AngelHack Seattle 2015
Welcome to the Eighth season of AngelHack!
- Saturday, Jun 27 2015
- 09:00 AM PDT
- Seattle, Washington
Grand Prize: AngelHack HACKcelerator
An Exclusive invite to our HACKcelerator Program
Sponsored by Angelhack http://angelhack.com/hackcelerator/
Sponsor Prize: Amazon Web Services
- Challenge: As the IoT becomes more and more prevalent we're interested in seeing how people can connect IoT devices with AWS to collect data from previously unrecorded sources. What can you do with that data and what problems can you solve?
- Prize: $100 AWS Credits + AWS Technical Training ($600) + $80 credit for self-places labs + 1 month AWS support ($100)
- Amazon Fire TV Gamer Bundles (up to 5) with Fire Game Controller and Belkin HDMI cable for the team that best utilizes Amazon Web Services.
- Link: https://aws.amazon.com/activate/event/ah2015/
Sponsored by Amazon Web Services
Sponsor Prize: Clusterpoint
- Challenge: Build any web or mobile applications, which uses Clusterpoint Cloud as back-end database solution.
- Prize: Clusterpoint Global Competition -$10,000 will be awarded to the best team that utilizes the Clusterpoint Cloud as a backend database in their project built during an AngelHack hackathon. Winners will be announced within 1 week after the series end. Additionally, any participant who signs up for Clusterpoint will receive $2500 in Clusterpoint Cloud credits.
- Link: https://www.clusterpoint.com/events/angelhack/
Sponsored by Clusterpoint
Sponsor Prize: HP
- Challenge: Build any web, mobile, or IOT application that uses APIs from HP Haven OnDemand. APIs can be accessed via http://hpsw.co/Ms8i3N7 - all developers get a FREE account and API key, plus an increased hackathon quota. The winning app will be judged on the best and most innovative use of the Haven OnDemand APIs. Chaining multiple Haven OnDemand APIs is encouraged for more impressive outcomes.
- Prize: GoPro Hero 4 Silver Edition for each member of the winning team with an idolondemand.com account (up to 5x units max per team).
- Link: http://www.idolondemand.com/
Sponsored by HP Haven OnDemand
Sponsor Prize: IBM Bluemix
- Challenge: Create an app showing innovative use of Bluemix
- Prize: Winners will receive access to the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Start-ups with $12K in Cloud Credit and will be eligible for up to $120,000 of free IBM Cloud credit.
- Link: https://ibm.biz/angelhack2015
Sponsored by IBM Bluemix
Sponsor Prize: Pebble
- Challenge: Create an awesome hack using a Pebble smartwatch. This is typically in the form of a Pebble app alone but can also be integrated in other IoT projects.
- Prize: Pebble watches
- Link: https://developer.getpebble.com/sdk/
Sponsored by Pebble
Sponsor Prize: Respoke
- Challenge: Create an innovative application using the Respoke API. Info on getting started with Respoke can be found at: http://respoke.github.io/angelhack/
- Prize: (4) Tessel boards and add-on modules to the team that demonstrates the best use of the Respoke API's in their application.
Sponsored by Respoke
Sponsor Prize: Twitter
- Challenge: Build the most interesting thing with Twitter, with a bias towards mobile + Fabric platform
- Prize: (5) Beats headphones
- Link: https://dev.twitter.com
Sponsored by Twitter