Best Student Team and People Choice at THack Mallorca
tnooz
May 2016
THack - travel hackathon organized by TNooz with more than 60 student and professional developers tackled contest challenges including two popular topics: spontaneous travel inspiration and assistance by new messaging bots to ease search drudgery. Our team of three students – captured the essence of what millennials say they prefer in travel: • authentic experiences instead of ticking boxes in guidebooks • social media interactions to find and share those experiences Our team built a messenger bot drawing information from Hotelbeds and Rome2Rio APIs. The project won prizes as Best Student Team and People Choice in a vote by developers for total winnings of Euro 2,000. And also a best student team by Hotelbeds Hotels and Hotelbeds