Review of the API Hack Day on 10/27 in Denver, Colorado

1. Presented by: Peter Motykowski

2. The Five W’s and a H
• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?
……
• How?

3. Who?
• David Waite
• Ian Jaffe
• Joshua Sindy
• Jason Reicheneker
• Matt Peterson
• Peter Motykowski

4. What?
API Hack Day brings developers together for an
all-day coding fest focused on building apps with
APIs. Developers of all experience levels can
share ideas, collaborate on projects, start new
ventures and discover great tools and new APIs
to play with.

5. When?
• Held Saturday October 27th from 8am to ~8pm
• Held world-wide all year in various locations
around the globe. Next one in NYC December
8th 2012.
• More info at: http://apihackday.com

6. Where?
• MapQuest Headquarters in Downtown Denver

7. Why?
• Event coincided with Denver Startup Week
• Ping Identity team member participated to
better acquaint themselves with APIs and
rapid prototyping techniques.
• Fun!

8. How?

9. So what did we do?
• Brainstorm Ideas
– https://sites.google.com/a/pingidentity.com/peter-motykowski/apihackday
• Vote!
• Spare Change
– Micro-donations via a mobile app (iOS)
– Feature local (OpenColorado) charitable organizations
using Mapquest’s iOS componentry
– Payment mediated via SMS (Twilio), PayPal, etc
– Confirmation email via SendGrid

10. So what did we accomplish?
• We had fun!
• Made progress in a few screens
of an iOS app
• Developed infrastructure for
API invocation so that all the
heavy lifting need not be done in
Objective C
• Presented our idea at the end and
it was very well received

11. What could we have done better?
• After seeing what others’ did, we should have
done a web app
• Should have used a rapid
development framework for
iOS (Titanium)
• Learn from our mistakes

12. Why was this a good idea?
• Team building… Can’t stress this enough, we all
had a really good time despite spending 12 hours
together 
• Refreshing to work on something other than our
“day-to-day”
• Meet other Denver-based technologists
• Learn about other Denver-based startups

13. Thanks!
• Thanks to Bill Wood for offering “Ping Hours”
for participation and being supportive of the
effort.
• Thanks to all the talented engineers that gave
up an entire Saturday.
• Thanks for listening!