Aadhar hackathon results out: Student verification app emerges winner

BENGALURU: AngelPrime, a seed-stage fund, along with incubator Khosla Labs picked Bengaluru's Anantha Padmanabha as the winner of the online Aadhaar hackathon for his solution that prevents student impersonation during exams.

Padmanabha's solution verified student identity. His app provided a central database for all exam results, enabling online registrations for exams.
Other products developed included fingerprint scanner, simplifying driving license procedures among others.

The two-day competition held earlier this month saw more than 5269 developers from across India and also from Indians living abroad who built products around the themes of payments, productivity, government benefits, financial services, FMCG, healthcare and online to offline.

The Aadhaar Hackathon was administered via the HackerEarth Sprint, a unique tool developed by HackerEarth for conducting large-scale online hackathons.

“The hackathon achieved all its objectives - spreading the awareness and knowledge of this revolutionary platform for this century, Aadhaar, and uncovering several exciting use cases.," said Sanjay Swamy, managing partner, AngelPrime.

Aadhaar APIs such as biometric authentication, biometric eKYC, demographic authentication, OTP Authentication and OTP eKYC were exposed to all developers.

Khosla Labs partnered with AngelPrime for the Hackathon by opening up the APIs of its product - Aadhaar Bridge to enable the participants to integrate these Aadhaar services on their apps.

“It was a great experience to see young talent using Aadhaar based platforms to solve many societal issues being faced in India," said Arvind Gupta, BJP convenor and national head, information and technology.