Can one of your kind souls explain a hackathon for someone who is self taught and feels impostor syndrome?
How to Run Hackathons in 2024
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#22Can one of your kind souls explain a hackathon for someone who is self taught and feels impostor syndrome?
Developers meet at one place and code something from scratch for about 48 hours straight, often working in teams, and then present their creations live to an audience and get scored on various criteria. Was that helpful?
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#23Can one of your kind souls explain a hackathon for someone who is self taught and feels impostor syndrome?
Not sure the imposter syndrome is really relevant here. Hackathon is effectively throw a bunch of hackers in a room for a weekend or something and see what you can hack together
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#24I really wish there were more non-collegiate hackathons available out there.
Check out the site Devpost for public, online hackathons (https://devpost.com/hackathons?challenge_type[]=online&open_...)
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#25The title of the blog post should be "How to run a Hackathon if your only objective is to trend on GitHub". I've been to many hackathons and also organized a few, and this is one of the most soulless incarnations of a hackathon I've seen. In my opinion on of the coolest things about a hackathon is the ability to live out your creativity and be free from perfectionsim to have a change of pace from your traditional day…
In my experience this is the problem with a great many hackathons. I stopped attending many years ago when I realised the people who made the best presentations were the people who won, not the people with the best hack.
(not saying they’re all like this of course. But a lot were)
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#27The title of the blog post should be "How to run a Hackathon if your only objective is to trend on GitHub". I've been to many hackathons and also organized a few, and this is one of the most soulless incarnations of a hackathon I've seen. In my opinion on of the coolest things about a hackathon is the ability to live out your creativity and be free from perfectionsim to have a change of pace from your traditional day…
Agreed. Pretty much defeats the spirit of a Hackathon and corrupts it into real-life clickbait.
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#28I ran a hack week a few months ago about postgres internals and it was super fun! There weren't prizes, it was just about getting ~100 devs into a discord for a week and seeing what happened. Most people who stayed involved posted an update once a day or so and as people wrote blog posts or published a project I added it to the hack week page. I'm looking forward to doing more in the future on topics like compression…
I’d love to be doing more hacking like this. How do you go about advertising it? In the sense of, what should I be reading to find out about it?
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#29I ran a hack week a few months ago about postgres internals and it was super fun! There weren't prizes, it was just about getting ~100 devs into a discord for a week and seeing what happened. Most people who stayed involved posted an update once a day or so and as people wrote blog posts or published a project I added it to the hack week page. I'm looking forward to doing more in the future on topics like compression…
I’d love to be doing more hacking like this. How do you go about advertising it? In the sense of, what should I be reading to find out about it?
I posted about it on LinkedIn, Twitter, and a Discord I run.
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#30If you run an in person Hackathon (or really, any event in 2024) then please read https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... first.