Macoscope joins the Sponsors League!

We're really exited to annouce the last sponsor of HACKWAW 2: Macoscope. Macoscope is the biggest and most active iOS and OS X software houses in Poland. They also develop their own apps and if you have any Apple device, you probably familiar with Code Pilot or Circuloid. Macoscope was born of a dream three hackers once had; a dream of creating a great workplace, setting bold challenges and working creatively on rewarding projects, which ultimately bring real value into people’s lives. Founded by Daniel, Wojtek and Zbigniew, Macoscope is the place where you can employ skills, along with carefully chosen tools, at software development to make your dream come true.

The good thing is: they're looking for the fresh blood to join their company! If you're a Objective-C developer, go and look at their announcement here. 

Big and loud round of applause for Macoscope!

Meet the amazing sponsors!

Meet brands who help us make it happen. We'll always be grateful to amazing companies and people who help shaping the developer culture and community in Poland! 

T-Mobile is a general sponsor of HACKWAW 2. T-Mobile believes in innovative services created by external teams. They offers them the possibility to use developed network od T-Mobile and access to a wide range of customers. Both teams that are just starting and those more developed can apply to the T-Mobile program. They realise that interesting ideas are born every day around us. T-Mobile want to support them by a number of initiatives and products like Open API and Open Innovation to cooperate with startups that need help with development and launch.
To learn more, visit http://innowacje.t-mobile.pl/

HardGAMMA Ventures is the leading early stage VC fund in Poland. HardGamma also run a startup accelerator program for technology entrepreneurs called GammaRebels. It focuses on accelerating and developing  startups through mentoring, advising and sharing both business & technical knowledge. GammaRebels is an intensive 3 month long program held in Warsaw. The second edition starts November 2012. They provide you what is the most important for startups – advice, mentoring, and connections that you wouldn’t find anywhere else.

Nettigo.pl is an online store delivering electronics, specialised in Arduino. Witold Rugowski create a place where you can buy Arduino and components to build your own system. They also systematically develop knowledge base and expand Arduino community in Poland. Hopefully, one day someone create an interesting and innovative project thanks to Nettigo. The philosophy of Nettigo is based on customer experience, that's why they're always trying to keep track of magazine, ship fast and pack items carefully. They also use things they sell on daily basis and it's the only way to make sure that products are actually good.

AIP is a business development accelerator supporting the most innovative startup companies. They base their model on a sustainable business development programme under which they provide a system founded on three elements: enterprise, knowledge, and community, and thus enable your company to expand to the international market.

Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. The BlackBerry product line includes the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, the award-winning BlackBerry smartphone, software for businesses and accessories.

We're extremely happy to have them on board. We also believe you're happy about this as well. 

Let's say BIG and loud THANK YOU. 

HACKWAW is in 5 days!

That means you should start some serious preparations. Of course, we'll help you with that! 
We have literally 5 tickets left and the registration will close tomorrow, so if you didn't get your ticket yet, this is THE LAST CALL.

If you're all geared up and ready for the battle, let's go to the details: 

1. Submit your hack or choose a team

Some people already did that, but if you're not one of them, it's final time. Go to our hackathon platform and tell us what are you going to do. That help you and your fellow hackers to team up before the event and be a little bit ahead of the rest during the hackathon! If you don't have idea, it's a good place to look for a team to join!

2. Know your goal and work backwards

Think what are you going to build and how much time do you need. You have only nineteen hours for coding, so define you goal, think about the final demo and build your produt backwards. There is no ppt, key or other pptx on the demo, so everything you're going to show at the end has to work!

3. Don't forget about stuff to bring

  • laptop and charger (or desktop if you're that hardcore)
  • projector adapter if needed (bring also spares!) 
  • headphones 
  • power extension lead (people will LOVE you) 
  • everything you can need: some spare papers, markers won't hurt

4. Before: get some sleep

It's gonna be long and hard, be prepared for that.

5. Strech your fingers and keep smiling! :) 

If you need more, there is a great hackathon survival guide: 9 things to make the most of a hack event. 

