Battle Hack NYC - The Hottest Hack On The Planet 22 July 2013
The Hack
America’s first Battle Hack was held this weekend (July 20th and 21st) in New York’s most awesome Co-Working Space Alley NYC. Over 20 projects were presented on Sunday and our First Prize winner is DeadDropAR.
5 judges rated 4 categories (PayPal, SendGrid, Twilio, Nokia) and had difficulty locating the winner due to the great quality of the projects that got created in 24 hours.
Much tweet love was given to our Energy Bar and Massages as they rejuvenated developers and designers through the night. Refreshing Mojitos, endless beer, and big NYC eats from Bauhaus, Katz and Elaine’s brought hackers out in droves.
The Winners
- 1st Prize: DeadDropAR
- 2nd Prize: PalPay
- 3rd Prize: oneTroop
DeadDropAR
Team DropDeadAR won for their application that puts PayPal payments in both physical and artificial reality locations with virtual dead drops. The application allows a user or a business to leave money (virtually) in any location for someone to find using a mobile phone or Google Glass. The user needs to go to the location and identify the item to which the money is attached in order to pick it up and used a cutting edge augmented reality technology as well as PayPal to transfer the money.
Brian and Yosun will represent New York at BattleHack’s World Finals in Silicon Valley and we can’t wait for another demonstration of their coding abilities.
Other winners
Additionally PayPal and the great partners gave out the following extra awards:
Most Hardcore (hacked through the night): Emergency Location Aware Notifications
Best Progress So Far: GetFreshNY
Best Idea So Far: Clutch.io
Had a great time at #battlehack thanks @Paypal @PayPalDev It was a great event! Now its time to hack the Raspberry PI on to the QuadCopter!
— Bryan Berger (@bryanberger) July 22, 2013
Thanks
We had a lot of fun in New York and want to thank our attendees for showcasing their relentless hack skills!
A special shout-out goes to Alley NYC who provided us with a great location that offered enough space and infrastructure for a hackathon.
Our PayPal Developer team thank you for your dedication and for the awesome apps created. We can’t wait to see the next Battle in New York City.
Also a big thanks to our partners Twilio, SendGrid and Nokia.
Finally a shout out to Nick (SendGrid’s Evangelist) who celebrated his 21 birthday at the event.
As the crowd enjoyed our video so much we’re happy to repost it over here:
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