Friendly reminder for hackathons, a great idea is better than a great app.

I saw amazing creations, from a virtual reality rowing machine to a camera that read a Connect 4 game into a AWS server live.

Yet, the hack that won the popular vote was an app that would tell your friend, through texts, where you were when you're heading over to pick them up.

A simple concept to implement, but a great idea.

@h3ll Wow, that is pretty much what the app does. Here's Here's (hehe) description

At its core, Here is a location-aware texting service. Here allows the user to input their destination and a phone number, and then does the rest in the background, saving users both time and frustration. Here will send the friend a text when the ride is "initiated" (with the simple press of the Start button) as well as send a "warning" text (ranging from 5 min to 20 min, depending on the length of the trip) before finally sending an "arriving" text (when the user is 1 min out, so that the meet up can be seamless). Here uses the native messaging client, so that it appears to the friend as if the user themselves is actually sending the text. Once the ride is initiated, Here sends the user to Google Maps, so the user can focus on directions while the "warning" and "arriving" texts send in the background.