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The Strategy Behind Winning Hackathons

Ladipo Samuel on May 17, 2026

Hackathons happen almost every month, and there is always a winner. But here’s something most people don’t realize: the winner is not always the “b...
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Ibrahim Pima

thanks alot

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Ladipo Samuel

You’re welcome bro!

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Ibrahim Pima

i started last yr solo built around web3 web2 ,vibe coding won 18x out of 100+ , this would have helped a along way but thanks for making it up here much respect

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EL Mustapha

18x,wow .
That's peak .

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Ladipo Samuel

wow that is amazing! great one man!

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shabantiger

Building EduCreds a blockchain powered infrastructure for issuing tamper-proof academic credentials but for sure i have noticed two things why product has been failing. My Team composition and The product Pitching..
Surely thank you very much

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Ladipo Samuel

this is amazing! Glad I could help

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Adrien Oke

Cool 😎,

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Iremide Adeyanju

Thanks for this, man. Team formation might be my problem.

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Ladipo Samuel

yeah you have to search very well

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Popoola Temilorun

Thanks this are from experience and straightforward

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Ladipo Samuel

yeahh!

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Pushkar Shinde

Very helpful

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Ladipo Samuel

glad it is!

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Idowu Emmanuel

Thank you very much, bro, very helpful