The Zappos API team held the 9^th Hack-a-thon event from December 12-16^th. The theme was “Do it Live”, which meant each team was encouraged to try and have their project accessible to the intended users by the end of the week.

In the end, seven teams accomplished this challenge. In addition to the Hack-a-Thon, the Zappos API team hosted a public “Hack-a-thon Hack-a-long” contest open to any non Zappos developer that ran for the duration of the Hackathon.

While these projects are mostly in concept-form only, it should give you some visibility into potential future advances that we could build for our customers and employees. We are going to ask you to vote for your favorite project, which we will then get ready to go live. So, go ahead and place your vote!