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The Next Web: Kings of Code Hack Battle, New York
After the wonderful experience we had being part of TNW Hackathon in Amsterdam earlier this year, last week, I had the opportunity to help developers battle it out at the Kings of code Hack Battle in New York.
Organized by the folks at The Next Web in conjunction with the TNW Conference, the Hack Battle was a lot of fun. Some good quality hacks were produced in less than 36 hours. What was really impressive was the energy and the enthusiasm of the developers. One example in lieu of that is that bulk of the developers ended up hacking all night. Lots of new faces as well, which is always a great sign. You get to help developers who have never been to a hackathon. Always exciting.
Also, kudos to the TNW team for securing an amazing venue space which allowed hackers to stay overnight and do what the do best - write incredibe code!
Quick Look
On 6-7 December 2014, TNW hosted the Kings of Code Hack Battle at The Alley in NYC as part of the TNW Conference.
Over 80 developers attended.
Hosted at The Alley NYC, a popular co-working space in midtown New York.
Over 15 hacks were built in less than 36 hours.
3 Apps were built using APIs from the Mashery network
2 hardware hacks were built using the Intel Edison development boards.
Mashery/Intel Edison Hacks built
FollowPlants - A hardware hack built using the Intel Edison development board that lets you track water/nutrients, temp control for your plants.
TindHouse - A mobile app that allows users to search for housing, using the HomeFinder API then quickly judge interest based on user criteria.
FoodLoop web app A mobile app that lets you order food based on your dietary and nutrition preferences, using the Food Essentials API.
Complete list of Hacks built on Hacker League
Huge shoutout to the TNW team (am looking at you - Anne, Sam, Dennis & rest of the Hack Battle Team) for putting up a fantastic show.
HackRU: A Scarlet Night of Hacking
Last week, Rutgers University hosted their fourth bi-annual hackathon. Definitely one of my favorite college hackathons. Quite appropriate for it to be the last hackathon of the official MLH season. I like how HackRU stands out with its 24 hour hackathon format, while 36 hour seems to be popular among other colleges. I feel like 24 hours is just the perfect time needed to keep the balance between aspiration and keeping it real. It leaves you with no time to waste and you get right down on the money. At the end of it, you are absolutely exhausted, but hold your head hight with immense pride and gratitude. That’s what a hackathon is about.
Kudos to HackRU for trying out something different and delivering beautifully - from amazing hacks, to keeping the developers well fed, to keeping the energy alive at the giant Athletics Center.
Quick Look
Over the weekend of 12-13 April 2014, Rutgers University hosted their fourth HackRU.
Held at the giant Athletics Center at Rutgers campus, HackRU was a lot of fun and witnessed some really cool hacks built over just 24 hours by students not just from various colleges, but even high school and middle schools!
Over 500 developers attended from various schools and colleges.
5 Mashery hacks built using APIs from the Mashery network, including Food Essentials, Rotten Tomatoes, and USA TODAY APIs.
Over 75 hacks were built in less than 24 hours.
Science fair style demos for the 75+ hacks built. Top 10 got to demo.
The student organizers did a great job at planning and executing yet another successful HackRU.
Best hack built using Mashery API
What Am I Eating?: An Android app that lets you get more details on the food items you’re consuming. Using the Food Essentials API, the app allows you to scan the bar code of a food item and then gives you nutrition information on its ingredients. “What am I Eating” was liked by all the judges and caught everyone by surprise with how useful and polished the app was. The fact that it was built by a solo developer in high school, who was at her first ever hackathon was just icing on the cake.
Complete list of hacks built at HackRU here on Hacker League
Fun Food Hackathon
What is the difference between the "sell by date" of a food and it’s actual expiration date? Can I purchase fruits and vegetables grown in my community and collaborate with local farmers to grow foods my family needs? The Future of Food Hackathon assembled the food, tech, and Bay Area community to develop applications to answer these questions and improve our food system. Over 200 attendees gathered at the Tagged headquarters for this two day event.
