I attended the Compute Midwest Hackathon last weekend, and worked with two other fine folks: Albert Tong and Chris Lewman. In 24 hours, we made a mobile and web app that matches your friends up with companies you want to work for; or it matches up your friends with skills that might be relevant to your company.
It’s hiring, disrupted.
We called it Friendly Hires and it won the Best Mobile App award, the Singly award for best use of their API, and the Iron.io award for best use of their API.
All in all it was a great experience - you REALLY get to know people by working with them on a hardcore crunch project like this. And seeing our team come together and produce award-winning apps was an amazing and gratifying experience for me.
Next weekend I’ll be at Startup Weekend - this will be the fourth Startup Weekend I’ve attended, and the one I’ll be taking most seriously. My options are open right now, and I can’t wait to see what crazy ideas we throw together!