In a few short weeks the largest Mobile App Hackathon, ever is coming to Hong Kong: AngelHack Fall 2013.
Over 30 cities and 6,000 developers will join in to build stronger developer ecosystem around the world.
What makes AppHACK the best hackathon series on the planet?
- Developer bootcamps to teach Android and iOS development.
- 100’s of developers and designers at the event for you to work with.
- 50% discount for all developers/designers who solve our riddle below.
- Incentives throughout the event to encourage teams helping one another.
- $100’000’s in sponsor prizes.
- Fun toys and games spread throughout the venue.
- Great food and lots of it.
- Coding through the night (with pillows).
- Top teams entering the HACKcelerator pre-accelerator program.
- Sponsor awards, breakout sessions, and post-event parties
- Mandatory Demos. Banning of slide decks. And code reviews to ensure winning teams are within the rules.
Never been to a hackathon? Here’s what you can expect:
Grand Prize
Acceptance into Spring 2014 HACKcelerator program
HACKcelerator is a global pre-accelerator program designed to help top hackathon teams turn their hacks into market ready products. If you win AppHACK you win our full support for whatever product you’d like to have us help you develop. You’re in. We’ll provide you the platform for connecting with amazing mentors and a series of events in Silicon Valley to connect with investors and media. This will be your shot at glory. Learn more on HACKcelerator program here.
What should I build?
We want to see you build a mobile application. It can be done in HTML5, on iOS, Android, Appcelerator’s Titanium etc etc. What matters is that it’s mobile first. This is where we see the majority of opportunities right now and a place where your simple hackathon project can have impactful applications. Feel free to connect your app to wearables, in-car devices, and other hardware integrations that are being formed today.
Who should attend?
Junior developers looking to improve their skills, senior developers looking to jive with budding members of the community, designers of all skill-sets, and serious entrepreneurs that can add value to teams. Never built on Android or iOS before? Fear not, we’ll do our part to have teachers on hand throughout the hackathon to help you get going with these new and needed skills.
How is it judged?
We’re doing things a little different this time. Say goodbye to power-points. That’s right, no power-points whatsoever. To present at AppHACK you must DEMO. Period dot the end. And everyone who wants to win AngelHack will have to demo their product for at least 30 seconds. Projects will be judged on a combination of originality, technological difficulty, viability and usefulness. We want to see new ideas, ideas that are useful, ideas that solve big problems, ideas that could potentially make money and ideas that get people excited.
Free Shuttle Bus
FREE shuttle bus (depart from Admiralty* to Cyberport at 8:30, 19 October 2013 )
*Meeting point at the entrance of McDonalds’ restaurant (facing Drake Street), ground floor of Admiralty Centre, Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A), Hong Kong.
FREE shuttle bus (depart from Cyberport 3 to IFC Central at 17:45, 20 October 2013)
*Meeting point at the lobby of Cyberport 3.
Register here for the 19-20 October event!
Here is AngelHack founder Greg Gopman talking about startups:
