The app-of-the-moment, Yo, tried to prove it's more than just a silly gimmick on Sunday by hosting a hackathon in the heart of San Francisco. What resulted from the day was a whole slew of incredibly innovative takes on the app, effectively demonstrating that Yo can continue to grow.
One of the adaptations created during the hackathon was dreamt up by Virginia Tech Entrepreneur Club President Hayden Lee and his brother Jarryd Lee, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Their app, YoServerIsDown, was written in NuSpark, a young incubator adjacent to Virginia Tech.
Basically, the app would send a yo notification to a subscriber whenever a server went down, hence the name. The user would create a Yo API handle like MyServerIsDown, email api@justyo.co with their API handle to receive their API key, subscribe by sending a Yo to their API handle, enter the website they want to check, submit their API key and then, after clicking Yo, get pinged once every five minutes if the designated server was down.
A simple process with a quirky twist, it makes sense that YoServerIsDown earned the No. 1 spot on Product Hunt Sunday.
Another unique hack presented was "Yoaster," which would send a yo when a piece of bread was toasted to perfection.
It's abundantly clear that Yo is trying to add value to the app, coming up with new ways for Yo to be more than just the pit of the latest programmer joke.
