Hackathons are a great way to learn random stuff, meet new people, and build cool projects. I met some of my best friends at hackathons and finance...
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From my experience (both of participating an and hosting hackathons) it is all about the idea. You can execute all you want. If you miss the point or it is not engaging enough (especially for community awards) you wonÄt win anything. Judges take only little time to evaluate your solution. They will skip you if they don't understand the use case or intention of your submission. There is also little to now opportunity to ask some questions about it. So carrying out a clear and concise idea that one can understand and evaluate is key here. Also judges are often less technical. They don't know what complexity goes into your submission and often won't judge it even if they can grasp it. So bottomline: idea first, execution second.
Source: Participated in 20 + and hosted 6+ Hackathons.
Absolutely! I also had to learn that the hard way. As a computer scientist/programmer I was always focused on building something technically impressive (given the time constraint) but I learned pretty fast that you don't win with cool tech, but with an awesome pitch. The hackathons I won were usually a combination of both, an awesome pitch that the judges liked and a good technical prototype that differentiated me from those who only had a pitch but no prototype.
Idea first, execution second is so ingrained in my head that I didn't even consider it for this blog post!
Awesome. Do you have any techniques on how you come up with ideas and more importantly validate and develop them? Would be cool and worth to share as well.
Do you mean for hackathons or in general?:)
Both. Always eager to hear how other ideate :)
Wow! What a blog post. So much utility laid out and concisely explained. Thank you.
Will certainly be forking your starter template but will be swapping Next for Svelte.
Nice! I've seen Svelte used a lot in hackathons as well, good luck in your next one :)
Awesome post! TIL about docker watch. Can you give some details about the "workspace:*" database dependency?
docker watch is awesome right?! I really didn't enjoy docker dev setups before. The workspace dependency is turborepo magic, the docs probably explain it best: turbo.build/repo/docs/handbook/wor...
Awesome post 🔥
thanks, and good luck at your next hackathon!
This is awesome, thanks for sharing Jonas!
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Nice post
Bookmarked!
Nice and neat 👍 such templates are also useful for fast project prototyping, the stack is quite good to scale further if necessary