Save The Hacker Hackathon Produces Emergency Blood Donation Coordination via SMS

Save The Hacker Hackathon Produces Emergency Blood Donation Coordination via SMS

Mediocrity looms large. If you’re not careful, you can make coding less of a creative endeavor and more of a chore. One hackathon set out to fight mediocrity and stagnation head on – Save The Hacker.

A few weeks ago, the aptly named hackathon, Save The Hacker, brought 100 teams together in Chennai, India to build web and mobile apps for the fun of it, to keep the joy of creative coding alive. Sponsored by Freshdesk, Box, Google Cloud Platform and Twilio, Save The Hacker produced a ton of interesting projects ranging from coordinating emergency health services, to making SaaS projects more user friendly.

Infinite Loop: Getting Emergency Responders What They Need, Fast

In the wake of a disaster, emergency responders are the first to the scene to help victims. Hospitals and blood banks desperately need blood donations in order to be able properly treat patients. Each second counts for the disaster victims, so hospitals and emergency responders have to scramble to get blood donations. Infinite Loop helps them find donors easily and quickly via Twilio SMS.

Donors opt into the Android-based app, then hospitals can find donors in the region of the disaster and send out SMS notifications requesting donations. Donors who give blood won’t be asked for another six months, in accordance with health care mandates.

Carrot Keeps SaaS Users In The Loop, Automatically

Carrot lets you easily, and programmatically push messages to your users regarding bug fixes, updates and more. Instead of hassling with email campaigns for SaaS updates, or forgetting to tell users at all, Carrot does the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is drop a script tag your site and you’re good to go.

Check out more projects from Save The Hacker here. Congrats to all the teams that participated!