So we had an awesome time live-blogging from HackManchester this weekend, we just wanted to share some numbers, the team videos and the results with you before we fly off to Dublin for the Web Summit exhibition.
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Here are the numbers from HackManchester 2013
230 hackers
4% female
72 teams
Company Challenge Participation
18
AO.com
33
ClockWorkSMS
9
LateRooms
20
Layershift
20
WebApplicationsUK
Native Apps Developed
43
28
28
Preferred Languages
25% of the projects used JavaScript (incl. NodeJS).
9 used java,
17 used php,
16 used c#,
6 used python,
2 used ruby,
1 used play,
1 used haxe.
And last, but no least, the projects entered for challenged:
(These are all the submissions entered for the company challenges and the university challenge, winners of which are listed on the Live-Blog, if you don’t see one of the projects, or would like to add your hack, send us a tweet on @deskandco)





