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Yea... we had some problems with ATX last time. We're switching things up with a completely new organizing team and venue this time around. It's not easy to throw these big hacks, …

Yea... we should definitely be considering teaching people how to utilize frameworks for languages they already know (PhoneGap, Blackberry OS, Appcelerator). We started with Androi…

Hey Potato, that's sad you don't want to go to hacks anymore. Code reviews are either done in private before we announce the winner or within 7 days after the event. The slide deck…

Hi, I'm the founder of AngelHack, we organize large hackathons around the world and I can tell you this article doesn't hold true for us (though I can't speak for other events). We…

Salsa, the offer was to receive a free ticket with your upvote. There was no incentive to vote more than once.

Hi Thrown, This is Greg from AngelHack. Everything you said is valid and I thank you for your feedback. We'll organize over 100 hackathons this year and while we work with venues f…

Hi SCC! You are correct, I can't code (yet!). But all my best friends are coders and I think on the same wave-length. Starting this year we'll be building out a network of code sch…

Hi r25, Greg from AngelHack here. The equity stake we take is 2%. This allows us to be sustainable and continue building this program. This accelerator (should be called a pre-acce…

Hi Maffy, glad you had a great time. We're working on the 2 minute limit rule and some creative ways to speed up demos. We hate ushering people off-stage when they've worked so har…

Hi aashay, you are completely correct, we are designed to be a feeder system into other accelerators! We're not trying to re-invent the wheel here, only help great teams prepare fo…

Hi George, Greg from AngelHack here. Thanks for the pro-tip. HN is still a black box to us and I appreciate your tips on successful protocols for using it. We didn't incentive peop…

Hi Error, This is Greg from AngelHack. We have nothing to do with said "shell" accounts, nor did we give anyone incentive to make shell accounts. We offered our community free tick…

Hi this is Greg from AngelHack. I'm not sure if someone posted that or if that's just your personal comment. If you're interested, we act more as a pre-accelerator, designed to get…

The Sparrow team hard at work

Hackathon.io will be coming out with a directory of every hackathon in the U.S. in about 12 days. Signup at hackathon.io and we'll e-mail you more info soon.

Here's a full breakdown on hack sponsorships...maybe it'll make it in your next post ;) HACK SPONSORSHIPS Non-college hackathons are sponsored mostly from Platform Marketing depart…

Pen Apps not getting money from UPenn!!! Pulak, I thought your hustle was stronger than that ;)

SHDH is great, but I wouldn't compare it in the same light as the hackathons we're discussing. It's not a weekend long event and you cut corners on getting healthy food, because yo…

Most hackathons, like the Greylock one mentioned, are organized with large budgets in hopes of bringing in talent to find recruits for their companies. Independently organized hack…

Great post by Alexey, but I must admit I'm disappointed he didn't incorporate any of the insights we use at AngelHack to sustain hackathons of 400+ attendees( walkie talkies, rated…

Very Cool.