AngelHack Manila
Hacking is a dreaded word for the layman. But on this side of the world, AngelHack Manila is a form of blessing for developers and start-up entrepreneurs.
Touted at the biggest hackathon in the world, AngelHack is an organized series of competition among program developers who have a creative knack for applications addressing a need or a problem within a particular industry.
Ideas, ideas, ideas
This year, with over multiple hackathons involving at least 6,000 developers and 30+ cities, angels descended on the Philippines as AngelHack Manila with the main support from Smart Developer Network and IdeaSpace Foundation.
AngelHack Manila
The contest proper happened last June 8 & 9 at the Voyager Innovations and Chikka offices in Anson Building, ADB Avenue, Ortigas. The Manila leg coincides with AngekHacks in Seoul, Bogota, Washington DC, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur.
Voyager innovation office entrance & AngelHack Manila Registration Area
AngelHack Manila Venue
Paul Pajo of SmartDevNet, one of AngelHack Manila Organizer
I learned a new word – Ideation - or learning/forming of new ideas before the actual hacking
Mentors
Some industry experts also gave their valuable time as mentors. Some of which came from from Asian Institute of Management, Orange and Bronze, and Galleon.ph’s Jeffrey Siy.
Mentor Jeffrey Siy (co-founder of Galleon.ph) giving advise to one of the teams.
Judges
Tech Crunch writer Josh Constine was one of the judges (photo by Mozilla Philippines used with permission)
AngelHack cofounder and CEO Greg Gopman also mentioned that “Manila is a hotbed for developer talent, not just in Southeast Asia, but worldwide. I’m super stoked to see who will win.”
The tech-savvy panel of judges included Exist and Morphlabs founder Winston Damarillo, Metrodeal founder Raph Munsch, Microsoft’s Alvin Gendrano, CashCashPinoy founder Frederic Levy, International Graphic Designer Jay Yao, SeedAsia’s Beryl Li, Shoephoric founder Ann Jacobe, and technology journalist and writer for TechCrunch – Josh Constine.
AngelHack Manila Team “Divided by Zero” with Mr. Ebenezer Uy (standing)
Application for automated exam in coding by HackBlitz,
An application which generates information in 3D rendition with Google Maps and more for the real-estate industry
2013 Grand Winners
Among the 250+ developers and 40+ teams who spent 24 hours coding overnight, Pagesnapp emerged victorious and was declared as the 1st AngelHack Manila winner in the Philippines.
Pagesnapp is a mobile application that enables the user to create his/her own personal app complete with updates and photos direct from the smartphone. To make the process simpler, it is connected to a corresponding Facebook page where the data can be pulled.
More Angelhack Manila Photos
AngelHack Manila Team composed of St. Benilde alumni
Intense programming and coding for 24 hours straight!
Hacking workstations from June 8 until the next day.
The winning team comprised of Rolly Rulete, Marvin Consuegra, Raymund Delfin, Mio Galang, and Jay Albano; four of which hailed from Davao City, south of the Philippines.
The AngelHack Manila grand winners received about $10,000 cash prizes and will be mentored by IdeaSpace. They will also join the AngelHack Accelerator Program on September in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley where the best ideas can get US$100,000 in incubation fund.
In a quote from Interaksyon, AngelHack cofounder and CEO Greg Gopman said that “their service solves the problem of a lot of small businesses, which is to get their products and offerings to as many people as possible.”
The $20,000 Google Apps credits special award went to Zander team while special Blackberry prizes were received by 9 teams including HackBlitz and Pagesnapp for having made their applications Blackberry devices compatible.
Team HackBlitz was one of the teams which received Blackberry prizes for having made their applications Blackberry devices compatible. The other winning teams were Thingamadibs, Konvoy, MailBug, UlapResto, TravelBud, Pagesnapp,MindHub and Capicar
Organizers, Local & Global Sponsors
AngelHack Manila was organized by AngelHack Philippine Ambassadors Erlyn Hinojas & Diego Ramos from Asia Pacific Venture Partners and Elaine Cedillo of Hamok.com Enterprises, Inc.
Other organizers include Paul Pajo, Jim Ayson, & Marica Uchida from SmartDevNet, and Earl Valencia & Nick Wilwayco of IdeaSpacePH.
AngelHack Philippine Ambassadors Diego “DJ” Ramos from Asia Pacific Venture Partners
Mozilla Firefox Philipines is one of AngelHack Manila Partners. Mozilla Firefox Members Bob Reyes (left) and Eusebio Barrun, jr (right) in photo
Food for the brain during breaktime and meals to fuel the stamina of the programmers
AngelHack Manila is supported by IdeaSpace Foundation, Smart Developer Network, E27, Google Developers, Voyager, Chikka, Mobile TAO, DevCon, RideIn, Orange & Bronze, infinite.ly, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Philippines, freelancer.ph, 1337 Ventures, Hobby Mash, San Miguel Falvored Beer, BlackBerry, Shoephoric, and SourcePad.
Globally, AngelHack is sponsored by Aws, Gdg, Paypal, Tropo, Snapfish by HP, Facebook, Sap, Context-io, Intel, Wix, Google, E27, Voicebunny, Paymill, Mailchimp, Mailjet, Me, Beats-by-dre, Yammer, Elance, Kindle-fire, Prepr, Battle-hack, Pearson, Singly, Pillsbury, Cloudmine, Youisnow, Nokia, HR-cloud, Docusign, Filepicker-io, Phonegap, Showkit, Samsung, Velossent, Alley-nyc, Firebase, Microsoft, E27, Interaksyon and TechCrunch are AngelHack Manila media partners.
Check their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/AngelHackManila
See you at the next AngelHack Manila!
Onwards to the next AngelHack Manila!
Jonel Uy is the EIC of BloggerManila.com. Graduating from UP Diliman with a degree in Computer Science, he is also the Managing Director of #DigitalCircles.asia engaging and amplifying social media campaigns for brands. On Mondays, he teaches information technology classes at Grace Christian College.
Know more about him at JonelUy.com 
Congratulations to Pagesnapp!
Kudos to PageSnapp as they will be on their way to Silicon Valley soon!
Great to see Benildeans there!
Oh right, you’re also a Benildean now!
It was great meeting them there!
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