Utopian Hackathon -- First 12 Hours of Hacking

Hackathon

After arriving in the fantastic villa yesterday, and after having slept almost enough, we were up and hackathoning away at 8AM local time with all the participants locally and internationally.

Villa

our hideout

If you somehow managed to miss the preperations and announcements of the bounties and Hackathon details, you can catch up here.

Internet? What Internet?

The morning was a bit of a challenge due to connectivity issues. The Internet in middle-of-nowhere Tuscany is unbearably slow and unreliable. Who would have thought? We tried a lot of tricks and tweaks but the Internet connection is simply too slow to allow anything resembling a Dtube or Dlive stream both on the local connection and our mobile broadband, that proved to be just as unstable.

We’re deeply sorry for this, as it was our plan to stream everything (excluding naps). We’ll continue to make efforts to bring you as much videos and photos from the Hackathon as possible, so stay tuned for updates!

Current Status

As the sun set over the beautiful hills of Tuscany, the guys are still hard at work. After taking a short “pool request” break, they got right back to work, energized and full of inspiration, fully focused on their respective projects.

poolrequest

Photo by @techslut

The hackathon is far from over, and we’re all trying to conserve our strengths and coffee for the rest of the night.

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Diego in the conference

Currently registered to take part in the Hackathon:

Swapsteem iTradr by @aneilpatel, a companion application for Swapsteem.
SteemGo by @kennybll, an advertising platform built on Steem.
dPoll by @emrebeyler, a decentralized polling app for the Steem Blockchain.
CryptoTransactionTracker by @lovenfreedom and iamstan, a wallet and transaction tracker for multiple currencies.
SteemFileUpload by @dehenne and @mordark, the first true upload client for the Steem Blockchain.
SteemWallet by @superoo7, a wallet for the Steem Blockchain.
Steemkit by @genievot, a QR based steem app that allows certain operations.
Git-Utopian-Contributor by @nothingismagick, @drsensor and @decebal2dac. An electron app providing an easy method to publish to Steem using Git commits as basis.
steemlogs.info by @ecoinstant and @jackmiller, providing a new way accessing old data on the blockchain.
Steem Event Publisher by @irelandscape, taking away heavy load from Steemd Nodes by providing an “on event” notification service for applications.

hacking in lucca

If you have a cool original idea of your own, it is not too late to register. Simply join our Hackathon Discord Channel and pitch your idea! If you’re lucky, you might still find a hacker or two that have yet to join a project team.

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