Hanju Kim / March 7, 2016 In this final Dev Week hackathon related post, I’m super excited to share that the overall event winning app “Shippt” utilized the Magnet in-app chat SDK as the core component to provide two-way customer communication. The rise of marketplaces such…
Hanju Kim / March 2, 2016 In my last blog post, I covered the winning Saus smart messaging app that was built on the Magnet Message SDK. Today I’d like to talk about our runner up winner, Screen Bay, which innovatively used the Magnet open messaging…
Hanju Kim / March 1, 2016 What do a high schooler, a data scientist, a product manager from France, an iOS developer/ entrepreneur and a growth hacker have in common? They are all members of the winning team at the recent Developer Week Hackathon sponsored by…
Hanju Kim / September 29, 2015 Over the weekend, Magnet sponsored the Integrate 2015 hackathon for developers, designers and entrepreneurs building apps. This hackathon is part of the larger Integrate 2015 event organized by DevNetwork that is taking place this week in Santa Clara, CA.
Hanju Kim / September 28, 2015 Teams of hackers competed for prizes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2015 September 19-20 in San Francisco. The weather was hot and so was the competition! We were pleased that 17 teams opted to use Magnet Message APIs to enhance their app…
Hanju Kim / September 3, 2015 One-to-one and one-to-many chat is often used for free-form communications between people or small teams. However, for many scenarios, chat is used to accomplish a specific goal. Giving users the ability to ask for help is one example of using…
Hanju Kim / August 31, 2015 Everyone seems to know now that chat messaging is hot. News pops up every day about mobile messaging and how it is changing the world. Much of the news is about about chat apps that are already out there – Whatsapp, WeChat, Viber, Tango, Line – the list runs longer than your arm, and the appetite is insatiable. This is on top of the fact that native mobile platforms have pretty decent messaging applications (iMessage, Google Messaging) built in.
Hanju Kim / August 26, 2015 Ready-Set-Go! Magnet’s Go Interactive Hackathon is now live featuring over $21,000 in cash and prizes…
Hanju Kim / August 21, 2015 Mobile technologies evolve at such a rapid pace that it is easy to miss critical transitions from one technology to another. This is particularly true for mobile messaging. Mobile messaging is a core technology in mobile apps. It has been…
Hanju Kim / August 19, 2015 Since launching Magnet Message a few months ago, we’ve had some interesting discussions with customers and developers. One of the fascinating discoveries is how differently people interpret the term “messaging”. For some, messaging just means chat. It is simply another…