Nettigo.pl - online electronic store for makers by makers

Latest trends of internet of things, 3D printing, and huge success of kickstarter's Pebble, Lockitron and Printrbot -- all this were an amazing inspiration for making the second edition of HACKWAW more hardware. Now it's even better, because we have a partner who make this event accessible and more fun for everyone. 

Ladies and gentlemen, Nettigo.pl is a strategic partner of HACKWAW 2! 

Nettigo.pl is an online store delivering electronics, specialised in Arduino. Witold Rugowski create a place where you can buy Arduino and components to build your own system. They also systematically develop knowledge base and expand Arduino community in Poland. Hopefully, one day someone create an interesting and innovative project thanks to Nettigo.

The philosophy of Nettigo is based on customer experience, that's why they're always trying to keep track of magazine, ship fast and pack items carefully. They also use things they sell on daily basis and it's the only way to make sure that products are actually good. Real online electronic store for makers by makers.

Nettigo will be a strategic partner of HACKWAW, that's why everyone who decide to create a hardware project can submit a hack and ask for everything you need to make it happen.
Just register for HACKWAW and go to our online hackathon platform to submit your needs. Please, do that before 27th October - only then we'll have enough time to order parts & tools for you!

Also, make sure to check out Nettigo.pl blog. It's a great place to learn more about Arduino platform! Like Nettigo.pl on Facebook to keep track on latest news in electronic world.

Registration for HACKWAW 2 now open, hurry up!

Just a quick announcement here: registration for HACKWAW 2 is now open! Hurry up - it's only 80 spots and we'll sell out pretty quickly!

Some important information first:
1. If you're going to hack a hardware project, you have to hurry even more. Our amazing partner Nettigo.pl will rent you a lot of hardware completely for free and give you some great discounts, but you have to submit your hack and hardware needs on our secret hackathon platform. Make sure you'll submit needs BEFORE October 27th - it's a complete DEADLINE for submitting hardware needs.
2. Registration for HACKWAW costs as usual 50 zł, but you already know it's worth it - you'll get much more in t-shirts, gifts, gadgets, food, prizes and all special treats we're preparing for you.
3. Make sure to come with friends and share the good news about HACKWAW with everyone! :)

GO, GET YOUR TICKET NOW!

HI HACKERS, SAVE THE DATE: 10 - 11th November

Yes, HACKWAW is back again with endless amount of fresh energy, ideas and creativity. We can't wait to see you again in amazing space of Business Link AIP on 10-11th November. Everyone agreed that first event was excellent, but this time we're going to raise the bar even higher.

What is different in the HACKWAW #2?

-only software projects
+hardware projects encouraged  
-24h non-stop
+24h 12();sleep();12() saturday-sunday
-teaming up starts at the event
+teaming up starts before the event via hackathon.io
-Theme: "a product"
+Theme: "Robots, wearable electronics and mobile apps"
+Hardware teams get hardware from the organizer

On the first HACKWAW you proved that you can build a software project - web or mobile in 24 hours. So now we have this crazy idea that it IS POSSIBLE to build a robot or a hardware project, all in 24 hours. Can you prove it again?:)  Of course, we know not everyone is as crazy as ourselves, that's why you can also make a software project at HACKWAW.  To encourage you to be crazy enough and start a hardware project we prepared a little treat: everyone who will have an idea for hardware project and register to the event fast enough to tell us about it, will get tools, hardware, arduino.. everything you need to make this happen completely for free! 

Registration will open really soon, let's stay in touch on facebook or twitter, so you won't miss the deadline! 

Watch HACKWAW demos: "event" batch

Those who came to HACKWAW final demos probably know, that we divide project in different batches. First batch which showed demos was called "event apps". Enjoy demos of Citypul.se, Festivee and Re-event (special runner-up)!

THANK YOU!

Guys, we still don’t have words to describe how much last weekend was amazing, awesome, great, best and wonderful. We spent a LOT of time trying to do the best we can to make this event the most hackerish for you, but we didn’t even expect such wonderful weekend. It was LEGENDARY, didn’t it?

It was our first time, so we didn’t expect you to believe in us, but now we have to thanks to all hackers, designers, supporters, SPONSORS, mentors and press for their belief. All this never could happen without amazing people, who have put so many effort in making this event unforgettable for you. We want to say thank you one more time to Black Lion, Microsoft, iSource, HP, Beast fund, Allegro Group, Monster Energy, Business Link AIP. You guys made this event, THANK YOU!

