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YC Fall Hackathon 2019

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Re: YC Fall Hackathon 2019

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Post by craigcannon »

break_the_bank wrote: post #43

Hey! Can this be made remote? It'd help us non Americans/American non Californians to apply. From the application page :- Important note: This is an application, not a signup form. We have an application instead of a first-come, first-served signup because it helps guarantee a diverse group of participants and that matters a lot to us. It seems counter intuitive to base this in Mountain View if you care about diversi…

Thanks for the input. We're going to keep it in CA this time but will start thinking about remote hackathons for future events!

Re: YC Fall Hackathon 2019

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Post by sdan »

komali2 wrote: post #45
sdan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You start from scratch. At least that's what I've been following for the numerous hackathons I've attended/won/lost. Of course no one's going to check if you worked on it last night or whatnot (I know friends who've taken previous hackathon submissions and submit it to hackathons like it's new and actually won) but for the hackathon spirit you shouldn't.

That's the officiallyunofficial rule at all the hackathons I've been to, but also at every hackathon I've been to, the biggest prize winners were teams that were coming in with something they'd obviously been planning and working on for at least a couple weeks ramping up to the hackathon. I imagine with a ycombinator interview on the line that sort of behavior will only be more prevalent.

I can imagine a startup which applied to YC W20 coming waiting for pre-seed XD.
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