Wfoodsharing.de is an online platform that saves and distributes surplus food in Germany and Austria. It is managed by the Foodsharing association and was founded on December 12, 2012. On foodsharing.de individuals, retailers and producers can offer or collect food that would otherwise be thrown away. This service is completely free, and functions thanks to volunteer work. The project's goal is to fight everyday food waste and to raise awareness about this problem in society.
WHospitality Club (HC) is a hospitality exchange service accessible via a website. The platform is a gift economy; hosts are not allowed to charge for lodging and are also not obligated to host. Hospitality Club implemented a reputation system, whereby guests can leave references for hosts and hosts can do it for guests as well. For added safety, members are encouraged to check each other's passports, although it rarely happens.
WJappy is a German social networking service. With over 1.5 million active users it ranked 16th of all German social networks in March 2013.
WQype was a Hamburg-based web 2.0 company centred on social networking and local reviews. They operated websites in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Italy and Brazil, and had approximately 22 million monthly unique European visitors.
WVirato was a search engine and aggregator for current news in Germany, which have achieved a high level of reach on the social web. The service bundles news from thousands of sources across the web. All articles are weighted and scored based on their distribution across social networking platforms; which is how this service is categorized as a social news service. Additional services in this category include, but are not limited to, Reddit oder Digg.
WVive is a members-only mobile video chat community. The company has offices in San Francisco, Berlin and Hannover. The company's mission statement is, "to provide a safe virtual community where individuals can meet other people to share skills and experiences".
WXING is a Hamburg-based career-oriented social networking site, operated by New Work SE
WYasni is a German people search engine, operated by yasni GmbH. It aggregates search results from external sources and is therefore a meta search engine.