Grasshopper | Devpost

Background

Collaboration is the heart of humanity. From contributing to the rises and falls of great civilizations to helping five sleep deprived hackers communicate over 36 hours, it has become a required dependency in the [email protected]:hacker/life.

Plowing through the weekend, we found ourselves shortchanged by the current available tools for collaborating within a cluster of devices. Every service requires:

Authentication Users must sign up and register to use a service.
Contact People trying to share information must establish a prior point of contact(share e-mails, phone numbers, etc).
Unlinked Output Shared content is not deep-linked with mobile or web applications.

This is where Grasshopper jumps in. Built as a streamlined cross-platform contextual collaboration service, it uses our on-prem installation of Magnet on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Messaging to integrate deep-linked commands and execute real-time applications between all mobile and web platforms located in a cluster near each other. It completely gets rid of the overhead of authenticating users and sharing contacts - all sharing is done locally through gps-enabled devices.

Use Cases

Grasshopper lets you collaborate locally between friends/colleagues. We account for sharing application information at the deepest contextual level, launching instances with accurately prepopulated information where necessary. As this data is compatible with all third-party applications, the use cases can shoot through the sky. Here are some applications that we accounted for to demonstrate the power of our platform:

Share a video within a team through their mobile's native YouTube app in seconds.
Instantly play said video on a bigger screen by hopping the video over to Chrome on your computer.
Share locations on Google maps between nearby mobile devices and computers with a single swipe.
Remotely hop important links while surfing your smartphone over to your computer's web browser.
Rick Roll your team.