{"id":428,"date":"2013-06-16T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:44:44","slug":"hacking-the-hackathons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/hacking-the-hackathons\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking The Hackathons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first one was <a title=\"Startup Weekend Sofia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StartupWeekendSofia\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Startup Weekend Mobile Sofia<\/b><\/span><\/a><b> (Bulgaria)<\/b>,\u00a0held in Vivacom HQ, April 5-7. Great event with more than 120 participants eager to brainstorm and prototype ideas about the next cool mobile apps. It was <b>one of the best hackathons I\u2019ve been at<\/b>, not only in Bulgaria but worldwide. A lot of bright people and super productive engineers.<br \/>\nSomething that made me extremely happy is that the <b>most of the ideas were globally (and not locally) oriented<\/b> \u2013 something that wasn\u2019t typical in Bulgaria until recently. Let\u2019s hope that <b>this change in mentality will bring the Bulgarian startup community closer and closer to global success<\/b>.<br \/>\nI took the last chance in Friday to pitch an idea and decided to pitch it as a spin-off project from Imagga, about building mobile app(s) based on our prototype for <a title=\"Fashion Color Search\" href=\"http:\/\/colorslike.me\/asos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">color search in fashion<\/a>. How I pitched it is that we (<a title=\"Imagga\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagga.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imagga<\/a>) are ready to buy it after the hackathon and\/or eventually hire the people Later on it turned out that some of the jury members have perceived this as a very smart move from Imagga (kind of \u201chacking the system\u201d), but one that decreases the value of the whole project in the context of the event. I definitely don\u2019t agree with that and I\u2019d say our team was very motivated and passionate, because it really believes in the idea, and not because of eventual quick cash gains.<\/p>\n<p>Here are we, working on <b>ColorFit.me<\/b> it two consecutive\u00a0 days, brainstorming and hacking like crazy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/b39c86488fc5b9d334f93b064febcad7.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/b39c86488fc5b9d334f93b064febcad7.jpeg\" alt=\"ColorFit Team\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/b39c86488fc5b9d334f93b064febcad7.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/b39c86488fc5b9d334f93b064febcad7-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/b39c86488fc5b9d334f93b064febcad7-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did an amazing job, pushing prototypes on all <b>iPhone<\/b> (native), <b>Android<\/b> (Adobe Air wrapper), and <b>Windows Phone<\/b> (native). Here is a video of them in action<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10201211376273646\" data-width=\"625\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10201211376273646\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colorfitme\">ColorFit<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team also produced a wonderful presentation &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"ColorFit Presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/colorfit.me\/presentation\/#\/swsofia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/colorfit.me\/presentation\/#\/swsofia<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd we won! several prizes: <b>3rd place<\/b> based on the jury vote, and <b>2nd-3rd place<\/b> based on the audience vote. It\u2019s still a nice performance though we think we should have won 1st place in both, and also the special prize from Microsoft for prototyping the app also in their platform in less than a day.<\/p>\n<p>We are going to decide how to proceed with this in a few days and we do hope that you\u2019ll be able to \u00a0have access to the first versions of the apps in the app stores quite soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>The second hackathon<\/b> was <a title=\"Partnering Photo Hack Day 4 in Facebook HQ this April\" href=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/partnering-photo-hack-day-4-in-facebook-hq-this-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Photo Hack Day 4<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>,\u00a0<\/b>held in Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, April 6-7. The event went really good, and though we were partnering it remotely, it was quite busy for us -implementing several sugar features and tweaks based on customer demand<br \/>\nHappily, one of the teams that requested access to our APIs managed to integrate it in their hack \u2018The Roll\u2019, and it was featured as one of the eight honorable mentions in the <a title=\"The Next Web review of Photo Hack Day 5\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2013\/04\/08\/after-two-days-and-63-hacks-we-choose-the-best-from-aviary-and-facebooks-fourth-photo-hack-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Next Web review of the event<\/span><\/a>. Great job by the <a title=\"EyeEm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EyeEm<\/span><\/a> team working on it!<\/p>\n<p>There are a few more great hackathons coming in the next week(end)s \u2013 <a title=\"HackFMI\" href=\"http:\/\/hackfmi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HackFMI<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Space Apps Challenge Sofia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpaceAppsChallenge2013Sofia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2013 \u2013 Sofi<\/a>a<\/span>. What a month for startups and hackers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first one was Startup Weekend Mobile Sofia (Bulgaria),\u00a0held in Vivacom HQ, April 5-7. 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