{"id":21,"date":"2013-05-22T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topspotims.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:08:32","slug":"houston-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topspotims.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/houston-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"TopSpot Participates in City of Houston\u2019s First Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-542 aligncenter\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2013\/05\/houstonhackathonpanoramic.jpg\" alt=\"Houston Hackathon Panoramic\" width=\"810\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, I participated in the <a title=\"2013 Houston Hackathon\" href=\"http:\/\/houstonhackathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Hackathon<\/a> along with three of my TopSpot colleagues, Joshua and Brandon from <a title=\"TopSpot Web Design\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/website-design-and-development\/\">Web Design<\/a> and Michelle from our <a title=\"TopSpot Tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspot.com\/analytics\/\">Tracking<\/a> department. What is a hackathon? In short, we had 24-hours to develop an app or a website that would benefit and aid the city and\/or the citizens of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>As the food truck industry in Houston is growing, we decided to create a simple, easy-to-use, Houston Certified Food Truck Finder responsive website, where food truck owners could pinpoint their current location at the push of a button, while Houston citizens could find the nearest certified food truck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCertified you say?\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2013\/05\/topspothackathon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Team Geek Coding\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Yes, as in, officially certified by the City of Houston. We would achieve this by linking the responsive website to the City of Houston\u2019s Garrison database and match the food truck\u2019s account ID when they create a profile to the account IDs in the City of Houston Health and Human Services Department\u2019s Last Facility Inspection Report. If the food truck is not certified, the owner will not be able to create an account. Food truck owners would need to possess a score of 3 or higher on their latest inspection to be displayed in the search results. That would allow the site to display only the food trucks with stellar inspections to the citizens of Houston.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWinning\u2019s not everything\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nAlas, we did not win Houston\u2019s First Hackathon. However, we met cool, talented and creative developers and City of Houston officials. While talking with another participant of the Hackathon, we realized that objective was not for TopSpot Internet Marketing to win, but for the City of Houston to be recognized as a technologically advanced city. Why does Austin have an Apple and Facebook office and not Houston? We need to show the nation that have the means and brains to be \u2013 who knows? \u2013 the next Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s always next year\u2026\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2026and we\u2019ll be there, ready to take on the challenge and make new friends. 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