During the Mobile Hackathon contest which took place in Da Nang early this month, many IT applications received high appreciation from the judging board for their practical significance, and especially some of the technological products designed to help busy women ease the burden of shopping for their families.

Prize winners honoured at the contest

Organised by the Google Developers Group Mien Trung, the 3-day event attracted around 100 programmers, software and design engineers, and IT lovers from across the central region.  Each participating team wrote out a practical application within 24 hours, based on their developed ideas.  A total of 32 applications were presented at the contest.

Most notably, an application named ‘Aiship’, developed by team Aiship, won a prize in recognition of their potential talents.  Aiship is designed to connect white-collar employees and mothers of babies with shippers who want to earn money from their shipping activities.  The application’s developers were 29-year-old Vu Ngoc Bang, a computer programmer from the city-based Green Globe company, along with 2 of his friends.

Mr Bang said that this product was inspired by daily practical demands.  He explained that, during her pregnancy, his wife had crazy food cravings, especially for many types of snacks, but he could not buy them for her due to his busy work schedule.  Mr Bang, therefore, showed his determination to create this practical application.

To ensure the efficiency of such an IT application, Mr Bang stressed the need to create an ultimate trust between customers and shippers, and to develop a reasonable payment method.  He also hoped that his product will be perfected and then widely introduced to the general public very soon in order to meet the increasing demand for shopping activities.

In a similar vein, Team Storm received the highest number of votes from the public for their application called ‘Go Market’.  Their application aims to connect people who are too busy to shop with those who have lots of free time.  Then those with free time might help the busy people by doing their shopping and earn money for the service.

This practical application was jointly developed by 4 students from the city’s FPT Polytechnic junior college.  They were 24-year-old Dang Hoang Hai Dang, along with Nguyen Thanh Tam, Hoang Phi Hung and Nguyen Van Hieu, all aged 22.  

Dang said that he and his teammates felt very happy when they made their oral presentation to the contest’s judging board, and collected many constructive  recommendations from the board’s members in order to perfect the IT application.