Curious Hackathon #2
Theme
This second Hackathon, each dev team of two or three teamed up with a business person to create a unique idea and develop a prototype in one day. There was no restrictions on ideas or platform however at the 4:30 cutoff, each team must present a 5minute business presentation and a 5minute demo.
Results
Team Red - DevScout (Winner)
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DevScout is an application designed to fit developers with their companies, avoiding the usually annoying recruiting process. Devscout is designed as a mobile platform to be accessed by developers and interfaces with both Github and Twitter for developers and companies respectively. Companies are shown a list of developers ranging in skills close to what they searched for and developers have a chance to showcase their codebases directly at companies.
The application is developed using ruby on rails and uses the jQuery mobile UI for a pretty mobile interface.
Visit the website here
View the source code at Github
Team Blue - PicsCount
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Pics count is a android based picture game. Contestants take photos of billboards of popular companies such as McDonalds, Coca-Cola, etc. Contestants can receive points and prizes based on wether these images fit the tags of these advertisers. This information can in then turn be sold back to the advisers.
PicsCount uses Android and Ruby on Rails.
View the android source code at Github
View the source code at Github
Team Green - ChickenScRatch
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ChickeScRatch is an e-prescribing tool for doctors. Unlike most e-prescribing tools where both the doctor and the pharmacy have to be using the same e-prescribing tools, ChickenScRatch is able to allow the doctor to prescribe to any pharmacy that allows prescribing via Fax Machine, allowing the doctor to prescribe from anywhere. ChickenScratch is also optimized for mobile devices, allowing the doctor to prescribe right from his mobile phone.
ChickenScRatch is written in Node.js and CoffeeScript and interfaces with DocRapter
View the source code here Github