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Inspiration from Insider Inc.’s seventh hack week

Gabrien Symons
Inside Business Insider
2 min readOct 13, 2021

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Hack to the Future: Work Smarter 2021
Insider’s seventh hack week, Hack to the Future: Work Smarter 2021

The folks on the Product and Tech teams here at Insider Inc. recently held our seventh hack week, Hack To The Future: Work Smarter 2021.

Our theme centered around hacking projects to help folks work smarter whether they be casual readers, editors, software engineers, or data analysts. By the end of the week team members had created over 40 projects!

There’s too many to list, so here’s a very brief glimpse at a few of the projects:

  • A React driven feed configuration manager
  • A11Y improvements for screen readers and keyboard navigation
  • An automated visual regression testing tool that adds comments to Jira tickets
  • A service using GraphQL to streamline requests for user data from multiple micro-services

To add some fun to the week I wrote a few hack week-inspired comics. Here’s part 1:

What are all the donuts for? I’m working smarter this week. Less trips to the kitchen.
Hack to the Future: Work Smarter, part 1

Keep a look out for part 2 and 3 of the comic coming soon!

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed a brief look into Insider’s hack week.

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