THELOGICALINDIAN - Yesterday September 19 2024 hundreds of hackers spent the day at Pier 70 in San Francisco alive on projects in hopes to win the Disrupt SF Hackathon In this antagonism hackers accept to actualize a fun and artistic drudge in 24 hours the admirable award-winning for the antagonism was 5000 USD forth with tworunnerup prizes
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The champ of the 2015 Disrupt SF Hackathon is QuickActions. This drudge is a basic button that allows users to examination links and use shortcuts, amid added things. Essentially, QuickActions adds account to blow awning applications by giving users added options back aerial over assertive things on their touchscreen devices. QuickActions uses Android Overlays and appearance from absolute Android apps; this app will be accessible in the Google Play Store in the abreast future.
Quick Actions got the admirable prize, which includes a $5000 check, but two added absorbing apps affective the runner-up positions. PitchPal helps users advance accessible speaking by recording and transcribing speech. Additionally, PitchPal provides users with analytic advice and acknowledgment apropos recorded speech, which can absolutely advice users advance their speaking skills. Harvest landed in the additional agent up position. This app is aimed at allowance farmers anticipate crop accident by audition baptize accent in crops. Harvest is a adapted point and shoot camera appliance with a specialized clarify replacing the aboriginal bittersweet filter. The app amount beneath than $50 to build, and it can be installed on accessories that are able to fly on drones, planes, and added aeriform devices.
In accession to audition baptize stress, Harvest has a web app that processes pictures taken with the camera app and credibility out “hotspots,” acceptance users to clue the bloom and advance of their crops over time.
This hackathon is a admission accident for the Tech Crunch Disrupt conference, a three-day accident focused on how technology can accommodate industry and culture. The appointment starts on Monday, September 21 and will run until Wednesday, September 23. There will be abounding speakers from several altered bodies in the startup industry, including assembly from CloudFlare, Dropbox, and Telegram. Snoop Dogg will accomplish an actualization on Monday with Ted Chung; the duo will accord a allocution titled, “A New Perspective on Ability and Industry with Snoop Dogg and Ted Chung.”
The aboriginal day of Tech Crunch Disrupt will affection a allocution about Bitcoin as well. Starting at 9:45 on Monday morning, Wences Casares of Xapo, Nathaniel Popper of the New York Times, and Bobby Lee of BTCChina will bear the talk, “Is It Time To Stick a Fork In Bitcoin?”
A General Admission admission for the Tech Crunch Disrupt appointment amount $2995, and will defended attendees an “All-inclusive appointment canyon for all three days.”
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