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Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

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Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

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Post by cooper12 »

softdev12 wrote: post #5

Wow. 100,000 projects submitted? With that many projects, you'd think the odds would make it that one wasn't terrible.

I think that was a joke. Judging from the rearview mirror video, the venue was pretty small. The event was also hosted by a graduate program at NYU, which in it's inception only had 20 members. While I'm sure NYC has a spare 100,000 people, I doubt such a high turnout for such a specific non-internet event.

Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

#43

Post by allisonburtch »

anigbrowl wrote: post #38
unclesaamm wrote: post #28

This is incredible. I think a few things are worth noting: 1) these "terrible idea" hackathon projects were so much more _sexual_ than your typical hackathon. This goes with the indications that the sex-tech space is anathema more for market reasons (VCs want to stay family friendly) than because sex-tech isn't fun or interesting to people. With the chance of funding not on the table, a healthy mix of projects veered…

I found that interesting to, and straightaway noticed the high # of women participants - in fact that made me guess it was based in NYC before reading up on the background to the event and finding that it is indeed based there (which I hadn't heard of before). I thought it was sexual in an assured self-aware way rather than giggly or tacky. I was especially struck by the egg-timer clock.

It was held at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (started by Red Burns), whose student body is 50/50 m/f, half international students and grades are pass/fail. There's a really fun, collaborative, non-competitive culture in the program.

Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

#45

Post by prawn »

mistercow wrote: post #39

The rearview mirror one is actually a really cool experiment. I wonder if eventually you'd just get used to it (although you probably wouldn't get used to all of the neck and joint pain from trying to do things so awkwardly).

I agree.

Here's a clever promo showing people trying to live with a Rift showing them a lagged version of reality. I laugh so hard when he tries to make a pancake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNp37zFn9Q

Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

#46

Post by wingerlang »

cooper12 wrote: post #42
softdev12 wrote: post #5

Wow. 100,000 projects submitted? With that many projects, you'd think the odds would make it that one wasn't terrible.

I think that was a joke. Judging from the rearview mirror video, the venue was pretty small. The event was also hosted by a graduate program at NYU, which in it's inception only had 20 members. While I'm sure NYC has a spare 100,000 people, I doubt such a high turnout for such a specific non-internet event.

It was definitely a joke.

Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

#47

Post by Houshalter »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #41

This is incredibly funny. Just today I was reading i am devloper tweets and just started wondering are there communities for developer jokes? Reddit comes to mind, but it become too mainstream. Anything else?

Well it is reddit but https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/
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