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Everything you need to know about Hackathons

Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam on August 28, 2021

As a college student, I bounce on every opportunity I can to have fun or further my career. A hackathon combines both. Iā€™m a Computer Science major...
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Steve McDougall

Great list of things to know!

We are running a hackathon between 9th October 2023 and 20th October 2023 at Treblle, with a week of educational content released throughout the first week and the event running the second week.

Cash prizes and swag prizes - should be fun!

Feel free to join us! hacked.treblle.com/

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umtcylmz

Hi Muthu, thanks a lot for these valuable information. I think every reader can use these info for the Real-Time Streaming Hackathon on 29th of July!

Challenge is simple: build a streaming application or plugin on top of Ant Media Server

šŸ„‡ 1st prize: $3000
šŸ„ˆ 2nd prize: $2000
šŸ„‰ 3rd prize: $1000

There will be pre-event tomorrow at 01:00 PM CET at meet.google.com/dxs-vzfk-gkk

Register Today: antmedia.io/hackathon/?ad=devto

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

Don't team up with business ppl or hackathons who just want to use you as a resource to build their idea or gather ideas for free. They should offer prize money and allow you to keep your own IP. If not don't bother going for it. It's a waste of your own time which you can contribute to a open source like dev.to

Focus on the product market fit for what you build instead of coding skills. Do whatever it takes to build a mvp without spending too much time in coding. Instead focus validating your idea and have a product market fit.

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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

True Thank you for adding these valuable points šŸ˜ƒ

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Yeah I gone to afew and won a afew as well. So it's really a good place to be in tune with the startup world.

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Drew Harris

Nice article. I love hackathons and am not a hard-core coder. I am more of a designer and I always learn so much from dev-friends at these events. Always fun building something quick and learning from it.

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Audrey Kadjar

Great intro guide about Hackathons!

I've recently participated in my third Hackathon and wrote a recap of my tips here: dev.to/audreyk/5-tips-for-survivin...

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Milan Mitrovic

This is really motivating story. I have never attended any hackathon. I was major in economics and started learning programming after I graduated at university. If I had been major in CS, I would have attended many hackathons, I believe... It seems like there is a lot of fun there and students can learn new things and meet interesting people.

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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Absolutely true Hackathons teach us a lot of skills.

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Eng Soon Cheah

Only build the Hero function not full app.
Do not use same app idea for all hackathon.
Arrange the time for sleeping and rest.