Category Archives: Hackday
Devs Battle in Amsterdam to be Kings of Code
Following on from Tim’s post about our hackathon adventuring in Europe over the past week, it’s my turn to highlight some of the excellence that came out of our time at the Kings of Code ‘Hack Battle’ during The Next Web conference that took place last week in Amsterdam. After taking the rather scenic train from Paris, Tim and I arrived in Amsterdam to discover that I’d booked myself into a hotel 120 miles away from where we were supposed to be. Several confused minutes later Spotify Hacker Advocate, and fellow Hack Battle supporter, Andrew Mager rocks up with some local…
READ MORE »Email Deliverability Meets Bangalore: Business of API Hackathon Event Recap
It’s always exciting to be able to introduce SendGrid’s APIs to new audiences. A great part about being on the Dev Relations team is that we get to do that on a global scale. Earlier this month (February 8th-10th) we had the honor of hosting the inaugural Business of API Hackathon alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, LinkedIn, and Twilio in Bangalore India. The event was organized by Microsoft, Vangal, and Bessemer Venture Partners at the colorful Microsoft Accelerator space and was designed to challenge top developers to explore business applications on the SendGrid, Twilio, and LinkedIn platforms. I was joined by…
READ MORE »PennApps 2013 Event Recap
In January, my fellow Dev Evangelist, Swift, and I attended PennApps, a 48 hour hackathon at UPenn in Philadelphia. PennApps is the biggest university hackathon in the world (500+ attendees!) and is organized and hosted by UPenn students. Swift attended PennApps in the fall of 2012 and after having a great experience, was really looking forward to seeing what the students would bring in the spring. We weren’t disappointed! Swift did a live demo of the SendGrid API that utilizes Tumblr and an Arduino board (that showed his love for a certain popular Ryan Gosling meme!). Check it out. There were a ton…
READ MORE »SendGrid’s Dev Relations Team Hit The Ground Running in 2012…Where Will You Find Them in 2013?
SendGrid’s Developer Relations team travels the globe attending hack days, conferences, startup weekends, summits, and more—all in the name of making developers’ lives easier, especially when it comes to email. Our 6 community team members (Tim, Swift, Elmer, Brandon, Martyn, and Adria) covered some serious ground in 2012. They attended/organized/ sponsored/hacked/presented at 260+ events in 21 countries. They made some serious moves last year and have plans to travel even more in 2013. To give you a better idea of what makes our Dev Relations team tick, they’ve highlighted some of their favorite events from 2012 and outlined where you’ll find them in 2013.…
READ MORE »SendGrid Travels to espnW Hackathon At Stanford with O’Reilly Books
This weekend ESPN is holding it’s first public hackathon. espnW is focused on attracting women developers to the event to build on several API’s including ESPN, Twilio, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Current numbers from organizers show 70% of registered attendees are women. We’re happy to announce that O’Reilly has reached out and will be giving a free ebook to each registered attendee for espnW! Come by the Mashery table to select your book. We’ve included a list of books relevant to designing web applications, programming languages, web design, mobile apps, big data management, open source for enterprise and more! Adria…
READ MORE »API Hackday To Make Denver Debut
API Hackday is a series of hackathons that began in the fall of 2010 and has now visited over 15 cities across the globe. Next Saturday, October 27, API Hackday is making its Denver debut, as part of the city’s inaugural Startup Week. API Hackday was created and is organized by three of the most active API-driven, developer-focused companies in the world – Mashery, SendGrid and Twilio. In each city we visit, events are orchestrated by seasoned developer evangelists (at least one from each company) that bring a ton of knowledge and experience (based on hundreds of hackathons attended) to the…
READ MORE »TechCrunch Hackathon 2012
SendGrid sent us to the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon to do some hacking with local developers. With just 24 hours to go from idea to demo, we came up with the idea CrunchFunnel. Using the Crunchbase, SendGrid and Twilio APIs, CrunchFunnel helps you find out which companies are ready to hire and expand their infrastructure, giving you a lead time of 2-5 weeks over competitors. In this post we will describe our process from beginning to end, including access to the source code and live demo.
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