Icalia Lab’s Summer Hackathon
An inside look to our hack culture
On July 31st, Icalia Labs celebrated it’s third anniversary.
We wanted to do something amazing to commemorate our three years and since Icalia was something born out of a Hackathon we figured it would be a great idea to throw an internal Hackathon to celebrate. Also, we have a great team and we wanted to give them the opportunity to create, grow and build the future of Icalia Labs.
For our Hackathon we had three basic rules:
1) develop something related to Icalia Labs
2) your creation must reflect our core values: passion, communication, kindness and integrity (to some extent)
3) have a great deal of fun.
Hacker culture
Our hacker culture is very unique, so we encouraged and motivated everyone to participate and work on an idea. A week before the Hackathon, we send out a Typeform (so everyone could have a team) and we chatted about the possible product ideas over on Slack. Almost immediately team members from engineering, design, management and senior management (including our CEO and CTO) started to submit their amazing ideas.
The great thing about a Hackathon is that people that normally don’t work together, collaborate to create a great products. This year Daniel Lozano, Scarlett Garza, Ana Daniel and I worked on a project called Twenty One. Although on our daily jobs we don’t usually work together, we had a great time learning, designing and creating a great project.
The projects
Team 1: Recipeer
Recipeer is a mobile App that presents delicious recipes based on the ingredients you have available on your fridge.
Team 2: TwentyOne
TwentyOne is a simple iOS App for daily habit tracking.
Team 3: Guessit
Guessit is a mobile game to guess cartoons and movies, based on pictures, videos, questions and sounds.
Team 4: Playces
Playces is a Mobile App that curates places by making a “playlist” of experiences to be shared by users.
Team 5: Fili
Fili is a Web App for people to get money on exchange of social work or good deeds.
The winners
Idea: TwentyOne
Design: Recipeer
Execution: TwentyOne
Overall winner: TwentyOne
The results
At our recent Hackathon, we had 18 people (working in teams of 3–4 people) contributing with 5 ideas. Of those ideas, 4 are currently being developed.
It was an awesome weekend, and we’re excited to continue pushing Hackathon ideas to production over the next few months. Thanks to everyone for participating and submitting ideas! We can’t wait to see what our next Hackathon has in store!
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Lila Miller
Behavioral Psychologist, Happiness Manager at Icalia Labs, founder of Internet Sweet Internet and RconErre.
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