{"id":369,"date":"2013-06-20T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:41:58","slug":"seedhack-hacking-with-hackers-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/seedhack-hacking-with-hackers-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"SeedHack, hacking with hackers in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Georgi<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagga took part at exciting hacking event – SeedHack 4.0<\/a>, that was organized by SeedCamp in Google Campus London. Over 100 hackers from 17 countries participated and formed 16 teams. Imagga was one of the proud partners of the event including\u00a0BBC News Labs,\u00a0EyeEm,\u00a0Imagga,\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Getty Images,\u00a0Google,\u00a0HarperCollins,\u00a0Nokia,\u00a0Thomson Reuters\u00a0and\u00a0Stupeflix.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite busy month for\u00a0Imagga\u00a0– full with exciting events. Before going to London for SeedHack, we were in Berlin for Techcrunch Disrupt Europe<\/a>, in Dublin for WebSummit and then back to Berlin for Microstock Expo. Georgi and Georgi (our CTO and super talented ninja-developer) attended Seedhack and presented Imagga APIs. It was quite exciting as it happen to co-occur with the soft-launch of our new categorization API. We love developers and hackathons are totally the right place to be! Hackathons are hot for us not just as opportunity to spread the word about our APIs but to also hack and take active part in the events. We stay during the night, and we love it!<\/p>\n

API support from @imagga<\/a> at 2am in the morning! Thumbs up! #seedhack<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/iDgOT8C8q6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 sc_seedhack (@sc_seedhack) November 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s always great to have people excited about your product, specially developers. Lots of people came to talk to us. Actually five out of sixteen teams requested accounts and will further evaluated the APIs. One team integrated our auto cropping API, one team integrated the auto categorization API and a team played with our stock image search. In return we took advantage of the uber-cool Adnroid testing farm in Google Campus and tested our newest and greatest image organization app Sliki (sign up for early invite<\/a>). More on Sliki to follow in separate blog post, you will love what it can do for your personal photos.<\/p>\n

Hanging out with @imagga<\/a> at @campuslondon<\/a> #seedhack<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/PC37yWuHnz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 sc_seedhack (@sc_seedhack) November 10, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Partnering to events is great, but we are hackers as well and couldn\u2019t stay with crossed hands and just watch how other participants are having fun. Getty Images challenged us if we can distinguish between horse and donkeys and we\u2019ve been busy adjusting our classifier to take the challenge. It turned to be quite successful.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that 3 out of 5 short keynotes were actually about images. It\u2019s obvious images are playing key role in helping out startups communicate it\u2019s idea. More than that, image intensive startups are growing in number and we believe this is great fit for our image analysis APIs.<\/p>\n

\"Literatrip<\/a><\/p>\n

It feels great when a team utilizing your technology wins a prize. LiteraTrip<\/a> won 2nd and they used our StockPodium search API.<\/p>\n

See the projects that actually presented Sunday<\/p>\n