Quote from: jones_ on July 16, 2015, 04:28:15 AM

I've been in the cryptocurrency space as a developer for a little over a year and a half now, and I have realized that there are so many cool ideas that have yet to come to the surface with this technology.

Personally I use Nxt as a platform because it has so many features that make it incredibly interesting to develop on. I decided that the best way to get some new ideas off of the ground was to have a hackathon centered around the API of Nxt, and with some help I have been able to do this.

Some information - http://jnxt.org/nxthacks

Date: 11:59PM (GMT+0) July 31st to 11:59PM (GMT-0) August 2nd (48 hours)

Prizes:
1st Place - 40'000 NXT (~$500)
2nd Place - 20'000 NXT (~$250)
3rd Place - 10'000 NXT (~$125)
The winners will be decided through a vote of all competitors and contributors to the hackathon.

Rules:
- Must be completed in the allotted 48 hours
- Must utilize one or more featurs of the Nxt API (http://jnxt.org:7876/test)
- Only solo entries are considered for prizes, teams can compete, but don't qualify for prizes.

You can use any programming language you would like, though js, node.js, python, or php are most common.

More information:
The sign up and information page http://jnxt.org/nxthacks

Introduction video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrL3WcReJyo
The Nxtforum thread https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/testing-the-waters-an-nxt-hackathon/

And for the most up to date information and the chat that we will use for the competition is the #nxthacks channel on supernet slack (http://slackinvite.supernet.org to gain entry)
There will be many people, including myself, to answer any questions and help with problems during the hackathon.

* an in advance answer to the 'nxt is a scam' people:

No matter what you believe nxt to be, a scam, or a useless alt coin, it does have a very large API with many cool features that can be used to build cool little applications. I believe it is worth a try for a developer no matter what your skill level or language is.

this is so great, good luck guys, hope it's a success!!!!