The What
A hackathon is a design sprint-like event in which participants work together over a short period of time to create real functioning software.
The Goal
Solve a known Verblio business/user problem using technology. Demo the solution at the end of the week. Be judged.
Not-so-secret-other-goal: Nurture the spirit of innovation across our company. Get a marketing person dreaming big with a dev and an ops person and watch what happens.
The When
We did ~24 hours over the course of a week instead of 24-straight hours because a 24-hour zoom call sounds like a nightmare.
The Prizes
There were fancier prizes than this but who cares because look at that iridescent corkscrew:
It is magnificent.
The Teams
WD-40
Reducing Friction to writers finding great work.
Feed-Hack
Customers should find giving feedback to writers easy, fun and VALUABLE.
Verblio’s Uban Planning Committee
Civilizing the Wild West with writer certifications and improved audition process.
Optimize Prime
“Optimization is the right of all sentient content”
Delightning
Customers should LOVE Verblio by receiving great content as soon as possible.
The Week
Monday
Tuesday
Our daily slack team challenge mandates that we upload screenshots posing with the things we love:
Wednesday
We’re starting to feel it.
Thursday
Team slack challenge: “Where’s the lie?!” in which we try to spot untruths about our esteemed colleagues…
Friday
IT’S GO TIME.
The Judges
- Steve Pockross, CEO, Verblio
- Cheryl Gunn, SVP of Operations, LiveOps (heads up all of Client Results and Workforce (agent community, QA, Training))
- Molly Krumholz, writer community manager + data guru, formerly at Blog Mutt / Verblio
- Holly Trytten, Director of Platform Technology, Yara International (also formerly at LiveOps)
The Swag
And the winner Is…
Optimize Prime!
By the skin of their teeth…
We laughed, we cried, we built cool stuff. And now…
