Silver Sponsor: Pusher
Pusher is a hosted service that allows developers to quickly and easily add realtime functionality into their web and mobile applications.
Their goal is to take away the management and operations of a company's realtime infrastructure, so that developers can focus energy on the features of their product that make them unique.
Realtime is an important trend in application development and leads to greater engagement and retention with your customers. Pusher allows people to stay involved with an application, getting new data as it is created without having to refresh.
They provide client libraries for HTML5, iOS, Android and more to allow clients to connect to their services, and a simple REST API for publishing messages from your server. They allow developers to have the benefits of realtime without having to re-architect their applications, or learn new languages and frameworks.
Pusher's customers use the service to build collaborative tools, social networks, multiplayer games and they are used by startups and large companies alike.
Please visit pusher.com to learn more!
Challenge
Best use of the Pusher API.
Pusher are looking for the most innovative use of their push notification API. Whatever your grand vision is for your Hack, if you can work a cool use for the push notifications in then you'll be eligible to win this challenge.
Check out Pusher's API here: pusher.com/docs/server_api_guide