Pincast New York: Street-Level Audio Hackathon

​[EVENT 19 in TappedX's 30 for 30 November Event Marathon]

THE COMPETITION
Join us as NYC's top developers + the city's most dynamic gamers, audio creators, founders, and investors converge, pitch ideas, form teams, and compete to hack together the world's first scaled audio/AI/chat real-world interactive experiences.

THE TIMEFRAME
Teams will have three days to produce and submit their projects.

THE STAKES
The winning teams will be widely celebrated and will have the chance to develop direct connections to our high-profile cohort of hackathon judges and organizers.

THE PLATFORM
Pincast is a platform for location-based gaming and social audio built for creators and developers. The Pincast SDK enables your team and your audience to create and interact with:

🟣 Real-world audio scavenger hunts
🟣 Interactive journalism
🟣 AI-audience outdoor collaborations
🟣 Hyperlocal music promotion and discovery
🟣 Location-related datasets: text-to-speech conversions
🟣 Convert audiobooks to real-world audio treks
🟣 Neighborhood oral history projects
🟣 Daily hyperlocal neighborhood reports
🔵 1000s of location-based ideas no one other than you has thought of yet

THE ZONE
All hackathon projects will be built to run in the same geofenced neighborhood in NYC, giving locals and neighbors a wide variety of experiences to enjoy at the same time, thus turning the flywheel and generating 20x momentum for all projects. Neighborhood TBA.

THE AGENDA
5-5:45 Intros + Networking
5:45-6 Hackathon Challenge, Rules, and Platform Intro
6-6:30 Pitches
6:30-8:00 Team Formation and Planning

THE ORGANIZERS
Ilias Anwar
Alisha Outridge
Andrew MacDowell