Housing held its first-ever internal Hackathon, a 30-hour marathon of coding and innovation, from noon on September 26 until 6 PM on September 27. In between the snacking and napping, our teams came up with some real amazing pieces of technology. Here’s a list of some of our favorites:
Muse by team Radiant
– Namandeep, Shubham, Pawan and Saurabh Goel.
Muse is a plug-and-play broadcasting radio station. It allows users to create their own radio stations via a wifi network and keep adding songs as they go. After a few bug patches and feature enhancements, they plan to take it further and make it open source and platform independent.
Github Instant by team Hackathon1
– Nishant Dalmia, Saurav Swaroop, Pranav and Ankit
Github Instant is a techie dream come true, a tool that allows you to quickly search and navigate through a code base. The platform also has a preview feature for source files. Currently only functional with public Github repositories, the team plans to make it applicable to private repositories using the Github API.
“A small social network” by team Incognito
– Kishore, Chirag, Devendra and Tarun
This team of front-end developers came up with a product designed to improve Housing on social and productivity levels. The platform is designed to facilitate internal communications through a message board supporting images, videos and codes as well as text on which users can post. The interface, inspired by medium.com also hosts an array of features including comments, upvotes, feeds and announcements.
Zero Protocol by Zero Protocol
– Rahul Yadav, Kailash Bagaria, Ashwini Meshram, and Dron Rathore
Another potential contribution to Housing’s internal communications, Zero Protocol lets users connect via various channels, post and promote status updates, and comment. The tech stack relies on web-sockets for real-time notifications of post and channel updates via a chrome extension. Login is integrated through a layer of node server, and the main app was built using Ruby on Rails, MySql, and Backbone.js.
Blpoolers by HeisenBug
– Aziz, Sourabh Rohilla, Gulshan Gaurav and Shrey Jain
This mobile app promotes economic and environmental responsibility among commuters – at Housing, and then the world! – through a map-based interface that lets users quickly and efficiently find rides to and from the office.
Dhwani by Equinox
– Pooja Dubey, Tushar Kant and Hemant Mundra
Dhwani enables transfer of data neither through wifi nor NFC-enabled chips, but through sound — at ultrasonic frequencies! It encodes and transmits your data above 22k Hz, which is inaudible to humans. It can work across devices and browsers – so all you need is a device with a receiver and a speaker and you’ll be good to go!
With such enthusiasm that we experienced this time, we are looking forward to host more of such events to promote innovation and creativity.
