BankOS: Open Banking Platform - 1st Place!

DNB Digital Challenge is one of the most sought for hackathons in Norway, where different teams from Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim (also Singapore) compete to develop the best applications and solutions that push society forward.

For this year's hackathon, the goal was to use DNB solutions to solve UN climate goals (specifically nr. 8 and nr. 12). My team and I registered mostly because of having fun and eating food; thus, our name came to be "Free Food". However, we became more serious and more serious around developing the idea throughout the hackathon. The idea came to us with intensive amount of discussion and grumbling, and it revolved around the news of PSD2 (all banks have to open their banking data) allowing 3rd parties to create and build solutions using banking data. Thus, we developed an open-source platform that has integration to various Bank APIs (e.g., DnB, Nordea, etc...), our core platform (BankOS), and 3rd party modules that provide extended data enrichment to the API calls (e.g., svanemerket which can give us a score on how "healthy" the food is).

Our team proceeded to the finals from the Oslo bracket, and we were reinvited to the stage to compete over Bergen, Trondheim, and Singapore. With the looks of Steve Jobs and a presentation that kinda was inspired by Apple (ref: PowerPoint), we managed to win the 1st place with a prize of 100'000NOK and a full-time job.

As for the project, I coded the frontend of the web/module system which displayed a marketplace of modules and activated APIs, using NodeJS and HandlebarsJS.

• Year: April, 2019
• Category: Hackathon