Hackathon Ideas

comic-book.md

Comic Book Creator

Description

This application allows users to create basic storyboards for comic books or movies. Each comic books should have many tiles. A user should be able to manage (create, read, update, and destroy) comic book tiles. Users can go into "Dark Mode" so that the UI simplifies so that you can focus on reading/presenting your storyboard.

Deliverables

• Trello Board including user stories, requirements, wireframes, etc..
• An API served using Microsoft Azure
  • SQL Server Database for storage hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • A Web API Application hosted on Microsoft Azure
• An API repository posted to Github
• An Ember Application served using surge.sh
• An Ember Application repository posted to Github

Requirements

• Users can manage comic book/storyboards
• Users can manage tiles which belong to a comic book/storyboard
• Users can go into "Dark Mode" to hide some of the UI so that the photos are front and center

Resources and Libraries (Suggested not required)

• Material Lite
• Ember Material Lite - Ember Addon
• Ember Data belongsTo
• Ember Data hasMany

job-tracker.md

Iron Job Tracker

Description

Allows user to track job applications and where their are at in the process. For example John gets a lead with a company for a possible job, he's able to create a lead on the website and start adding information about it (who to contact, which company, etc). Then he's able to able to track upcoming interviews with that lead he's created.

Deliverables

• Trello Board including user stories, requirements, wireframes, etc..
• An API served using Microsoft Azure
  • SQL Server Database for storage hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • A Web API Application hosted on Microsoft Azure
• An API repository posted to Github
• An Ember Application served using Divshot
• An Ember Application repository posted to Github

Requirements

• User is able to create and start a job hunt process.
• User is able to schedule upcoming interviews (and possible multiple interviews with one company)
• User may be able to store information on a job hunt lead like:
  • their resume
  • cover letter
  • contact information for a company
  • last contact with company and notes
• A dashboard that shows a list of their job hunts and a status of where each one is at.

Resources and Libraries (Suggested not required)

• Ember File upload component

parking.md

Parking app

Description

Allow a end user to search for parking in Downtown Little Rock. Users can also create "mark" a parking lot and enter details about the parking lot. Users can perform searches for parking lots on details like location to user, payment types accepted, free/non-free, etc.

Deliverables

• Trello Board including user stories, requirements, wireframes, etc..
• An API served using Microsoft Azure
  • SQL Server Database for storage hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • A Web API Application hosted on Microsoft Azure
• An API repository posted to Github
• An Ember Application served using Divshot
• An Ember Application repository posted to Github

Requirements

• App must use browser's geolocation for performing distance searches and also for marking new parking lots.
• Possible parking lots may contain data like:
  • lat/long location information
  • name of the parking lot
  • free or non-free
  • hours of operation

Resources and Libraries (Suggested not required)

• Materialize CSS
• Materialize - Ember Addon
• JS Geolocation
• Ember CLI G-Maps (Interact with Google Map Data From Ember)

secret-santa-survey.md

Secret Santa Survey

Description

This application allows users to track secret santa ideas for their friends and family. A user should be able to manage family members and then fill in a survey for each family member. This is based off of this linked PDF although the styles do not need to match (although you may want to style with festive colors).

Deliverables

• Trello Board or whiteboard including user stories, requirements, wireframes, etc..
• An API served using Microsoft Azure
  • SQL Server Database for storage hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • A Web API Application hosted on Microsoft Azure
• An API repository posted to Github
• An Ember Application served using surge.sh
• An Ember Application repository posted to Github

Requirements

• Users can manage friends
• Users can manage survey questions for each friend

Resources and Libraries (Suggested not required)

• Material Lite
• [Ember Material Lite - Ember Addon](http://mike.works/ember-material-lite
• Ember Data belongsTo
• Ember Data hasMany

tower.md

Iron Tower

Description

Iron Tower will be a web-based where the user builds a tower, floor by floor. Each floor once built can be either businesses (restaurants, shopping outlets, etc) or apartments. Apartments allow for certain numbers of residents which have to be available to work at businesses. Each business generates income over time based on the type of floor it is (the time and payout varry and increase for each floor higher you go). You may theme this game as you like and can vary the balancing (residents allowed in aparemnts, time to payout, etc).

Deliverables

• Trello Board including user stories, requirements, wireframes, etc..
• An API served using Microsoft Azure
  • SQL Server Database for storage hosted on Microsoft Azure
  • A Web API Application hosted on Microsoft Azure
• An API repository posted to Github
• An Ember Application served using Divshot
• An Ember Application repository posted to Github

Requirements

• User should have a cash balance
• User should be able to purchase floors
• User should receive cash based on floor income over time
• User should be able to create apartments which allow residents
• Residents should show up over time
• User should not be able to build new businesses without unemployed residents
• Developers should be able to configure game balancing with easy to get to variables

Resources and Libraries (Suggested not required)

• Hangfire (Timed jobs in .NET)
• Polling Ember Data Models