Very interesting to see how much more popular Android is for hackathons. I imagine it's because you don't need a dev account, easy to deploy to a device/share APKs, and the APIs have fewer limits. But if you ask this same survey of actual startups, most go iOS first for the $$$.
Two surprises that caught my eye were Azure beating AWS by more than 30% (416 projects to 307) and Unity3d smoking Unreal (1174 projects to 64 projects)
This is great data. As a former/recovering evangelist, it's great to see how these things work at a macro level. You always keep track of your own data, hacks, etc but don't have a good idea of what happens at the hackathons you didn't attend or for the APIs - colleagues or competitors - you're not tracking.<p>+1 to ChallengePost/DevPost for sharing all this.
I'm amazed to see Lua higher than Go, JSP, Scala, and some other stuff students would be more likely to be exposed to. Maybe students are doing a lot of NGINX stuff ?<p>I'm also glad to see PHP high on the list. Good to know it isn't going anywhere anytime soon, especially with all the work FB is putting into it.
I'm surprised to see MongoDB as #1 in the db list, is it really now taught at colleges?<p>My favorite article on MongoDB: <a href="http://nyeggen.com/post/2013-10-18-the-genius-and-folly-of-mongodb/" rel="nofollow">http://nyeggen.com/post/2013-10-18-the-genius-and-folly-of-m...</a>
Though I wish there was more innovation happening in real estate, a part of me is pretty happy to have approximately 0 college students building apps in our vertical. That's the perk of building software only older people care about for an industry where you still have to talk to adults all day to get anything done (luckily I have some great adults on my team who do most of the talking).
This is Devpost's, (formerly ChallengePost - oh yeah, we also changed our name today), Student Hacker Report. We looked at & ranked project tags from a sample of 13,281 student hackers who participated in 160 student hackathons and submitted 9,898 projects, either in hackathons or on their Devpost portfolios.
As someone who's spent a lot of time with both developer relations and Hackathons in general, here are my top 5 insights from this analysis.<p>1. The Major League Hacking hardware lab is HUGE for hardware companies. Top 5 have all been there since day zero. New additional are all rising. <a href="http://mlh.io/hardware-lab" rel="nofollow">http://mlh.io/hardware-lab</a><p>2. In every API category, the companies with the best developer relations programs are in the top 3 performers, usually #1 and #2.<p>3. There are big opportunities for companies in the Geo, Music, Database, and Game Engine spaces to win with student hackers.<p>4. Now is a great time to be in developer event marketing. We're heading for a data revolution no other event marketing industry has.<p>5. Node.js IS actually the one true dev language (JK)
awesome startup and team.... stoked to have angel invested in this one five years ago and watched them go 100% dev (they used to do all kinds of challenges). lots of great stuff coming as well!
I "mentored" at hack beanpot in Boston and was totally surprised by how much native mobile development was happening. Nearly every entry was a native mobile app.