One of the first presentations of the day featured an app called Titstare which is exactly what it sounds like: an app that features photos of people "staring at tits".
"Brogrammers" Jethro Batts and David Boulton said during their presentation that "looking at breasts was directly linked with having a good healthy heart, but woman just aren't that warm to it".
Another Adelaide developer, Kangmo Kim demonstrated an app called "Circle Shake" which is an app which compels people to compete to see how fast they can shake their phone up and down. During the presentation the developer pretended to pleasure himself in front of the audience.
Tech Crunch immediately apologised both on its website and Twitter, saying that the issues "resulted from a failure to properly screen our hackathons for inappropriate content ahead of time and establish clear guidelines for these submissions".
"Trust us, that changed as soon as we saw what happened at our show," wrote Tech Crunch co-editors Alexia Tsotsis and Eric Eldon.
"Every presentation is getting a thorough screening from this hackathon onward. Any type of sexism or other discriminatory and/or derogatory speech will not be allowed.
"You expect more from us, and we expect more from ourselves. We are sorry."
The duo apologised via Twitter using the username @hateyoucards which they also used a few weeks ago to announce their Titstare.com submission to the event.
"#Titstare guys here," they tweeted. "Sorry if we offended some of you, very unintentional. Just a fun Aussie hack."
More on the story here.
Here's a video about Titstare:
But for what purpose exactly? What would drive one to do this? I also do believe the apology was necessary.
Thanks to Claire Porter for this story.
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