Hack week is an annual fixture right here at Dotdigital. Because the 12 months winds down, the Product and Know-how groups take day out to create, innovate, and experiment. We goal to push our platform in new instructions and to plant the seeds of options that can sooner or later be a part of the Dotdigital product.
Collaborate to innovate
Within the lead-up to hack week, any employees member can pitch an thought. These concepts would possibly take inspiration from our roadmap, contain attempting out an rising know-how, or just goal to resolve a ache level. Some years have a theme; this 12 months, groups had been inspired to construct each for and with AI.
Hackers – together with engineers, information scientists, and QAs – type small teams and undertake these concepts, or provide you with their very own schemes. Every group has 4 days to work on their mission and put together a brief video presentation. Judges are appointed from throughout the corporate to select their winners in three classes (most wished, most progressive, and finest video). There’s a stay viewers vote in two additional classes (finest workforce identify and finest hack).
2023 noticed an distinctive crop of hacks with some very spectacular movies. Let’s get to it.
Most wished (and finest hack)
Hack identify: That feeling while you look down expectantly for the second half of your sandwich solely to realize that you simply’ve already eaten it
Workforce identify: HappierKat!
The profitable hack in essentially the most wished class takes information submitted in surveys, pages and kinds and shops this as perception information. This unlocks numerous capabilities, comparable to with the ability to customise the e-mail despatched to type respondents. By pushing submitted information into an perception information assortment, we are able to additionally use this information in program choice nodes to set advertising preferences, primarily based on checked values within the submission.
In addition to being picked by the judges, Workforce HappierKat additionally noticed off robust competitors to be voted finest hack by the viewers.
Finest video
Hack identify: GPTranslatortron: Automate translations for in–app assist, app translations, marketing campaign translations, and maybe even chat
Workforce identify: Misplaced in Translation
Our platform is already accessible in 15 languages, however can we use WinstonAI to automate translation as we add extra options? Even higher, can we provide translation for the textual content that retailers enter into Simple Editor? Can we allow translation in chat threads? GPTranslatortron delivers a powerful Sure to all of those questions.
Most progressive
Hack identify: Dotdigital Automation Alchemists: Utilizing pure language to automate Program era utilizing GPT4, RAG, and customized fashions
Workforce identify: Workforce Automation Innovate (Workforce AI)
Impressed by the concept program constructing could possibly be automated to avoid wasting time and price, this hack explored the usage of retrieval-augmented era to show ChatGPT about our packages. The workforce used Microsoft’s Azure AI Search platform to retailer and index vector embeddings, which then allowed WinstonAI to interpret a immediate containing a program description like:
At 1 pm on the day the contact is created, ship the message “Hi there there Basic Kenobi you’re a daring one.”
Finest workforce identify
That feeling while you look down expectantly for the second half of your sandwich solely to realize that you simply’ve already eaten it
Arguably the longest and silliest workforce identify within the historical past of hack week, That feeling … sandwich swept the board with over 40% of the favored vote.
Notable point out
Hack identify: Watercooler Roulette
Workforce identify: Tradition Catalyst
A worthy runner-up in the perfect video class, this hack was all about workforce bonding and morale for distant groups. A collection of Slack messages immediate interactions and conversations between staff who won’t have the chance to satisfy in individual round a bodily water cooler.
