natHACKS 2024
natPass
One scan to check in a hacker.
01The problem
Check-in ran on spreadsheets. Four things to check for every hacker, by volunteers who were new every year.
Before
Accepted
Paid
Waiver signed
Needs on the day
Four sheets, one at a time.
After
- Accepted
- Paid
- Waiver signed
- Needs on the day
One scan.
02What we considered
Keep the data where it was
natPass reads straight from Baserow.
No typing
Hackers got a QR code by email. Volunteers just scan it.
Read-only by default
You switch into check-in on purpose.
Don't chase people
Missing waiver? natPass emails it.
“okay sick I think thats everything for the mvp.. now to get 10 hours of sleep in the next 3 hours”
The commit that shipped it
- First commit
- MVP done
- Asleep
- At the hackathon
Volunteers stopped checking four things.
They scanned a code.
03Looking back
Start earlier. Stress test it with a fake line of hackers, instead of deploying it the morning of.