How to Successfully Launch Your API at a Hackathon

They call it a hackathon, hack day, hackfest, or even codefest. Organizations and enterprises are increasingly holding hackathons as a great way to drive innovation and creativity. It’s also a great way to launch your API and unleash creative chaos with software developers, graphic and user experience designers, and anyone simply interested in coding and staying up all night. The goal is fairly simple: create an app that uses an API or set of APIs in a unique way that elegantly solves a problem. Most hackathons hold a contest and vote on the best app. This drives the spirit of healthy competition while attracting motivated developers to participate.