This past weekend I attended my first mobile hackathon in San Diego sponsored by ATT. On the first day (Friday evening), the event started with 7-minute presentations by ATT, City of San Diego, HTC, and BlakcBerry, and myself. I presented Tiggzi Mobile App Builder and showed how quickly and easy it is to build mobile apps connected to any REST API. Anyone who signed up for a Tiggzi account during the event got 4 months Pro plan free!
Above, Alex Donn, the event organizer is opening the event with a presentation on ATT API and various cloud-based tools.
On day second (Saturday), 6-8 teams got together and started building mobile apps using AT&T API, mHealth API, City of San Diego Data, HTC PenUltimate API and many others.
I spent most of the time helping build a CROWDS app using Google Map API and Parse.com as mobile back-end to store data.
CROWDS – A mobile app that anonymously, and in the background, sends your geolocation to the cloud. A simple GUI that gives you a birds eye map view of the crowds. Zoomable, moveable, simplicity. Don’t go to Disneyland when you can only go on 2 rides for the whole day. Check out CROWDS and “know when to go”. Knowledge is power!
I also helped 3 other teams who used Tiggzi Mobile App Builder. One of the teams that used Tiggzi took 3rd place – Best Overall App. I had an awesome time! Thanks to Alex Donn and Ben Nelson for organizing a wonderful event. Looking forward to more AT&T hackathons. One last thing I must mention is the food at the hackathon – it was excellent.
Max Katz 
Great…Glad to hear everything went well.
Its great to see events like these been organised.
Only wish I could have gone as i’m only learning 😦
The CROWDS app sounds interesting. Maybe whenever you get a chance you might share it 😉