This past weeked 500px hosted our very own, open to everyone, hackathon - Pixel Hack Day. The event was aimed to bring together the creative talent of Toronto, mainly software developers and designers, to create photo related hacks — small but functional apps that use one or more of the photo APIs.
The event started on Saturday morning and ran for 30 hours, ending at 5pm on Sunday, when all the developers and teams submitted and presented their hacks. We had over 60 people sign up, many participants formed teams.
Pixel Hack Day went great, I am really pleased with the number and the quality of hacks that were submitted, you can check them out at http://pixelhackday.com/hacks.php. The winning hacks are:
1st place: Pictur.me — an app to create mosaic from any uploaded image, using photos from 500px website.
2nd place: Brovisor — a tool to upload a photo of an item of clothing in your closet and get suggestions to complete your outfit.
3rd place: TweetBG — Connect TweetBG to your twitter account to update your twitter profile background image with a collage of photos from 500px.com
Also, Photo Quest, the winner for the best use of Kik API, received $1000 prize from Kik and $5000 in consulting services from Playground.
Other prizes included:
- 500px — Free 500px Awesome account for 1 year for all participants
- GelaSkins — $40 gift certificates to everyone who submitted a working hack
- Moo.com — free pack of cards to all participants
Below are some photos from the event:
Also, huge thanks to our sponsors:
Ryerson Digital Media Zone
Kik (kik.com is looking for developers in Waterloo)
Yellow Pages Group
Ross Rumbell Business Lawyers
Playground
Moo.com
GelaSkins (also looking for developers, in Toronto)
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Pixel Hack Day: recap
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