HackTX is a 24-hour annual hackathon hosted by Freetail Hackers, a Computer Science student organization at The University of Texas at Austin.

[5] The first place winners, Lynx Labs, developed music visualization software using a Microsoft Kinect sensor and won five Google Nexus 7 tablets.

The third place team developed an automated flashcard application to help students study for tests for the prize of three Apple TV's.

The award for most creative project went to a rapid image transformation application for Windows, dubbed ‘Instagram for right-clicking.’ Twilio gave out two Spheros to a team who built software to control its 200-pound robot using text messages.

[5] Other supporters included the Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise, UT Events Co-Sponsorship Committee, RideScout, VMWare, ReturnPath, Alsop Louie, Palantir, Microsoft, HomeAway, InfoChimps, Rackspace, Twilio Communications and Indeed.com.

Finalists presented in front of a room of their peers and judges, including Brett Hurt, Josh Baer, and Bob Metcalfe.

Sponsors included Capital One, DevRev, Dish, Google, Analog Devices, Quantiq Partners, Southwest Research Institute(SwRI) and others.