Startup Asia Jakarta 2013 hackathon: the winners

While Startup Asia Jakarta 2013 wrapped up last week, the event’s hackathon participants were still busy coding and preparing their four-minute pitches for the final round on Saturday. Around 100 finalists came down to battle in a number of challenges. Here are the winners:

Microsoft Challenge

Microsoft’s challenge is simple: build the best Windows 8 game. The three winners who each get a Windows 8 tablet are:

• Right or Left, a game whereby you need only to choose which way the levers should be pulled to run the machines, by Yanuar Arifin, Mirza Hikmatyar, Lugas Adhi Prasetyo, and Nisa Puspaningtyas Yudana.
• Numeron, a math puzzle game by Ahmad Fauzan and Martha Monica.
• Dice Roller, a 3D rolling dice game by Prisyafandiafif Charifa and Gilbran Imami.

Progress Challenge

The challenge is to create an app from scratch using Progress Rollbase Hosted Cloud. The winners are Deni Lukmanul Hakim, Ginda Sanjaya, and Firman Logama. They made a barcode scanning app whereby users can access product information like the cheapest available price and promos on both mobile and a full website.

The three-man team must be very happy boys now as they snatch a 13-inch Macbook Air from this challenge.

Opera Challenge

Three teams who won this challenge built an extension web app for Opera browser. They are:

• 1st place: Triped, an app which lets users plan for a backpacking trip together on a specific budget, by Muhar Dwi P., Moniko Putro, and Parlinggoman Hasibuan.
• 2nd place: Stellarion, this is a space shooter game that sets its difficulty based on the richness of the webpage content. It’s developed by Mohamad Rizky Ramadhan.
• 3rd place: an app where users can use photo filters and share it on social media. It’s built by Akhi Haruni Nur Rahayu, Rahmawati Nafi’ah, Rais Rahman Ardian, and Sidik Nurcahyo.

SAP Challenge

SAP challenges participants to demonstrate the applicability of SAP HANA on Indonesia-specific social problems or business opportunities. It was a very tight match between team 5 (Bayu Setyawan, Dea Venditama, M. Fahmi Al-Azhar, and Rr. Nefriana) who built a job notification system using Natural Language Programming that can crawl users’ social media posts and match them up with suitable jobs on the Freelancer website, and team 25 (Radita Liem, Iswanto Arif, and Ricky Christie) who built Fitme, a mobile app to find and book doctors and other health related services.

In the end, the winner is Fitme. The team gets a four-day trip to Singapore as well as a chance to work and learn alongside SAP developers there.

Freelancer Challenge

The aforementioned team 5 triumphed in the Freelancer challenge. The company asks the participants to propose their ideas on how to improve the company’s current messaging system between employers and freelancers.

Kii Challenge

This is the most popular challenge in this hackathon, with over 25 teams battling it out for the top prize – $1,000 as well as a trip to Japan! The challenge is to utilize Kii Cloud system to make the most awesome app possible.

Here are the happy fellas:

• 1st place: Appaja, a navigational iPhone app for users who want to travel in Jakarta using public transportation. It’s developed by Robin Dutheil, Daisy Darmawati, and Mansoor Riaaz.
• 2nd place: Animatch lets people battle with other users in a turn-by-turn match-three Android game. The makers are Ecky Putradi and Dimas Ciputra.
• 3rd place: Numeron, this is the second award for the math puzzle game makers, Ahmad Fauzan and Martha Monica (they also won the Microsoft Challenge).

Telkomsel Challenge

Clickatell Challenge

Cyrus Challenge

BuzzCity Challenge

Intel Challenge

Nexmo Challenge

Admob Challenge

Millennial Media Challenge (to be announced)

Shopify Challenge

JalanTikus Challenge

Overall winners