CHD FIVE Results

In the tech capital of the northern California part of the world; where innovation is king and investment is queen and free laundry service is some pampered prince; where brilliant minds have congregated en masse to change the world or at least make a shit ton of money;  70-or-so people came together and made some weird shit. 

Grand Prize Winner

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AWWCOG: The Wearable Furby

A shoulder-strapped Furby capable of recommending restaurants, looking up movies, providing you directions, and farting. 

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Runner Up

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High Fyves

You just got off work or you're at the end of a great night, and you need that ultimate pick-me-up? With High Fyves you can "find someone, five someone." 

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Other Finalists

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AWWCOG: The Wearable Furby
AWWCOG: The Wearable Furby

A shoulder-strapped Furby capable of recommending restaurants, looking up movies, providing you directions, and farting. 

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I'm A Huge Fan
I'm A Huge Fan

Solving the problem of appearing as out-of-touch as you actually are, I'm A Huge Fan provides you with talking points about any movie or music artist and disguises it as an email. 

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Decoy Leroy
Decoy Leroy

White people: Made a mistake? Never fear! Blame it on an auto-generated Black man and it'll all be okay. It's the American way! 

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Amazon Automator
Amazon Automator

A Chrome extension that adds embarrassing items to your Amazon search history. So when you lend out your Prime login to somebody, they get the impression that you have, let's say, some rather particular purchasing habits. 

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Good? Morning
Good? Morning

Often your alarm clock can feel like the worst thing in your entire life. Now it truly can be. This alarm clock will challenge you and text message contacts randomly until you either wake up or your life is ruined. 

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Duolingus
Duolingus

The site teaches you dexterity, precision, and rhythm; all crucially important life/life-producing skills. Sure, other site can help you date and connect, but this one helps you date and connect. 

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The Punboard
The Punboard

The most punderful leaderboard on the entire internet. It's a public scoreboard of groans (good) and sad trombones (bad) anybody can issue to a pun they see on Twitter. It's destined to become the No. 1 source for puns, no doubt about wit.

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Judges

Ina Fried


Ina is the Senior Editor at Re/code. Follow her at @InaFried.

Pamela Fox


Pamela works on the programming curriculum at Khan Academy. Follow her at @PamelaFox.

Sean Percival


Sean is a VC at 500 Startups. Follow him at @Percival.

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Schedule

Friday, September 26 - Hackathon Day One

  • Location: Parisoma - 169 11th St. at Natoma St.
  • 6:00PM: Doors open. Whiskey Friday!
  • 6:30PM: Dinner: Little Chihuaha
  • 7:00PM: Idea pitching & API demos
  • 8:00PM: Team formation
  • 8:30PM: Hacking begins
  • 11:30PM: Snack
  • Overnight: Participants are welcome to continue hacking overnight though it's completely optional. 

Saturday, September 27 - Hackathon Day Two

  • Location: Parisoma - 169 11th St. at Natoma St.
  • 9:30AM: Breakfast
  • 12:30PM: Lunch: Bicycle Bahn Mi
  • 4:00PM: Project summary due on Hacker League
  • 5:45PM: Dinner: Cathead's BBQ
  • 6:00PM: First round of demos. Participants will decide which teams move on to the Sunday finals.
  • 9:00PM: Everyone goes home to sleep like humans.

Sunday, September 28 - The Show

  • Location: Brava Theater - 2781 24th St. at York St.
  • 4:00PM: Finalists arrive for sound and tech check.
  • 6:00PM: Doors and bar open.
  • 7:00PM: Show starts.
  • 9:15PM: Awards announced and more drinks.
  • 9:30PM: Everyone high fives then quietly exits without spilling whiskey everywhere like drunk teenagers.