Dayana Jabif and Agustín Haller are computer engineers who graduated from Universidad ORT Uruguay. While traveling through Europe for the past few months, they learned that TechCrunch, a technology-focused website, had organized the Disrupt Hackathon in Germany. So they traveled from Barcelona to Berlin with the firm intention of participating in the event.
The challenge was to create an app in 24 hours and give a one-minute presentation to the audience and the judges. Dayana and Agustín created Truly.am, an app that lets you verify the identity of the person you’re chatting with. The site itself says:“We love the web anonymous as it is, but sometimes when we do personal things on the web, we need a little less anonymity.”
The winning team at the Disrupt Hackathon received $5,000, a prize that Dayana and Agustín didn’t win, but they certainly didn’t go unnoticed in the competition: TechCrunch published an article on its website highlighting the Truly.am app as one of the coolest in the competition.
Watch the video of the presentation at the Disrupt Hackathon