The Lucky Wheel
Hackathon

What is a hackathon?

A sprint-like event where participants team up and create solutions to real-life challenges in an intense period of time. Using creativity, technology and mentoring, the week results in prototypes, fresh new concepts and innovation.

What is the Lucky Wheel online hackathon about?

This is a unique online competition where the participants combine randomly selected APIs from the below list to create an entertaining game.

Joker (you can freely select one from the listed Browser APIs)

You must write your application using ES2020. You may do it in typescript or use flow if you wish.

Where is the Lucky Wheel Hackathon organized?

The event is held 100% online. We use open Slack workspace as the main platform for communication and Junction App for the hackathon submissions.

Who owns the intellectual property of the hackathon projects?

The intellectual property of the solutions belongs to the teams. In case of interest by Jasmin IP, the company will offer to purchase the rights after the competition by separate arrangement.

What are the evaluation criterias?

The proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the following criterias:

• Technology (max 50 credits)
• Usability, attractiveness (max 30 credits)
• Entertainment, fun level (max 20 credits)
• Additional credits - using any additional Browser API from the list will add +5 credits to the total points

Is participation free of charge?

Yes, the hackathon is free to enter.

Can I participate alone?

Yes, but we can also assign you to a team if you wish so. Teams of 2-5 can register together.

How do I register a team?

All registration related things happen on the Junction App.

1. When registering on the Junction App, choose Yes when asked if you’re applying as a team.
2. Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to Team page.
3. If you’re the team lead, click Create a new team. Otherwise go to step 5.
4. The platform now generates you a unique team code. Send this team code to your team members.
5. If you’re a member of a team, ask your team lead for the team code. Go to the same Team page and insert the team code to Join an existing team. If you haven’t received a code from your team lead, ask the team lead to follow these instructions.

Link sharing is not possible through the Junction App, so please share the team code between all team members for example by email.

What are the requirements for submitting a solution?

The team must apply all 3 Browser APIs in the project, and all 3 APIs must have a relevant role in the gameplay. You may use any other API as well.

When submitting your project please provide a link to the project's github repository (public or private), source code to be easily read, understood with a quick readme.md that includes:

• a 2 mins video explaining the game and the technical details of it's internals
• information on how to build and run the project
• a working link to the game's mobile website with notes on how to try the game on a mobile device
• any restrictions on the mobile device we need to use to try the game

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