{"id":4197,"date":"2015-09-28T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:05:34","slug":"uship-at-hacktx-fall-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/shipping-code\/uship-at-hacktx-fall-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"uShip at HackTX Fall 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at uShip, we love hackathons. Recently, some us went down to the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s annual hackathon, <a href=\"http:\/\/hacktx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HackTX<\/a>, hosting over 750 students from all over the state. As a company sponsor, we acted as mentors for the student hackers, helping them solve a wide range of problems &#8211; anything from general Android development to setting up a hosting provider and domain name. We even had a chance to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.uship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our API<\/a> and watch students integrate with it. We had a blast and enjoyed working with such bright people. It\u2019s great to see this kind of culture presented to developers at an early age, at such a fun event.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thai, a freshman computer science student at UT Austin, received a prize for hacking on our API.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4200\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ushipblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_table.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4200 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_table-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"uShip at HackTX Fall 2015\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_table-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_table-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_table-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">uShip at HackTX Fall 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4199\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_prize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4199\" src=\"https:\/\/ushipblogsubd.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/uship_hacktx2015_prize-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Thai receiving a prize for hacking on our API\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Thai receiving a prize for hacking on our API<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Do you love hackathons as much as we do? <a href=\"http:\/\/uship.applytojob.com\/apply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We&#8217;re hiring!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at uShip, we love hackathons. 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