The first Music Hack Day — organized by our very own Dave Haynes — was held in July 2009 in London, UK. Since then there have been over 3…
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9 Jul 2013
23 Jan 2013
Last weekend, we sponsored and attended our first PennApps, the world’s largest student run hackathon held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Nearly 500 students participated from a variety of universities across the US and elsewhere. Students were given 36 hours to get into teams, hack on projects, then show them off to the judges. The results were astounding.…
30 Aug 2012
Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read…
12 Jul 2012
A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions. I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After chatting with a few journalists, it became obvious to me that recording…
29 Jun 2012
SoundCloud loves hack days. Our latest hack day adventure brought us to Music Hack Day in Barcelona and we thought we’d share a bit of the great experience we had there. Photo by Thomas Bonte
11 Apr 2012
In the last weeks we got pretty excited about the idea of using timed comments to create and script rich media experiences. Imagine being able to trigger all kinds of visualizations & interactions for a timed comment while playing a track. Timed Comments with Media
19 Mar 2012
Over 3 months ago we started the “Hacker Time” initiative (see here) and now it is time for a recap what’s happened so far. From the outset…
14 Feb 2012
This past weekend, hundreds of hackers showed up at the TokBox HQ with a mission to build the future of music. The event started with pitches — giving sponsors a chance to show off their APIs — followed by in-depth workshops where attendees could learn more about each platform and ask questions related to their project. Once the hacking time…
3 Jan 2012
Last month we attended Music Hack Day London 2011. A special one, Music Hack Day was born in London 3 years ago and we were happy to attend a hack day again in it’s homeland. Picture For those who do not know of Music Hack Day, it’s a great weekend-long event aimed at music and sound hackers. Anyone can attend…
9 Dec 2011
At SoundCloud we like to invent new ideas. But we’re not adverse to implementing really great tried and tested ideas like the 20% time…
11 Nov 2011
Last weekend was another successful Music Hack Day Boston jam-packed with cool hacks, and hackers alike. We are always excited to get involved, meet new and interesting people, and of course hack!
29 May 2011
If you are looking for some inspiration for your next weekend hack project, here is a list of ideas that could be built using the SoundCloud platform. Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments!
11 May 2011
I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to help Moby premiere his new record via SoundCloud. I didn’t know what to expect from…
8 Oct 2010
Team SoundCloud hacking at Music Hack Day Barcelona Last weekend a team of SoundCloud attended Music Hack Day Barcelona. This blog post is…