Also, me & Kuba have some special thanks to do: Jarek, Agata, Bartek, Krzysiek, Marek and Paula. Thanks for making this whole thing MUCH easier for us. It was just great to know that we don’t have to worry about every single thing and that some things just happen without our attention. THANKS for your help during and before weekend!

One more thank to awesome mentors, who committed their time and shared their knowledge and experience with those who need that. It was pleasure and honor for us to have you and we’re super happy that you’re a part of HACKWAW community.

And last, but definitely not least, thanks for being with us hackers and designers. We can’t even imagine a better bunch of strangers, who became a real community in one day. We hope you’re so excited about whats happen next as we are. Stay tuned for even more great events coming this year :)

See you!
Ola & Kuba

HACKWAW Twitter love

We didn’t really know like A LOT about organizing events like hackathons. We were a part of numerous of hackathons in Poland and abroad, we just followed our instinct, we asked ourselves many times what we, as a coders, want to have on a perfect hackathons. After talking to you and reading twitter, we’re pretty sure that magic was actually happen at HACKWAW. We believe we can totally hack the planet with people like you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the winners are...

HACKWAW #1 is over now. We announced winners yesterday at 3pm and then went straight to beds. You probably already read awesome stories about HACKWAW at Pej.cz or MamStartup, but we feel like we have to document eveything and say it officially :)

The winners of first ever HACKWAW are two amazing projects:

FOOD ON ROUTE

It’s super simple and useful mobile app created by Marcin Krzyżanowski (@krzyzanowskim) and Krzysztof Figaj (@kfigaj): Find food while on route with mobile application. Judges have praised simplicity, real need for app like that and good execution in 24 hours. Congrats guys!

POCKET CONSOLE

Use your iPhone as a console controller and play with friends anywhere you want! Any two devices you have (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) can be used together with a big screen TV to maximilize your entertainment. Awesome game and platform for other developers created by the team of 3: Wojtek Siudziński (@suda), Paweł Ludwiczak (@ludwiczakpawel) and Karol Kozimor (@kkmzr).


But it’s not over! We also gave some awards for runner-ups of HACKWAW:

SO SHAPE - Award for the most polished app. Application for people actively practicing fitness. Find the nearest fitness studio in your current location. It offers personalized activities and exercises, evaluating trainers, classes and even much more!

ALLEBEAT - Special award from Allegro mentors. Figure out the best deals on Allegro, immediately.

RE-EVENT - Award for one man army. Find your friends on concert or festival with a simple and fast mobile app.

FASTBUILD - Award for the biggest amount of code lines per teammate. Goal of the project is to optimize the process of package building for linux distros. Also giving feedback of process results in nice and easy way on dashboard screen.

A.D.W.C - Award for the best A.D.W.C.;) - a proper compositor for wayland! Make a adwm or dwm like "window manager".

That’s it. But I’m sure you know that everyone who survive 24 hours, didn’t go home, didn’t sleep, actually is a winner. You’re guys just best. Keep rocking and hustling!

DEMO AGENDA

We're like 13 minutes before demo presentations. Super exciting! There is a list of project presenting today. Keep fingers crossed for teams! 

Events 
1. Citypul.se
2. Re-event
3. Festivee

Open source
4. A.W.D.C.
5. Fastbuild

Geolocation based 
6. Food on route
7. So shape
8. City connect

E-commerce
9. Allebeat
10. Pmart

Others
11. Learnersboard
12. Silentadmier

Games
13. Appwars
14. Garden DWARves
15. Pocket console

TEAMS

FASTBUILD

Goal of the project is to optimize the process of package building for linux distros. Also giving feedback of process results in nice and easy way on dashboard screen. The idea came during development of our product: OMNI - we have several build servers building each license type package.

 

SOSHAPE

An application for people actively practicing fitness. Find the nearest fitness studio in your current location. It offers personalized activities and exercises, evaluating trainers, classes and even much more!

