Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by priley » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

Re-Inventing the Hackathon
blog.angelhack.com

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by gkoberger » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

I've been to a number of hackathons, and AngelHack is by far the best run. The team does a great job, the locations+judges+sponsors are good, and they're usually cheap/free developers and designers. Can't wait to see what AppHACK is like.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by binarymax » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

Mandatory demos. Banning of slide decks.

Thank you!

I had the pleasure of attending AngelHack london in April, and it was amazing. Keep up the great work!

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by nitinalabur » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

No slides! finally!!!!!

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by maffydub » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

binarymax wrote: post #3

Mandatory demos. Banning of slide decks. Thank you! I had the pleasure of attending AngelHack london in April, and it was amazing. Keep up the great work!

Agreed. I'm definitely in favor of more demo (and hopefully less business plan).

I was at AngelHack London in April and ended up just doing a demo (of https://github.com/matt-williams/argolf) because I couldn't get my laptop connected to the projector.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by gailees » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Not going to lie, I've been to almost two dozen hackathons, and this right here is where they are headed. Greg Gopman and co. are doing it right.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by Intimatik » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:51 PM UTC

I'm waiting AppHack in Moscow! AngelHack hackathon was really awesome!

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by alexs_mx » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

I think 24 Hrs hack beats 48 hrs of which 20 are just recovering from bad sleep and 1 making keynote keynote of a no_demo "bussiness"

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by jlees » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

Love the focus on demos and code reviews; many 'hackathons' are becoming anything but. Wish the through-the-night part would change, though, I feel that aspect makes these events less accessible.

The bootcamp aspect is an interesting one. Would you accept apps that were built in HTML/JS and PhoneGapped? I've seen that approach used more and more at hackathons, due to speed. Android/iOS is definitely doable (I've built both at hackathons/startup weekends), but for someone completely new to the platform, it'll be slower. So allowing skeleton apps, templates and frameworks could even the playing field a little.

Re: Re-Inventing the Hackathon

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Post by iancarroll » Mon, Sep 16, 2013, 6:21 PM UTC

Their free ticket thing was really easy. I mean, come on.