Tell us about a time you built something awesome in code. How did you choose it? Why did you enjoy it?
Prior to college, I built a point of sale system usable on Android devices. The project stemmed from my time as a summer camp teacher - at the time, we sold food and snacks to kids throughout the day, but had no good way of tracking sales (we used an Excel spreadsheet for some time..!). I ended up spending part of the summer building out the product and validating its use cases with the camp owners and a few surrounding small businesses. Over time, I worked in more advanced use cases such as integrating flows for Square and PayPal, and product search/lookup using the Factual API. The process was great in having a small, weekly feedback loop on the needs and functions of the product.
Tell us about what you hope to learn this summer and why is HackNY right for you.
I'm interested in being at a startup that’s already had some success. Much of my experience has been in working on small-scale projects