 

GARDEN DWARVES

Garden dWARves are a brave garden gnomes fighting for freedom with evil, totalitarian evil gnomes. garden dWARves is a multi-player web game. The core mechanics borrows many ideas of all time classics like Scorhed Earth, Worms... with some ingridients of Angry Birds.

 

PROJECT_13

Project 13 is an online learning platform. It treats teachers as a asset that we 'sell'. People will be able to search for a teacher that specializes in topic that is interesting to student. Main way of teaching will happen online withing our platform.

 

CITY CONNECT

Find connection between two cities with buses, trains, etc.

 

SILENT ADMIRER

Let shy people choose secretly their love among friends. The chosen person will learn about that only if she chooses him back using our facebook app.


LOGSIFTER

Logs analyzer (apache, postfix, syslog etc) - web and Android clients. Multiple instances support.


FESTIVEE

Create mobile app for your event in practically no time.

Let your attenders throw out leaflets, they would do it anyway. Festivee will make creating a mobile leaflets for your Music Festival, Business Conference or event Hackaton (!!) a breeze.

You just need to select features that are appropriate for your event (news? schedule? and how will your attenders get to your event - maybe you would like a map? - everything is here) and fill it up with data. Clicky, clicky, and you're done.

 

DINNERS

 

CITYPULS

Citypul.se goal is to show you where exactly the party boom is located in your town. We agregate information from various web services and filter them leaving you with only the crunchiest info of all.

 

ADWC

Finally a proper compositor for wayland! Make a adwm or dwm like "window manager".

adwm: http://sourceforge.net/p/adwm/home/Home/ dwm: http://dwm.suckless.org/ wayland: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/

 

PMART and RE-EVENT

PMART / We make startup framework for ourself, learning integration with payments systems.

RE-EVENT / 1. Create event on Facebook; 2. Automatically share your location to event members; 3. Profit ?


FOOD ON ROUTE

Find food while on route with mobile application.


APPWARS

We're taking a classic war game model, mixing it up a little with a RPG card game and use apps ( and their powers ) installed on your mobile device to kick each other' arses.


POCKET CONSOLE

Use your iPhone as a console controller and play with friends anywhere you want! Any two devices you have (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) can be used together with a big screen TV to maximilize your entertainment. Simple as that! ;)

 

LOGSIFTER

Logs analyzer (apache, postfix, syslog etc) - web and Android clients. Multiple instances support.

 

ALLBEAT

Fingure out deals on Allegro immediately.

Are you ready to CODE?

For those who have dared to forget, we're remaining: HACKWAW is TOMORROW! Hope you're excited as well as we are. We want to help you prepare, that's why we created the list of things to do before you come to BLAIP tomorrow.

1. If you have an idea what to do during this weekend, prepare your 60 seconds pitch in polish. Forget about business model, target group or other boring stuff. Simply say what you want to create and who you need to accomplish your MVP during weekends. Keep this stupidly simple. Make sure your grandma understand your pitch.
2. Take a rest: next 24 hours will be extremely busy, so it's really important to stay focus, stay up, survive :)
3. Remember to pack everything: your laptop and charger are the most important part, but if you're going to get some sleep during HACKWAW, it's good to get also a sleeping bag.
4. It's good to setup your server. You don't want to waste a valuable time during HACKWAW for stuff like this.
5. Don't forget your ticket! :) It will really speed up registration process :)
6. Get a proper attitude and bring smile to the event. We're waiting for you from 9:45 am on Saturday! :)

See you tomorrow hackers! 

Meet our only one Yoda Master - BLACK LION :)

It's super nice to announce our sweetest sponsor, the Yoda Master of HackWAW: Black Lion! We're enormously grateful for everything what this amazing company do for HACKWAW community.


Black Lion is a big investment fund. In the past they helped to create Soho Factory on Warsaw praga disctrict, delicious Gostyniec brewery or even Male Man magazine. Recently, they also created a fund which invest in early stage companies, so during or after HACKWAW you can talk to Piotr Dębek, who will explain you how this world works. Who knows, maybe in two years you’ll sell your company for $1 000 000 000? Because you know what’s cool. 1 BILLION dollars is cool ;)

We're extremely happy to have them on board. We also believe you're happy about this as well. Let's say BIG and loud THANK YOU. Without Black Lion, all this will NEVER happen.