Whether you’re an OTA, hotel, software vendor or an independent travel tech expert — we got you covered with great challenges that we have designed for both technical and business hackathon participants! With these challenges you don’t have to start from a blank slate — every challenge in the list supports a real world industry use case and is based on Winding Tree platform newest capabilities which we will be announcing at the hackathon.

This year our team will be awarding 3 x 1,000 euro prizes to teams for the best execution of one of these challenges. Of course, every team is welcome to work on their own ideas and company needs, picking a challenge though qualifies your team for a prize. Our base requirements for the teams are no more than 5 developers per team to keep it fair for everyone (if you have more than 5 — split into a separate team) and all submissions must be open source. In terms of forming teams — you’re welcome to team up with others around an idea or a challenge, join another team or join us as an existing company team, like AirFrance, AirCanada or Siesta PMS did last year. For reference, check out what teams picked to work on last year here.

Winding Tree hackathons — what they’re like

If you’re new to smart contracts and distribution on blockchain — please do join us for a beginner crash course on July 3 — we’re combining it with a happy hour ;) Our team will make sure you’re up to speed on all things decentralized, smart contracts, public blockchains, etc.

Review the challenges list below or jump directly to the list in Github. Feel free to post your questions, suggestions, comments on Github or drop us a line in the Google Group.

So far we got over 140 applications to join the upcoming #HackTravel Lisbon 2019 and we’re super excited to see a really good mix of companies and participants — from airlines and hotels to travel startups, established travel tech software companies and independent developers. We’re also happy to see that at least half of the participants will also be joining the business portion of the hackathon — our newest addition for non technical participants.

Official Challenges

#1: Blockchain based Metasearch

Create a simple metasearch — a website that lists all hotels accessible via Winding Tree platform in chosen location and redirect visitors to hotels’ website.

#2: Sell a Room

Enable your OTA to allow travellers to book a room in a hotel accessible via platform.

#3: Build Businesses Explorer

Build a webpage that lists organisations registered with Winding Tree and displays their computed trust value.

#4: Packages Booking

Book multiple services with one transaction via Winding Tree services.

#5: Authorization App

Build user friendly Authorization service.

#6: Receive Bookings from Winding Tree platform

Receive booking transactions from OTAs via Winding Tree and restrict them with trust level.

#7: Website Verification

Build a tool that verifies if the website of a company registered on Winding Tree really belongs to that company.

#8: Loyalty with Lif

Lif Loyalty — design a loyalty system for the platform where Lif is unified loyalty point for all types of businesses.

#9: Tours and Activities on Blockchain

Design the distribution of tours and activities via Winding Tree.

#10: Winding Tree vs. WWW in Travel

Compare the world wide web solutions available right now against WT, presents graphics with detailed comparisons and conclusions.

#11: Proof of Trust

Propose how to verify how trustworthy is an actor registered in the Winding Tree public key registry.