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‘If We Had Glass’ Hackathon

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25 pointsozziegooen18 comments

It's not from Google. This is only a hackathon to come up with ideas to enter in the #ifihadglass hackathon. There is no official affiliation.

The website was not optimized for mobile; because of the time limitations (contest just announced, ending in a week) everything had to be put together quite quickly.

Doesn't work properly in firefox, either. Not optimizing for mobile is fine. Yeah, it'd be nice, but it is an "extra" thing. having content cutting off in a major desktop browser on a large (1920x1200) screen? No excuse.

edit: Doesn't work in opera either, but it's not as bad.

Plenty of excuse, Google announced this merely a day ago, the hackathon is on Saturday.

Extremely limited amount of time + demand for applicants, I think it's ok to overlook a few things here and there on the website :D

That we deserve. It's fixed.

This site is so goddamn weird, it might as well have been a parody site, if I didn't know it was an unofficial hackathon.

It seems that they are trying pretty hard not to make that clear.

>If chosen, you will not purchase a ticket of $1500 plus tax.

That's some strange wording. Could you clarify what it means?

I presume it's a parody of Google saying "Hey, if you 'win' the chance to get a set of Google Glasses, you still need to pay $1500 + tax to get a pair".

It sounds like a joke: Using Google+ or Twitter, tell us what you would do if you could brainstorm ideas for Glass ... Google+ applicants will likely be ignored.

The site should be back up. We were using https://www.site44.com/ , had to upgrade with increased load. (site44 is pretty awesome btw)

I'm confused. Firstly, the text in the header is not readable on mobile because it's the exact same colour as his jacket. Second, are they flying the winners to SF? Third, is the $1500 implying that you get a Google Glass for free? Fourth, is this a Google event or a 3rd party? It looks like an official Google site. Unclear. This was after one readthrough on my phone. Maybe I missed a FAQ link...

It's an unofficial brainstorming session, where all you get to do is brainstorm with others about how to best apply for Google's contest.

It seems like people really aren't understanding this.

The site is a parody of google's own "If I had glass" site that launched yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5249820

They are looking for applicants to work together in a hackathon type enviornment to come up with ideas for the actual "if I had glass" applications. Pretty smart IMO...

There is a repeating error in the first paragraph.

This is extremely weird..I am speechless..

What an oddly specific parody.

What a joke

the site went down.

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