In December, we had a hack day at Poke. In a nutshell, we had 24 hours to come up with an idea and make it an online reality. It was brilliant, exhausting, stressful, fun and inspiring. Here’s how it worked:

On the eve of hack day, the theme was revealed – food. Then, at 2pm on the 9th December we were divided into teams, evenly spreading Poke’s strategic, creative, design, project management and coding skills as evenly as possible.

We then had one hour to come up with an idea, which we subsequently presented to the rest of the company. Twenty-three hours later, our creations would have to be live and kicking online.

Our team’s idea was to create an egg-timer that served up a Youtube video to match the exact length your egg needed to be boiled for. Have a look for yourself over at eggwatchers.com.

We didn’t have time to make it a mobile app, before you say it ;) oh – and it’s not working on all versions of IE. But Firefox is fine.

Whichever idea receives the most traffic by March wins an amazing dinner out. So if you like eggwatchers.com, please tweet it, shout it, sing it, blog it. We’ve already featured on the BBC Good Food site. But there’s work to do. Help us spread our eggy love.