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.

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.