Our First No-Code Hack Night
Great vibes, music, pizza and some awesome apps...
Last tuesday we hosted our first no-code hack night, and it was A LOT of fun!
We wanted the hack night to be accessible to anyone, and that meant we had an incredible range of people. There was a mix of developers, CTO’s, product people and even people who’d never built anything before.
It was really amazing to see everyone building, bouncing ideas off each other and going from nothing to a (mostly) fully functional onchain app in just 2 and a bit hours, which included pizza breaks…
You could really feel the energy in the room.
The night was focused around using BuildShip and OPENFORMAT to create something ‘cool’. There weren’t really any constraints, because we just wanted to see the sort of things people built, and it’s safe to say we learnt A TONNE.
This definitely won’t be our last hack night, in fact we’re already planning the next one, keep your eyes on our Meetup to get involved…
Some of the standout projects from the night include:
Strong Work 💪
By Andy
You’d expect that Andy, being a co-founder and lead engineer at OPENFORMAT, would know his way around when building with our toolkit. Well he certainly proved that on the night, building not just 1, but 2 amazing projects.
This one was a Discord bot that lets you reward people in your community with points by reacting to their message with a “💪” and then lets you see the community points leaderboard. He’s actually made a tutorial on how to build this too, you can find it on our Youtube.
Kudos for Kids 🏆
By James and Rich from Appmilla
This app was all around encouraging kids to behave (expecially during the holidays) and when they did, they would be rewarded with prizes. Parents were also able to create a household leaderboard with notifications when the kids were overtaken by their siblings.
Nothing like a bit of sibling rivalry to fuel good behaviour. 👀
The MedEd Coach 🧠
By Dominik
Dom, as someone who had never built anything before managed to make a really good start on building an app to help medical students learn their course content and simulate a conversation with different patients.
Depending on the quality of their answers they were then rewarded and they were awarded badges for completing certain modules. The goal was also to add onchain leaderboards to inject some competition within the different medical classes.
It was already WAY better than just using flashcards…
It Takes a Village 🙌
By Sarah
My personal favourite project was Sarah’s project, although I am slightly biased since I spent a good chunk of the night helping her with it.
Sarah built an app which lets parents within a community ask for help with childcare and be rewarded for helping each other out, there was also the start of a reputation system and badges representing onchain certifications like DBS checks.
It didn’t quite get finished, but for someone who has never hands-on built a product before to get as far as she did and learn FlutterFlow and Supabase along the way, it was mighty impressive!
We’ll be running more of these hack nights over the next weeks and months so if you fancy coming to our next one, keep an eye on our Meetup.
See you soon!
Dan and the OPENFORMAT team 💜
