Hackathons

Have you ever been to a “hackathon” event where you work on a project with someone in 24-48 hours?

I went to one and we made a kind of mediocre game but at least we actually finished it. We intentionally decided to limit the scope of the project so we could finish it and debug it in such a short time frame. Meanwhile, the people who actually won the awards were people who had cooler and more ambitious ideas... but they weren’t functional!

That seemed really weird to me. Is this why there are so many bad tech startups these days?

I thought my team was smart for figuring out what we did and did not have time to work on. But I guess that’s not as important as buzzwords and things like that.

May I ask what did they try to make and if their project even compiled?

>>2

Something about blockchain. For some reason, even usually-sane people lose their minds when they hear “blockchain” even though it just means a slow distributed database. But they equate it with printing money.

I forget what it was, but it wasn’t even a crypto currency. They were doing something unrelated to currency and just threw in blockchain for no goodbye reason. I don’t think it even worked. They just explained how it was supposed to work.

>>3
Wow, that sucks. I knew someone who organised hackathlons back when I was in uni and believe me, he was one of the most lazy and ignorant people there. He was the only person whom I would describe as an ``apper''.

hackatons always give off a trendy macfag hipster vibe. I'd say you should learn2hacking and participate in a CTF instead but those are going the same road, with bonus commercialization and 100-man chinese teams

I have been to a ``hackathon'', 99% of people wanted to do toy projects in rust/go they were learning, so we ended up with 17 different fizzbuzz http servers.

>>6
You mean node.js