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The Rightmove Tech Podcast brings you news, views, and interviews from the Rightmove tech team.
Hackathon from hack and marathon, is an intense time bound event where teams of developers, designers, and other tech enthusiasts come together to collaborate on software projects.
Every year, we have the Hackathon season at Rightmove. It’s a three day event across our three offices in London, Milton Keynes, and Newcastle. This time, our focus was on generative AI. We spoken to some of the people who took part.
The primary goal of the Hackathon is to brainstorm, create, and deliver a functional piece of software within a short time frame. It’s all about innovation, experimentation, and rapid prototyping.
Hackathon is a place that you can think out of the box and you can try different ways, maybe shorter ways, maybe smarter ways. Once the event is finished, have that mentality with you and you bring it back to your team
– Ahmad, Lead organiser for the Rightmove Hackathon 2023
We had 141 participants across [our] three different sites Newcastle, Milton Keynes, and London. We defined about 26 projects and 7 different awards: best for consumer, best for customer, best for Rightmovers, best Generative AI, and then best presentation, best blogpost, and best overall hack.
– Ahmad, Lead organiser for the Rightmove Hackathon 2023
We chat to three teams over each day to see how they’re getting on
Ready for the demo? Yes, we are. I’m actually sitting looking at a whiteboard, which has got the breakdown of the presentation on it. So it’s five minutes, which is quite an aggressive timescale for being able to explain it, how it worked, what we did.
– Nick, representing the Pretty Property Pictures team
The winner of Best for Generative AI award went to FloorPlAI (generating descriptions for our floorplans using AI). We spoke to Elliot about what makes a winner.
what really did it for FloorPlAI was that in terms of an application of AI, it really demonstrated some capabilities that really you can only do with that sort of technology. In particular, it demonstrated extracting data from the harder to reach places. So generally for us, the harder to reach places to extract data are unstructured data. In the property world, that’s going to be images or free text descriptions.
– Elliot, judge for the Generative AI category
The winner for Best Overall Hack went to Pretty Property Pictures, so we couldn’t help but catch up with Nick again.
we’ve had so much fun over the three days just taking images of properties we’ve found, our own properties, one of our friends just bought a house, we redecorated that too, and just going, hey, what could we do if?
– Nick, representing the Pretty Property Pictures team
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The Rightmove Tech Podcast brings you news, views, and interviews from the Rightmove tech team.
Hackathon from hack and marathon, is an intense time bound event where teams of developers, designers, and other tech enthusiasts come together to collaborate on software projects.
Every year, we have the Hackathon season at Rightmove. It’s a three day event across our three offices in London, Milton Keynes, and Newcastle. This time, our focus was on generative AI. We spoken to some of the people who took part.
The primary goal of the Hackathon is to brainstorm, create, and deliver a functional piece of software within a short time frame. It’s all about innovation, experimentation, and rapid prototyping.
Hackathon is a place that you can think out of the box and you can try different ways, maybe shorter ways, maybe smarter ways. Once the event is finished, have that mentality with you and you bring it back to your team
– Ahmad, Lead organiser for the Rightmove Hackathon 2023
We had 141 participants across [our] three different sites Newcastle, Milton Keynes, and London. We defined about 26 projects and 7 different awards: best for consumer, best for customer, best for Rightmovers, best Generative AI, and then best presentation, best blogpost, and best overall hack.
– Ahmad, Lead organiser for the Rightmove Hackathon 2023
We chat to three teams over each day to see how they’re getting on
Ready for the demo? Yes, we are. I’m actually sitting looking at a whiteboard, which has got the breakdown of the presentation on it. So it’s five minutes, which is quite an aggressive timescale for being able to explain it, how it worked, what we did.
– Nick, representing the Pretty Property Pictures team
The winner of Best for Generative AI award went to FloorPlAI (generating descriptions for our floorplans using AI). We spoke to Elliot about what makes a winner.
what really did it for FloorPlAI was that in terms of an application of AI, it really demonstrated some capabilities that really you can only do with that sort of technology. In particular, it demonstrated extracting data from the harder to reach places. So generally for us, the harder to reach places to extract data are unstructured data. In the property world, that’s going to be images or free text descriptions.
– Elliot, judge for the Generative AI category
The winner for Best Overall Hack went to Pretty Property Pictures, so we couldn’t help but catch up with Nick again.
we’ve had so much fun over the three days just taking images of properties we’ve found, our own properties, one of our friends just bought a house, we redecorated that too, and just going, hey, what could we do if?
– Nick, representing the Pretty Property Pictures team
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