What happens when you give the RunKeeper crew two days to let imaginations run wild? A whole lot of awesome, I tell ya!
Our product team is always five steps ahead in terms of planning awesome updates to the app, but in the process, it seems each developer has some sort of other dream RunKeeper project they’d love work on if given the time. We decided to set two work days aside for engineers (and others throughout the company) to try to bring those to reality.
The community had lots of interesting ideas on what would make it into our first-ever hackathon, and many of the resulting hacks lined up with your hopes! There was a simple start widget for the home and lock screens on Android, much-improved data visualizations for your fitness reports, refreshed technology for GPS tracking, in-app strength training tracking, a pretty new website, and some ridiculously fun and motivating audio cues. And a few other things that are internal and top secret—for now :).
We’re cranking hard to turn some of these hacks into actual RunKeeper updates and features, so stay tuned! And in the meantime, the pictures and videos below are definitely worth (more than a) thousand words.
Kicking off some collaboration
Jacked Jim gears up for his commercial debut in the RoidKeeper strength training promotional video
This team gave a whole new meaning to the term long hours. (And garnished some awesome prizes in the process)
Makers of the aforementioned awesome audio cues hack demo their goods
A little hack to get some more real-time insights into our community
Working to build the perfect GPS algorithm
And this video really speaks to the need for that widget hack
One of our many rocking trophies
Cross-posted from the RunKeeper blog.
