[Ask HN]:what was your best hackathon project?

#1

Post by osho » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:30 AM UTC

I am bored of seeing the same api mashups everywhere. Which was your unique and best project?

Re: [Ask HN]:what was your best hackathon project?

#2

Post by jesusmichael » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 7:42 AM UTC

methane detector..

Re: [Ask HN]:what was your best hackathon project?

#3

Post by zachlatta » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 8:00 AM UTC

Probably texit. It's an API that you can use to embed LaTeX into markdown directly (even on GitHub), while conforming to standards. https://github.com/texit/texit

Re: [Ask HN]:what was your best hackathon project?

#4

Post by ohashi » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

http://securesha.re - Self-destructing, single-use file sharing.

We built it before Mega too. It's also open source.

Re: [Ask HN]:what was your best hackathon project?

#5

Post by bowerbird » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 4:12 PM UTC

zachlatta wrote: post #3

Probably texit. It's an API that you can use to embed LaTeX into markdown directly (even on GitHub), while conforming to standards. https://github.com/texit/texit

ya know, i've see you pointing to this before.

and i should have realized then how cool it is.

but it only occurred to me now. good job, dude!

i will be in touch with you.

-bowerbird