It is 5:18 am and if you know me at all, you certainly know that I would never be up at such an ungodly hour, unless of course I never went to sleep. A week or so ago Sharpcast announced that it was going to have its first ever Hack Day. For those who don’t know, a hack day is a 24 hour period in which the engineers can build whatever they want, however they want to build it with no mettling from PM and other such irksome pests. The only rule of our Hack Day is that it must utilize our sync technology.
I teamed up with Achuith from the Platform Team and Jean-Gab from the Hummingbird team to hack together a “whiteboard”. Our concept was to provide a space where users could collaborate via a desktop application with features to drag and drop photos, basic drawing, primitive shapes and our version of magnetic poetry. We had hoped to include nifty features like speech bubbles and perhaps the scaling of vector graphics. We pretty quickly scaled back the scope of the project to fit within the 24 hour time allotment. Our whiteboard will allow multiple users to collaboratively drag and drop predefined words, custom text, photos and a limited number of icons on a shared workspace.
Since the Sharpcast applications are branded with animals (a rabbit and a hummingbird) we chose to carry on the torch by branding our app with a cockroach. Our motto is “Our app will be around even if you aren’t”.
See below for some of the artwork from the project.
