Category Archives: Developer Spotlight

TADHack Popayan: Dnuncia by RM5

<Editors Note: This weblog was written by team RM5 (Juan Daza, Camilo Segura, Mauricio Maca) from TADHack Popayán who created the hack Dnuncia Platform that won the Status Global Prize.> First of all, we want to send a HUGE ‘Thank You’ to Alan and to Status Team, not only for the prize that we appreciate … Continue reading TADHack Popayan: Dnuncia by RM5

TADHack Global 2018 Winners

Its a wrap for TADHack Global 2018, we’ve announced all the location and global winners in the video, presentation and listed below. This year we lost our title as the largest hackathon to the Blockchain community who are running some massive events. However, we still claim to the the largest global hackathon over one weekend, … Continue reading TADHack Global 2018 Winners

Interview with ChatLoop

As TADHack Global approaches, we wanted to present some challenges to developers, to give you some tangible problems to consider solving with your hacking efforts. With this in mind, TADHack Brisbane Location Leader Mark White sat down with Michael Mersiades, picture below, founder of social enterprise ChatLoop.   MW: Michael, tell us about ChatLoop – … Continue reading Interview with ChatLoop

Spotlight on TADHack Lisbon

TADHack Lisbon has run since 2015. We were initially located at IST (Instituto Superior Técnico) TargusPark in Porto Salvo. It was an amazing location with impressive internet, however, it was out of town, which was not easy to get to on a weekend. So this year we have a new downtown location thanks to Altice … Continue reading Spotlight on TADHack Lisbon

Tiến Nguyễn Khắc on TADHack Auckland

by Ti?n Nguy?n Kh?c (Editor’s note: a frank and honest review of TADHack Auckland that shows the importance of never giving up, and team diversity is key to creating winning hacks. We loose a few teams every year between Saturday and Sunday, Ti?n describes how tenacity pays, well done!) I arrived at TADHack Auckland without … Continue reading Tiến Nguyễn Khắc on TADHack Auckland

Oracle Labs at TADHack Brisbane

TADHack 2017 in Brisbane was our first hackathon experience.  It was an opportunity to learn how to use and put together some of the existing established services to build a complex reporting software only in two days. TADHack is a telecommunication hackathon sponsored by several platform and API providers. We decided to use Matrix as … Continue reading Oracle Labs at TADHack Brisbane

Bunyip at TADHack Sydney 2017

It was spring time in Sydney town and hackathon season had just begun, at least for me. This was indeed my first, ever hackathon, but not TADHack’s! As I entered the muru-D offices on Level 9 of Telstra’s tower in Sydney’s Liverpool Street, I was greeted by a small army of friendly Telstra and Oracle … Continue reading Bunyip at TADHack Sydney 2017

TADHack London PhoneGuard Review

Last weekend I attended my first ever TADHack Global in London.  Over the past couple of years I’ve attended other hackathons but never TADHack. Its focused on using programmable telecoms, which turns out to be incredibly fun and powerful. We created a hack PhoneGuard using Apifonica that won the Apifonica global prize. Thanks to everyone … Continue reading TADHack London PhoneGuard Review

Project Clearwater over RINA

Last weekend, I attended the TADHack Global hackathon in London.  I’d attended a few of the previous hackathons, in particular hacking on Matrix a couple of times, but this time it was the “RINA Rumble” challenge that most appealed. RINA is the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture, a modern replacement for both TCP and IP.  It’s still … Continue reading Project Clearwater over RINA