We hosted our first Hackathon and we are so excited to share our experience with you!

We developed two big challenges with our friends from Qrvey, a fronted one and a backend one, it was a joint effort that took us two weeks and a half and the hard work of six developers, three for each challenge.

In order to put you in context, we are going to explain each challenge:

Frontend Challenge: Sound House
To develop an application that consists in a music player which gets the available resources from YouTube, by scoping lyrics or audio-only videos.

Backend Challenge: Scrum Bot
To developers a Telegram Bot which will allow to execute commands to create Scrum as Trello Board, based on the Issues from a GitHub’s public repository.

The Hackathon started Saturday morning and it ended Sunday night, it took place in one of our offices in Barranquilla and we had over 20 participants. Throughout the weekend we had a lot of food, candy, beer, music, video games, and last but not the least, we had amazing prizes for the winners. There were 3 winner for each challenge, the first place got a Nintendo Switch, the second place got a drone with WiFi and the third place got a gift card.

The invitation was for high profiled developers that were located in Barranquilla or cities nearby and who considered themselves Ruby js, Node js, Angular js or React js awesome devs, each competitor had the chance to pick only one of these technologies and show what they were made of. For the frontend challenge the winner was the Angular js technology and for the backend challenge the winner was the Node js technology.

Our idea was to consolidate and empower the tech culture in Barranquilla and it was a success; We were all winners, we made friends and worked together in a positive learning environment, we can’t wait for the next Hackathon.

Thanks to all our participants and our team for making this event possible.

As you know we love coding, new technologies, engaging with communities and leaders. Our idea is to consolidate and empower the tech culture in Barranquilla. We know there are amazing developers with enormous talent in the city and we want to summon them to participate in this quest. Are you ready for the adventure?

Throughout the years we have organize a lot of cool stuff, but this is definitely one of the most exciting things we have organized so far! Hackathon 20.18 was constructed so high profiled developers have the opportunity to engage in a challenge that could prove his/her abilities in software development. In this event we will test backend & frontend devs and we’ll have a special challenges for each one.

Do you love Javascript? Are you a Node, Ruby, React, or Angular developer?

This time you’ll have the chance to pick only ONE technology so you can show what you are really made off. There are a total of six prizes for the Hackathon, three for each challenge. If you ever wanted to spend your weekend just coding, eating pizza and going home with an Nintendo Switch this is for you.

Prizes for the Backend challenge:

1st place: Nintendo Switch.
2nd place: Quadcopter Drone with WiFi .
3rd place: $150.000 Falabella Gift Card.

Prizes for the Frontend challenge:

1st place: Nintendo Switch.
2nd place: Quadcopter Drone with WiFi .
3rd place: $150.000 Falabella Gift Card.

What you need to know:

Hackathon 20.18. One frontend challenge & one backend challenge. This is not a team quest. This is a one player game. Winner takes it all. Starts on Saturday morning and ends Sunday afternoon (sleep over not required).

Who can participate:

Any Ruby, Node, React or Angular developer who is willing to show off their amazing abilities. Limited seats.

When:

September 29th & 30th are the dates you must mark in your calendar!

Where:

Calle 77B#57-103. Green Towers. Of. 1604. Ideaware’s meeting rooms