2010 Fall Hack U intro presentation
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Transcript of 2010 Fall Hack U intro presentation
Welcome to Hack U
You hack
You present
We ruminate
You win
What’s our vector, Victor?
• Hack for 24hrs• Break for food, sugar, caffeine, and
conversations• Present your hack• Win!• Sleep like a victorious baby
Nitty gritty
• Up to 4 people on a team• 24hr coding period• IP & Code - you own it• Register your hacks:
developer.yahoo.com/hacku• Log into Yahoo! to edit your hacks
later• Schedule on the Hack U site:
developer.yahoo.com/hacku
So, who is this “Hacker”?
A hack is
a good ideabrought to
life
And good ideas come from …
• Noticing something broken and thinking of a fix
• Building something you’d use yourself• Automating something you’re too busy
to do manually• Finding a place where the world sucks
and figuring out how to make it better• Paying attention to local trends: mobile,
video, social, local, geo, gams, etc.
Examples
Shazel
• Anonymous, collaborative sound generation
• 1st place, CMU, Fall 2010• 2 person team• HTML5 canvas, Web sockets,
Node.js• Live demo allowed audience to
participate
Regex Battle
• Asteriods-like game where the goal is to build a given regular expression by shooting flying characters.
• 1st place, UW, Spring 2010• Websockets + SVG + self-recorded
sound effects == awesome
Rock My World
• iPhone app that displays local concerts
• 1st place, UC San Diego, Spring 2010
Search Wars
• Identify the most popular site-specific search terms against an opponent.
• Live demo• 1st place, UT Austin, Spring 2010
Hacking strategies
• Brainstorm, but converge quickly, and keep the best details of the rejected ideas handy
• Scope the work so the end is in sight: set an easy goal, and an ambitious one.
• Divide work by team member strengths.• Ask for help!• Minimize the amount of work by using
free and open source tech.• Don’t forget to Ctrl+S!
Demo Strategies
• “I swear it was just working...” - have a Plan B (screenshots, video, etc.)
• No static slides - leave PowerPoint for marketing.
• Practice your pitch a few times; make it easy on the ears, concise and funny.
• Make a bang: demo what’s most exciting and cool about your project.
• Tell us how you’d like the project to grow.
Surely Yahoo! can help
• Of course (but don’t call us Shirley)• Yahoo! free and open source projects
– YUI– YQL– APIS: Flickr, Answers, del.icio.us, Fantasy
Sports, Fire Eagle, GeoPlanet, Placefinder, Placemaker …
• developer.yahoo.com
Hack resources
• github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox• wait-till-i.com• isithackday.com/hacks• gist.github.com/ydn• developer.yahoo.com/hacku/
pasthacks.html• talks.php.net/show/hacku• flickr.com/search/?q=hacku
Roger that, Roger?(translation: any
questions?)