AngelHack Toronto (#AngelHackTO) seemed like a great way to meet people and work on a great idea so I went on my own not knowing what to expect and met up with some talented teams with great ideas. After being invited to join a couple of teams, I decided to join up with VitaQ because it seemed like a real problem that needed to be solved.
The AngelHack Toronto hackathon was a two-day coding sprint where designers, business analysts, front-end and back-end developers get together and build something great in under 24 hours. Some people don’t sleep. Luckily there was lots of candy and energy drinks for those of us who worked on the project late into the night.
I joined up with the VitaQ team and we worked on a prototype for a cloud service that would allow you to create tailored resumes to target employers from a database of experiences. Add all your work and education experiences, tag them, and then pick and choose which ones you want to include on a per-resume basis.
The prrototypes the VitaQ team built out during AngelHack included an iPhone app and a website. I helped out on the front-end development for the web-based prototype.
The bulk of the functionality is something that can definitely be implemented with the content management systems I work with, and though I wasn’t handling the back-end portion of this, I could see lots of possibilities for development in ProcessWire and Drupal. To fairly divy up the work and more effectively utilize all of the talents of the team, the solution we went with was xwiki.
Here’s a picture of a static subscription page that accepts payment using the Paypal API.
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