# No Stack Startups (the Technical Side)

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2015-05-12

startups, technology, apis, ziggeo, firebase, clarifai, presentation

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This past Saturday was [Video Hackday](http://videohackday.com/) in New York City. It had been organized by the team at [Ziggeo](http://ziggeo.com) with the help from many others, including a great roster of sponsors. I enjoyed participating and wrote [a little hack that you can see here](https://quaesitio.firebaseapp.com/). Even though I am pretty rusty as a developer, I managed to write something that let’s anyone ask a written question (which then lives at its own URL – all handled via [Firebase](http://firebase.com)) and others can answer by recording a video response (recording and playback from [Ziggeo](http://ziggeo.com)) which is then analyzed via [Clarifai](http://clarifai.com) to determine if it is a person answering. If you had told me in say 2000 that all of this could be built by a single engineer in less than 8 hours I would have told you that’s completely impossible.

So why is it possible now? Well that was the topic of the talk I gave at the kickoff for the hackday. Here are the slides that speak mostly for themselves and were inspired by my partner [Andy’s](https://twitter.com/aweissman) post from earlier that week about the [No Stack Startups](http://blog.aweissman.com/2015/05/no-stack-startups.html).

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/no-stack-startups-the-technical-side)*