Evernote announces Devcup 2013: Global developer competition kicks off at SXSW Interactive

SINGAPORE / AUSTIN, 14 MARCH 2013 – Every year, some of the most
creative technology minds in the world gather in Austin for the South by Southwest Interactive festival. Being one of the the key technology
events, it was chosen as the most appropriate place to kick off this year’s
Evernote developer competition, Devcup. The Evernote Devcup challenges developers and designers from
around the world to build products that extend the functionality of Evernote,
helping users to capture, share, and recall all of the most important things in
their lives.

The
Goal

Evernote
means something different to each of its 50 million users around the world,
making the opportunities for integration with the Evernote platform almost unlimited.
If your app can help a user capture, share, recall or visualize
important information, there is a fit with Evernote. Therefore Evernote is looking
for well-designed apps that allow users to do more with Evernote, whether at
home or at work, on their smartphone, tablet, laptop or any other device, in
the US or Brazil or China or anywhere else in the world.

Meet
the Team

To help
developers envision and implement great ideas, the Evernote team will be
holding hackathons and meetups around the world. The Evernote team has already
planned events for Beijing, Berlin, Mexico City, New York, Seoul, San
Francisco, Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Zurich, and will be adding more cities over the
next few months. Attending one of these events is a great way to jump-start
your project, refine your idea, find teammates, and get help with our
APIs. Here is a list of upcoming
events.

Our
Partners

This
year, Evernote added two great partners to help encourage even more innovative
products and to reach more developers: Honda
Silicon Valley Lab and Amazon
Web Services (AWS) Startups.

Together,
Honda and AWS Startups will give Devcup participants access to cutting edge
technologies that will help them build the next generation of great Evernote
apps.

The
Prizes

Devcup
2013 includes three rounds of prizes.

Category
winners: The
first round recognizes the best submission in each of a dozen categories,
including Productivity, Sports & Fitness, Family & Parenting, Cooking,
Photography, and Design. Each round 1 winner will be recognized by Evernote and
receive tickets to the Evernote Conference to be held in San Francisco this
fall.

Finalists: The six best overall apps from
the first round will be selected as finalists and will win an all-expenses paid
trip to the Evernote Conference. At the conference, the finalists will pitch
their submissions to our audience, who will vote for the overall gold, silver
and bronze winners.

Devcup Gold, Silver and Bronze: The winners of the audience
voting at the Evernote Conference will take home $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000
prizes, respectively.

Last
year, over 2,000 developers and designers participated in Devcup, building hundreds of great apps. This year Devcup will be going even
bigger,  visiting new countries to
generate interest in the competition, and offering more prizes.

Getting
Involved

Those
individuals who think that they have the programming or design skills to
compete but aren’t sure what to build, there is a lot of inspiration available
online: All of last year’s submissions can be found at the devcup 2012 website, and a highlight of
some of the favourite apps from last year on Evernote’s blog.

More details
can be found at devcup.evernote.com.