Microsoft Ventures in India has organized “HackDay” event in Bangalore. Developers were invited to hack on APIs of six companies, namely Cloudinfra, Frrole, Native5, Nanobi, NowFloats and SupportBee. Developers got access to the latest and most innovative technologies being developed by these companies. All the company co-founders were around to help and advise the hackers.
Our objective was to enable developers with working knowledge of HTML5 to create applications across platforms. Over the course of 6 hours, Native5 Platform successfully enabled three group of developers, not just to create but deploy applications on desktop and mobile, said Kunal Abhishek, Co-Founder, Native5.
A total of 17 teams were formed. None of the teams were seen dropping out or slacking off at any time. Including a short lunch break, the teams were hacking non-stop till 6 pm after which they presented their hacks to a panel of judges. Each hack was evaluated on the following criteria technology, design, value proposition, inspiration and completeness. Finally, after several rounds of debate, the judges picked up five winning hacks while a sixth almost made the cut.
Ravi Narayan, Director, Microsoft Ventures in India, said, It looks we have found a very effective grassroots engagement model to work with the developers and start-ups and plan to do this on a regular basis.
Microsoft Ventures gave out a Nokia Lumia 520 handset to each of the winning teams, while HasGeek announced free DroidCon tickets and StartupWeekend gave away two free tickets.
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Microsoft Ventures hosts “HackDay†in Bangalore
