41. How we judge the hacks
• Working Prototype
• Solves a real problem
• Great User Experience
• Uses data or technology in a unique and
interesting way
• Uses technology or data from Yahoo!
• X-factor!
Thank previous speaker, Introduce Crew on Stage, Previoushacku participants?
How does this word resonate with you?
Jargon File
Often misrepresented in the media
So what is a hacker?
Hack U - Bring the concept from our internal Hack Days and Open Hack days to Universities
Find solutions to the problems!
Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. • To solve an interestin Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. • To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.g problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround.
Random Hacks of Kindness / Raj Kumar Hirani / Aamir Khan / Anna Hazare
Auto Evalo - Category: Local relevance, Crowd sourcing - Siddarth S, SaileshMukil of CEG - an app that helps people know the price point to start bargaining when boarding an auto in Chennai using crowd-sourced data.Yahoo Just Dial - Category: Social cause and relevance to IndiaPankaj Kumar and Janardhan Reddy - IIT Madras. A voice based just-dial like service to cater to illiterate people to find information about services around them.http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/10/heated-hacku-at-iit-madras/
Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
Select kilometers FROM geo.distance where place1="bangalore" AND place2="chennai"
Record screencastDo not depend on internetKeep your stuff ready in browser
Tell us about your progress
In our fourms / groups – developer.yahoo.com/forums
Y! is interested in hacks around digital media, advertising, personalization, big data, local, social, mobile…
Be ready to play with new technologies
Hacks are not very complex. Lot of people think they have to finish the product in 24 hours! We have very cool building blocks todayUse them Play with new technologies
Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
Mashing up things that already work.
You have only 24 hours. You have to show what you have done.