Salesforce did a really smart job of hiding all other entries apart from the winning ones. I have done a few hackathons on Challenge Post earlier and this is the *only* one where they are not showing all submissions but only the winning submission in the gallery. While that is food for thought, I feel terrible for myself and some of the other awesome apps that folks built for this hackathon.

So, here are the top 5 apps that would have made the finals if I were judging this solely based on the videos I found on YouTube (and I've been doing software development for over 25 years). Just to be unbiased, this does not even include my own submission

* Smart
* Chatter Complete
* zip.ly
* Incoming
* Matt Lacey's app (Can't remember the name)

If I were to pick the top two, it would be Matt Lacey's app and Chatter Complete. I can't believe how those folks missed out.

Hello,

I was searching for what others are buliding and saw this app. While it looks good, I don't think this meets the requirements mentioned-

"Participants may begin forming their teams and working on their entry (each, an
“Entry” and, together, the “Entries”) as early as October 25, 2013. Each Entry
shall consist of a mobile application with a link to the working source code, the
application login credential, a written description and a brief demo video. Entries
must be completed and submitted between November 19, 2013 at 2:01 pm PST
and November 20, 2013 at 6:00 pm PST."

This app is available on App Store since Oct 25 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logalytics-for-salesforce/id694548466

Which clearly means that it was built prior to the hackathon announcement and should not be qualified as valid for hackathon. I have one similar app which I built a while back and put on app store but I'm writing another one from scratch just to comply with the rules.

Further, it looks like this guy Mike Leach is a Force.com MVP and works with Facebook. Even his MVP profile mentions the app - http://developer.force.com/mvp_profile_mike

No hard feelings but I do think this app should not be eligible.

May the best app win!

Congrats to Upshot, but they totally didn't follow the official rules of the Hackathon. 

This was in the official rules:

"The application you or your team submits must: 
... 
• have been developed solely as part of this Hackathon"

Here is "Upshot" being presented well before the Hackathon was even announced: 
http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/events/136920332/

Quite a farce.

Hello,

I was searching for what others are buliding and saw this app. While it looks good, I don't think this meets the requirements mentioned-

"Participants may begin forming their teams and working on their entry (each, an
“Entry” and, together, the “Entries”) as early as October 25, 2013. Each Entry
shall consist of a mobile application with a link to the working source code, the
application login credential, a written description and a brief demo video. Entries
must be completed and submitted between November 19, 2013 at 2:01 pm PST
and November 20, 2013 at 6:00 pm PST."

This app is available on App Store since Oct 25 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logalytics-for-salesforce/id694548466

Which clearly means that it was built prior to the hackathon announcement and should not be qualified as valid for hackathon. I have one similar app which I built a while back and put on app store but I'm writing another one from scratch just to comply with the rules.

Further, it looks like this guy Mike Leach is a Force.com MVP and works with Facebook. Even his MVP profile mentions the app - http://developer.force.com/mvp_profile_mike

No hard feelings but I do think this app should not be eligible.

May the best app win!