Company
Date Published
Author
Richard Huffaker
Word count
666
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Sentry Winter Hackweek 2017 winner is Strut, an office culture technology that brings entrance theme music to employees when they arrive at work. The project leverages Google Cloud functions to handle events from Lockitron, the app used to unlock the office door, and uses Google Pub/Sub to broadcast events to consumers. This allows for a wide range of functionality to be driven off this approach, making Strut an agnostic system that can be adapted to various use cases. The project is open source and functional, with janky code due to its rapid development during Hackweek. It enables employees to create their own theme song playlists using YouTube music, which are then played automatically when they enter the office.