Developers, designers, and participants entered the event treated to a delicious breakfast of muffins and scones. Company presentations proceeded the meal with speakers from Yummly, The Orange Chef Company, and Mashery’s very own Neil Mansilla introduced the FoodEssentials, FoodCareLabs, PeerIndex, Klout, Active, and SportsData APIs. Hackathon participants eagerly waited their turn to present ideas in the pre-pitch session. A loud “Gong" ended each participants pitch. Teams were formed and hacking commenced and continued to midnight.
The second day opened with a Yoga session attended by organizers Timothy West, Wayne Sutton, and others. A series of panels addressing our food system continued throughout the Hackathon. Contestants listened to the talks for ideas to implement into their apps. Final demos began in the afternoon with the reintroduction of the “Gong" to signal the end of each presentation.
21 apps were submitted and the Mashery prize (Molecular Gastronomy Kit and Google Nexus 7 tablets) was awarded to an awesome six person team that created Edibly, a mobile application that helps people waste less food by providing users with real expiration dates. The team transformed their phones into food barcode scanners and invoked the FoodEssentials API for food content information. The teams that created BuenaMia! (helping users feel good through healthy foods and active events), Food Trk (improving the Food Truck experience), and Project Grellin (healthy restaurant finder) used the FoodEssentials, FoodCareLabs, and Active APIs.
The overall winner was FoodForest, a web application allowing users to form communities and contribute resources for growing and sharing food. A surprise musical "food rap" performance from Airbnb Chef Sam Lippman entertained the crowd at the conclusion of the event.
Novartis Mobile Health Challenge - San Francisco
Every thirty seconds, someone is hospitalized for heart failure. With more than one million cases occurring each year, each costing the health care industry about $26,000, helping patients manage living with heart failure is a pressing need. Just as important is helping caregivers - family members, loved ones and even professional care takers - manage the stresses that come along with supporting these patients.
The team from Corgil won the Mashery prizes, three Jawbone Ups
The first ever Novartis Mobile Health Challenge, held this past weekend in San Francisco, set out to address these needs. More than 175 developers spent the weekend applying their deep technical knowledge and experience, working side by side with physicians well versed in the challenges heart failure presents, to help dramatically improve the lives of millions of people. The event opened Friday night with extensive background presented by the Novartis team, including two touching videos that featured real patients and their care takers describing their daily lives. Their mandate in hand, teams began forming and went straight to work defining their solutions. This intense focus on solving for specific problems differentiated the Novartis Mobile Health Challenge from your average hackathon. While many of the 46 solutions presented on Sunday night bore a resemblance to on another, the means by which each of them attacked the problem showed genuine creativity. Novartis awarded six prizes:
The Physician Sweetener Prize went to Amori for building a fantastic app focused on improving the physician experience when working with patients newly diagnosed with heart failure.
Fifth place went to Heart ToDo - an app that provided physician-driven task lists for patients and caregivers to follow each day in order to maintain their health.
Fourth place went to Win At Life, which gamified the work of health maintenance and makes the experience less intimidating for the patient.
The third place winner, Hearts Connected, kept it simple, relying on SMS and automated phone calls to help patients - who are often not technically savvy - respond to the questions their doctors ask daily while tracking the results.
The beautifully designed Twogether App took second place, helping caregivers maintain vital contact with their loved ones while remotely monitoring their health.
The grand prize of $15,000 went to Sense.ly++ for developing an avatar-based app taking advantage of text to speech and voice recognition to make it easier for patients to enter their information while speaking with a more human-feeling interface.
In all, 10 of the final projects used Mashery-powered APIs from Active.com, Food Essentials, World Weather Online and GoodRX. The teams all found a tremendous amount of value in the data returned by these APIs and took advantage of them to build apps that educated users while making their lives easier.
The best use for these APIs came from Corgil - a mobile app that kept track of the tasks patients needed to take each day while communicating progress back to care givers. What really set them apart was the small UI pieces that demonstrated to the patient why each task was necessary, giving them a small boost each time they checked one off with the intent of encouraging healthier behavior. Their team won four Jawbone Ups for their efforts.
Members of the Novartis team celebrate with the event's winners.
Congratulations to everyone who won and everyone who participated! It was awesome to witness amazing hacks that demonstrate exciting technologies, but it was all the more inspiring to know that these tools can be used to positively impact the lives of millions of people.