For those of you who don't know what a hack day is: We spend the whole day working on whatever idea we want as long as it contributes to VHX in some capacity. For example, wouldn't it be great to easily export a GIF from your favorite movie scene on VHX? Not exactly revolutionary, but its fun!

Our team is founded by a bunch of hackers and designers with a passion for video. Hack days to allow us to continue to think beyond the scope of traditional video publishing and consumption.

Our most recent hack day yielded some really exciting results. In just under 8 hours:

• Sagar and Gina integrated Chromecast into our video player. This feature is in beta and we will release it publicly soon!
• Chad redesigned our main blog and our developer blog. We have a lot of opinions on the future of video, and now we will have a pretty, candy-wrapped face.
  
• Chris and Steven made some nice upgardes to our internal chat program, Hipchat. Now whenever someone does something good (or bad) we can give them Karma points. Yay.
• Jamie integrated VHX into Popcorn Time. Whoa.
• James and Charlie integrated VHX into Plex.
• Michael and Kevin optimized the speed and scalability of our embeds. Death Star is fully operational.
• Kathleen figured out how to empty an entire wine bottle. Turns out you can just drink it.

Just after one day it allowed us to more concretely define our API and make it even more robust. I'm really looking forward to our next hack day, and hope to host one to the public in the near future.

-Casey