On Saturday, November 5th, three friends arrived at Music Hack Day Boston—in which developers and designers meet to build proof-of-concept sites and apps in a short amount of time—with hangovers. Needing a hair-of-the-dog remedy, they decided their hack should be a drink-recommendation site, and thus Drinkify was born. Type in a musician or band’s name, and Drinkify will give you the perfect drink for your listening experience; the site works by using artist keywords and tempo to determine the “stirring speed” of the cocktail. “It’s been really cool to watch musicians enjoy playing with it—either because their drink is spot on or absolutely terrible,” writes Matthew Ogle, who created the site along with Hannah Donovan and Lindsay Eyink. Read more at newyorker.com…
Raise a Glass
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts