The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
If you needed a hackathon in order to demonstrate a product idea, then that usually means in my experience that your weekly workflow doesn’t allow for room for suggesting new ideas.
Your task is to develop an algorithm that optimizes the way transport vehicles are loaded, based on real life data, to streamline the last mile delivery process for e-Commerce. The more precise technical specification of what data that will be provided and what your algorithm will have to perform will be made available on September 30th – when the practice period begins.
Official COVID-19 hackathon in Sweden. An initiative by The Swedish Government.
[Gui Cavalcanti], whose name you might recognize from MegaBots, got on a call with a medical professional in San Francisco and talked about respirators. The question being, can we design and deploy an open source version in time to help people?
So, how did our first hackathon for kids turn out? First of all, the kids had fun and so did we. Great success!
we added an optional theme of fixing things and called it "Fix It Week." We did this because we want to build a culture that celebrates both creating new things as well as fixing, reinventing and improving what we already have.
This distributed hackathon, taking place over the weekend of October 10th and 11th, will have chapters working out of our meetups all around the world, but you’re also free to work from home or your favorite coffee shop with other developers from anywhere in the world.
Hackup, a hackathon focused around trying new fun technologies, is coming to Uppsala on Sunday 4th October. The next event on Sunday 15th November will be focused on hacking up IBM Watson, their artificially intelligent super computer that famously won against human beings during the US TV show Jeopardy.
I stället arrangerade Kambi ett internt ”hackathon” i höstas, där utvecklare och tekniker samlades för att testa nya idéer. De hade redan tittat på Logstash och Elasticsearch som ett alternativ, och nu utvecklades en konfiguration så att Kambi kunde låta loggarna samlas in och sparas lokalt i varje datacenter men ändå söka igenom dem som en helhet.
And this is what we built during the hackathon: Pendel Panda an awesome app to encourage commuters (and people) to take the bus by making it as easy and pain-free as possible, and by providing a willing assistant to be with them every step along the way in the form a… grumpy panda bear.
The story about Hackaway — how we created a hackathon out of the ordinary.
Hackathons aren’t about the judging or the prizes. They are about hacking
YC Hacks was life-changing for me, in an incredible way. Better than any prize, this weekend showed me that I could do this. I could build and execute a concept. I could write code and create a beautiful design and it would work. I could make an entire web app come together without having to hire a developer or a designer.
What’s the best thing about our hackathon? We were able to build cool stuff and have a lot of fun at the same time! I hope hackathons will become a tradition in Netguru
david-bieber: I’ve written in the past about what a Code@Night is. And they’re wonderful. One of my favorite topics, really. People come to these things and they just code all night. Great experience. Tons of fun. Fruit. PacMan. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I tell people this all the time, and a pretty common... (via david-bieber)
PLEASE DON’T pitch a startup concept showing boring mockups and fancy power points. Because a hackathon should be all about hack and fun!
Antalet svenska hackathons ökar stadigt och nu börjar företag och organisationer se möjligheterna med att hacka sig själva. Så här fungerar hackathon-fenomenet ut och så kan du inspireras av metoden.
If you’ve ever attended a hackathon or hosted one yourself, you know that customer validation is likely key to winning along with product development. The business guys take care of customer validation and crafting a sustainable business model, while the developers crank out a working prototype.