Wrocław, Poland


9:00 AM | November 18th 2017

LiveChat Hackathon #3

Create the future of chat
platforms

Idea

A couple of years ago we’d never expect that one day we will conclude that LiveChat is a thing of the past.

Sure, we still think it’s the most convenient, user-friendly and efficient way of chatting under the sun. We still think that its great advantage is that it frees you from all the installation sweat and setup nightmare.

We just don’t think anymore that this is a solution for everyone.

It turned out that we underestimated our customers. We didn’t know how many great ideas on LiveChat features and integrations they will have. We had no idea how creative they are, and eager are they to adapt our app for their needs.

We wanted them to put their ideas into action, so we decided to build a new, innovative, open live chat app. We created chat.io, a chat platform with open and extended API that gives its users a chance to transform their ideas into real features.

During the 3rd LiveChat Hackathon, you will turn into a chat.io creative user. Can’t wait to see your ideas!

General_info

Task

During this LiveChat Hackathon, your task will be to build an app, app extension or integration and present it to the jury. There’s a plot twist though: you will have to work with API of our newest product: chat.io.

Event date

Saturday, November 18th 2017, from 9:00 AM till 9:00 PM

Host

Hackaton is organised by LiveChat.

Registration

The registration for LiveChat Hackathon #3 closes on November 15th at 12:00am, so get your skates on and sign up, if you haven’t done this yet!

Teams

Up to 3 people (designers, developers, testers).

Technology

Any language that can support websocket connection (such as node.js, Go, PHP, Python, Java, or C#).

Equipment

B.Y.O.L – bring your own laptop.

Entry fee

Event is free of charge.

Awards

We’re looking for bright minds. If you love to experiment with new technologies, we want to offer you a dream job: playing with the newest technological toys and coming up with cool applications for them.

Sounds good? Prove yourself during the upcoming LiveChat Hackathon and win a spot in our team.

The winning team will be offered a job in LiveChat. They will also get 2000PLN for each team member.

We will also reward the 2nd place with 1000PLN and 3rd place with 500PLN for each team member.

Agenda

9:00

Registration of participants

9:15

Presentation of rules and task subject

9:45

Teams formation

10:00

Start of coding

12:00

Lunch

18:00

Pizza

20:00

Projects presentations

20:30

Jury consultations

20:45

Announcement of results

21:00

Networking

Food, snacks and beverages are on us :)
Location
Al. Dębowa 3, Wrocław
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Clock
9:00 AM
callendar
November 18th, 2017

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Success_Story

Me and my friend came across the LiveChat’s Hackathon on Facebook. The topic of chat industry was pretty cool to work on, so without further ado we decided to participate.

Next day we were coding our supreme integration. It was a payment button for customer, who want to tip consultant inside the chat. Sometimes there is a situation when your support consultant is working for you till late hours. It would be great to have opportunity to reward such person. Don’t you think?

After few hours of coding our backend and mockuping a chat we finished our prototype. We used LiveChat’s Visitor API to create a chat with our button and paypal.me as a peer-2-peer payment system. There was also our API on the .NET core for the purpose of matching consultant and user data and generating payment links. Thanks to the tremendous support from LiveChat’s developers our prototype was working. Then as a final gesture I tipped my teammate through chat window for all the effort he made.

If you want to have fun and create something useful join us in the upcoming Hackathon. We guarantee great atmosphere and exciting challenge.

Przemek
– Online Marketing Specialist at LiveChat

About_LiveChat

We’re a team of 70 passionate people developing and supporting the most efficient and easy-to-use live chat software for business. What we enjoy the most is seeing our customer’s business grow with the help of our product.

At first glance, LiveChat is an app allowing to chat with visitors on your site, dedicated for ecommerce and customer care. But if you take a closer look, you will see how complex this solution is and how many development opportunities it offers.

Our mission is to deliver fast and simple communication and to make the online sales process easier. At the same time, we want to have fun while working and constantly self-develop!

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