If you’re not here, you’re missing out!

Hackweekend 2 kicked off with a blast at 12pm at the wonderfully cozy Alt.Space at Jaya One.

Hackweekenders arrived, got settled down and were fed (and hooked up to YES4G – the silent superheroes of Hackweekend 2 so far!).

By 2pm, the hunger appeased hackweekenders gathered to listen to keynote speakers spread the Hackweekend word. It was well received.

Our amazing sponsors had their say too. Just before everyone begun the slow descent into drowsiness, they were aroused to come forward and share ideas they wanted to hack on.

They came and shared in droves. To connect potential teammates, ideas were put up for vote with each hackweekender having a limited number of votes to give out. Teams formed organically and broke-off to set up base and begin to hack.

Hacking proceded in varying levels of intensity almost uninterrupted but for the quiet call to inform potentially hungry hackweekenders that more food had arrived for tea, until 7pm. Hackweekend stepped it up a notch at 7pm, by serving the best live acoustic guitar performance at a hackathon ever (EVER!!!11) courtesy of the amazing Az Samad (who is performing Tuesday night at No Black Tie with his Trio) ! Diner was served and some multitasking-hackweekenders enjoyed the flawless renditions while chowing down dinner (and ABC for desert).

Hacking resumed soon after, again uninterrupted but for the quiet call announcing that the Shisha (courtesy of Says.my) had arrived and interested hackweekenders could enjoy a few puffs outside to mellow out and solve difficult problems with their subconscious. Shisha was is awesome. Brogramming is better!

At one point, even the stars aligned to bless Hackweekend with a celestial event. Hackweekend 2 : Red Moon Edition.

At 12am hackweekenders made it to the first checkpoint and had to be dragged kicking and screaming off their machines to share their progress with the rest and seek solutions to any problems they were facing. We were all blown away by the quality of ideas and teams and the progress they demonstrated already. It left us licking our lips in anticipation of the demo session to come. (There was more food, of course!)

Hacking resumed soon after as hackweekenders approached the zone and were getting more wired-in for the crucial development push.

Its 4.24AM. T-5.5 hours to demos. Eyes feeling heavy. Must not give in (for there are cream puffs and they are GOOD).

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