HAPI Hack Weekend is a hackathon focused on leveraging APIs to create cool new software. The event brings together designers and developers for a chance to win prizes, create products and meet talented people.
Event Overview
The event starts Saturday, August 13 when attendees will hear lightning talks from leading companies on how to use their API. Following the talks, attendees can then pitch ideas and form teams for building their apps.
Attendees will spend the rest of the weekend hacking on their ideas. The event will conclude Sunday afternoon with demo presentations, judging, and awards.
| Saturday, August 13 | |
| 09:00am - 10:00am | Registration |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Kick-Off |
| 10:15am - 11:15am | API Overviews |
| 11:15am - 11:30am | Idea Pitches / Team Formation |
| 11:30am - 11:59pm | Hackety Hack |
| Sunday, August 14 | |
| 09:00am - 3:00pm | Hackety Hack |
| 03:00pm - 05:00pm | Demos |
| 05:00pm - 05:30pm | Awards / Wrap-Up |
Cost
The event is FREE but space is limited, so register asap!
Prizes
Each API company participating in the event will offer a prize for the best app that uses their API. Winners for each prize will be chosen by the API that provided it.
Here is a list of the participating APIs including information about what the API does and what prize is offered for using it:
TokBox |
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| Prize: $500 |
| Description: OpenTok is a free and flexible video streaming API for integrating live, group video chat in to your websites and mobile applications. |
| Link: opentok.com |
Box |
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| Prize: $500 |
| Description: The Box Platform enables you to integrate our cloud storage and content management features into your application, allowing your users to easily access, manage, and share the content they create from anywhere. |
| Link: box.net/developers |
Twilio |
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| Prize: AR.Drone |
| Description: Twilio provides a service for building scalable, reliable telephone and SMS apps via simple HTTP APIs. |
| Link: twilio.com |
Mashery |
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| Prize: A JAMBOX |
| Description: Log-in to our open data commons of dozens of RESTful APIs, including Klout, Rdio, Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, and more. Build better apps with the Mashery API Network. |
| Link: developer.mashery.com/apis |
Envolve |
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| Prize: $200 |
| Description: Envolve is customizable text chat API for integrating private and group chat in to your websites and web applications. |
| Link: envolve.com/api |
Embed.ly |
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| Prize: An Apple TV |
| Description: Embedly provides a powerful API to convert posted links into embedded videos, images, and rich article previews from anywhere on the web. |
| Link: embed.ly |
Face.com |
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| Prize: A JAMBOX (with chain!) |
| Description: Face.com is a technology company with best-in-class facial recognition software. They offer a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos; this is a robust, free, REST API to allow third-party developers to create their own original apps that leverage their facial recognition technology, algorithms, and database of tagged faces. |
| Link: developers.face.com |
Rapleaf |
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| Prize: $5000 in free Rapleaf data |
| Description: Rapleaf's Personalization API provides rich demographic and interest data about email addressees in real-time. A special HAPI Hack API key will be given out to give free access to all of our premium data in addition to our always free age, gender, and location data. We are interested in projects that use our data in creative and novel ways to help build a more personalized web. |
| Link: www.rapleaf.com |
Socialize |
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| Prize: $500 prize |
| Description: Socialize is a social RESTful API that makes your app more engaging. Easily add community features that keep your users coming back. |
| Link: www.getsocialize.com |
Tinypay |
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| Prize: 3D Bloggie HD Camera |
| Description: Simple E-commerce API for selling or buying both physical and digital items. No registration of your users required - directly authenticate with PayPal only. Make money on every sale. |
| Link: www.mashape.com/apis/tinypay.me |
YouTube |
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| Prize: Google CR-48 Chromebook |
| Description: The YouTube APIs and tools enable you to integrate YouTube's video content and functionality into your website, software application, or device. Using the data API, you can perform searches, upload videos, create playlists, and more. Using the player API, you can configure basic settings, drive the player interface, or even build your own player controls. |
| Link: code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html |