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Vrban Wins The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Indulge And MixTape Are Runners Up
Yesterday, hundreds of hackers convened at the Manhattan Center for the Disrupt NY Hackathon. They have worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours. After a long night, they all took…
The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection
Longtime TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon participants, Kay Anar and Gilad Shai showed off their hardware hack today called the “oRouter” – a Linux-powered, Raspberry Pi-like computer offering secure Wi-Fi access…
It’s always great to see hardware hacks. This one, called 3Dioo, just demoed on stage here at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2014 hackathon turns a standard Samsung smartphone into…
WhichBeers Wants To Help You Find The Right Beer
At our TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon today, Andrew Kae and Xiaoan Yan presented one of the most useful hacks of the day: a new way to find good beer. Imagine…
Intel Makes Another Acquisition: Hacker League, A Platform For Hackathons, Is Now A Part Of Mashery
Intel’s acquisition spree continues apace, with the latest being made to augment one of its other recent acquisitions. It is buying Hacker League, a popular platform for managing hackathons, which…
Yale Adds Another Stop To The College Hacker Circuit
The organizers of the hackathon at Yale this weekend aren’t exactly sure how many students turned out for the sleepless grind. Gauging from the depletion of YHack t-shirts, they put…
Foursquare PreCheck-In Wins The First Disrupt Europe Hackathon, Teleapp And Colorful Gift Place Second And Third
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe’s first ever hackathon has just concluded, and the judges have crowned a winner. There were 91 companies presenting hacks at this year’s inaugural event, and 24 hours…
Twpple Hack, Built By Kenyan Duo, Connects Small Businesses With Social Media “Big Wigs”
Here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Hackathon, Sam Gichuru (left) and Billy Odero spent the night working on a neat hack to help small businesses promote themselves by tapping into…
Beatcoin Is A Music Jukebox Hack Powered By Bitcoin Micropayments
Why did music jukeboxes disappear? They were probably the first truly social experience around music, but then everybody stopped using them. Meet Beatcoin, a nifty hack that was presented onstage…
Here at Disrupt Europe in Berlin, coders have had 24 hours to try to build the best product possible. There have been trials and tribulations, hotdogs and donuts and quite…
Here Comes The Disrupt Europe Hackathon Hot Dog Cam!
Sometimes you just want a hot dog. That’s why we drove a GoPro mounted to a shopping cart around the Disrupt Europe Hackathon where we saw some of the happiest…
Come And Build With Us At The Disrupt Europe Hackathon — We’re Nearly Out Of Tickets!
It’s almost time. In just over a week, we’re bringing the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the very first time. And you know what comes before every Disrupt? One…
Join Us At Our Very First Disrupt Europe Hackathon! More Tickets Now Available
Hey, you! Do you have an idea for something awesome? Do you have the developer chops to build a working version of it in just under 24 hours? Join us…
Europe, Come Build With Us! Here Are The Very First Tickets To The Disrupt Europe Hackathon
Hey, Berlin! Come show us what you’ve got. In just over a month, we’re bringing the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the very first time — and with it,…
Harbingers Of Apps To Come, Here Are Four Google Glass For Fashion Hacks We Saw At Disrupt
With an abnormally high population of Google Glass owners in one convention center and ShopStyle’s API open to participants at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, it should come as no surprise…
Spruce Crowned The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Cloudiverse And AdFree Take Second And Third
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013’s Hackathon wrapped up today, with a demo session that spanned around five hours, after 24 hours of actually building hacks. We had a record 264 registered…
300ft Drone-Powered Hack Foresees A Future Stuffed With Eye-In-The-Sky All-Seeing Apps
Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack,…
An App For Social Change, Hot Mess Anonymously Tells Your Friends That They Have Gunk In Their Teeth
Neil Mansilla and Rob Zazueta got a lot of laughs this afternoon for their Disrupt Hackathon submission, Hot Mess. The app aims to solve the universal nightmare of unwittingly walking…
SARAH Lets You Request Information From 21 Government Agencies At The Same Time
The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some…
An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of ‘Super Fun Kid Time’
The best way to build a great product is to really understand the problem it is trying to solve. The latest awesome example of this is Super Fun Kid Time,…
The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something…
Kovert Is A GPS That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket To Foil Would-Be Muggers
When walking through a sketchy neighborhood that you don’t know well, it doesn’t always feel like a good idea to have your phone out. Disrupt Hackathon entrant Kovert is an…
SmartDrive Hack Creates A Real HUD For Your Car Via Google Glass
Today at the Disrupt SF Hackathon, Brent Bovenzi presented SmartDrive, a neat Google Glass app. Thanks to this hack, you get a true heads-up display to see how your car…
Alerter Is A Belt Buckle Wearable That Warns You If The Kids Leave The Yard
Alberto Garcia and Tenoch Gonzalez came all the way from Mexico City to participate in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon for the first time. Their hack, called Alerter, is a…
Monkeying Around At The TC Disrupt Hackathon
It’s not often that we get to see the Crunchies Monkey. When he’s not busy shopping at the Facebook Store or taking a Lyft from Square to the TechCrunch office,…
The TC Disrupt Hackathon 2013 Is Officially Underway
The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon not only marks the beginning of Disrupt SF 2013, but it also marks the beginning of potentially hundreds of new products, services, and gadgets.
Announcing The Disrupt SF Hackathon Judges And A Ton Of New Prizes (And The Very Last Batch Of Tickets!)
The first batch of tickets for our Disrupt SF Hackathon (it’s this weekend!) sold out so fast I thought something had gone wrong. We’ve released a few batches since, each…
Come To The Disrupt Hackathon, Leave Smarter — Here Are The API Workshops (And More Tickets!)
We’re just over a week away from the Disrupt SF Hackathon, where hundreds of devs will be locked in a battle to build the coolest thing they can build in…
The Disrupt SF Hackathon Is Almost Here! More Tickets Available Now
Two. more. weeks. In just a little over two weeks, our annual Disrupt SF conference is rolling back into town, and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons. We’ve released…
Come Build At The Disrupt SF Hackathon! More Tickets Just Released
Fame. Riches. A colossal mountain of pizza. A room full of coders who have 24 hours to build the most mind-blowing thing they can. Sound like your kind of night?…
