Seven developers have emerged from last night's Twilio's hackathon to pitch their Twilio-based products in the hopes of winning up to $10,000 in prizes.
It seems every conference has a hackathon these days, an event in which developers band together at night and to create a new and hopefully useful product by the next day. Twilio's hackathon requires developers to use Twilio's application programming interfaces (APIs) and hack together a product for the next generation of Twilio-based companies.
The hackathon lasted from 8pm to 1am -- five hours of a lot of beer, pizza and telephony talk. Seven hopefuls will show their products to a panel of judges today including sponsors Salesforce, Dropbox and Appcelerator, as well as three secret Twilio employees. The winners will receive up to $10,000 in prizes such as 11 inch MacBook Air computers and an AR Droid.
The finalists are:
- PresenTweet: A product that gives you the power to send tweets during a presentation by attaching tweet commands as you move through slides.
- Yap.io: A conference-focused iPhone app that allows you to submit voice recorded questions to a presenter, who can then play the recording on stage and respond during the event.
- Sidebox: This app allows service industry employees such as plumbers, to text in a query about a job and receive customer information and outstanding balances.
- Qwestioned: Adds a voice option to question and answer focused websites.
- Betwext Talk: An app that allows you to send SMS messages between your browser and a phone.
- Custard: A platform that allows you to add a customer support call center to any website.
- SportsSignup.com Roll Call: A coach's best friend, this app sends notifications to teammates to see who will make it to the game.