the hollywood hackathon experience
this last weekend (nov 5-6, 2011), i participated in my very first hackathon at hollywood hack day. i was fortunate to team up with friends pydanny, audrey roy, and randall degges. we spent the weekend laser focused on our project and in a span of 48 hours we were able to concept, develop, and launch audition rocket, an easy platform for online auditions. casting directors can create casting calls and actors can audition online with their webcam.
we used the opentok api, and through our hard efforts we won their "best use of api" award which is a kindle fire. i'm honored to win the prize, and it shall be interesting to figure out how we split the device four ways. but seriously, it was a great productive weekend and i'll be much more eager to participate in future events that allow me to flex my creative and developer muscle in a short course of a weekend.