I was there for the demos. At a hackathon, the wifi network should be up and running absolutely perfectly. It wasn't and as a result, several hackers, who had been up for 20+ hrs coding, weren't able to fully present their work. Really not fair.
I didn't get to catch Dispatch.io's demo, which looks like a cool product, but I did see several noteworthy ones, like joystick, peeq and story cloud.
forgive me for being crass... but i have to question the judgement in putting dispatch.io as a runner up to some of the other apps. not that the others were bad, but dispatch.io seems to be the real deal. a real problem, and an elegant solution.
Thanks for the sentiment! I'm one of the creators of dispatch.io, and I'm ecstatic with the response to our demo. I can't wait for us to clean things up and get dispatch.io out to real users. While the awards were handed out the presenters framed it as there being 4 winners and 2 other honorable mentions, with Gilt-ii also receiving a judge's award with extra distinction. I guess on those terms Gilt-ii won the most, but it doesn't take any of the joy out of it for me. :)