Utopian Hackathon -- First 12 Hours of Hacking
After arriving in the fantastic villa yesterday, and after having slept almost enough, we were up and hackathoning away at 8AM local time with all the participants locally and internationally.
our hideout
If you somehow managed to miss the preperations and announcements of the bounties and Hackathon details, you can catch up here.
Internet? What Internet?
The morning was a bit of a challenge due to connectivity issues. The Internet in middle-of-nowhere Tuscany is unbearably slow and unreliable. Who would have thought? We tried a lot of tricks and tweaks but the Internet connection is simply too slow to allow anything resembling a Dtube or Dlive stream both on the local connection and our mobile broadband, that proved to be just as unstable.
We're deeply sorry for this, as it was our plan to stream everything (excluding naps). We'll continue to make efforts to bring you as much videos and photos from the Hackathon as possible, so stay tuned for updates!
Current Status
As the sun set over the beautiful hills of Tuscany, the guys are still hard at work. After taking a short "pool request" break, they got right back to work, energized and full of inspiration, fully focused on their respective projects.
Photo by @techslut
The hackathon is far from over, and we're all trying to conserve our strengths and coffee for the rest of the night.
Diego in the conference
Currently registered to take part in the Hackathon:
- Swapsteem iTradr by @aneilpatel, a companion application for Swapsteem.
- SteemGo by @kennybll, an advertising platform built on Steem.
- dPoll by @emrebeyler, a decentralized polling app for the Steem Blockchain.
- CryptoTransactionTracker by @lovenfreedom and iamstan, a wallet and transaction tracker for multiple currencies.
- SteemFileUpload by @dehenne and @mordark, the first true upload client for the Steem Blockchain.
- SteemWallet by @superoo7, a wallet for the Steem Blockchain.
- Steemkit by @genievot, a QR based steem app that allows certain operations.
- Git-Utopian-Contributor by @nothingismagick, @drsensor and @decebal2dac. An electron app providing an easy method to publish to Steem using Git commits as basis.
- steemlogs.info by @ecoinstant and @jackmiller, providing a new way accessing old data on the blockchain.
- Steem Event Publisher by @irelandscape, taking away heavy load from Steemd Nodes by providing an "on event" notification service for applications.
If you have a cool original idea of your own, it is not too late to register. Simply join our Hackathon Discord Channel and pitch your idea! If you're lucky, you might still find a hacker or two that have yet to join a project team.
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Woo Hoo!! I wish I could be there with all of you. Looks like great fun. I hope you're getting some work done there :))
That's the downside of having members all over the world. I believe that you and other people would enjoy the time there as we did during the hackathon and during the other activities. The location is beautiful and so to say, I can't be happier that I could be there.
You are gonna a quite engaging time. It there a provisions for feedbacks on any of the projects? What about active links to them as well.?There's yet an area I've seen #steem fully integrate with. Think it's time I brood about it. Thank you@utopian-io for the update.
Hi, we made a list of the links to all hackathon submissions. They are currently being reviewed and we will announce the winners soon. You can either find the list in our Discord also but I will paste the links below. Unfortunately, we saw that not all registered teams were able to submit their projects.
You are most welcome to check all the projects and leave your feedback.
Nice to put some face on steem usernames!
I envy your weather. The weather is rotten today over here...
Really cool event! Do I remember correctly when I say there was a live stream planned for this hackathon? Or is there any highlight video? I'd really like to know how the atmosphere was and catch a glimpse of the action. :-)
Hi, we planned the live streaming. Unfortunately, at the last moment, we realised that the local connection speed and stability were against the members and thus we would not have been able to make a smooth stream. There should, however, be some video highlights of the whole event in the upcoming days.
Understandable. Really looking forward to it! :-)