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How to build a Hackathon πŸš€

Nevo David on April 27, 2023

TL;DR We have just released our new Hackathon NovuConnect 🀩 We have made sure it's super easy to participate, and today I will talk abou...
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Thomas Bnt β˜•

Won with my team on the HackSquad 2022.
Maybe I'll participate in this one too. But what does it consist of? What do we have to create?

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Nevo David

Anything you want!
As long as there is notifications there :)

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Thomas Bnt β˜•

Okay thanks for the response!

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Imamuzzaki Abu Salam

I received mug swag from GitHub, and it's safely arrived tho. I think the expedition in Indonesia is awesome! They care every package they deliver. When you winner received broken mug, I think it's the expedition should get the mad, not you as the sender.

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Nevo David • Edited

Usually the shipping company will replace the mug.
But we needed to take care of the work behind it

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Sumit Saurabh

Excellent article!

Super pumped for the hackathon next month.

Let’s go! πŸš€πŸš€πŸš€

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Nevo David

Me too πŸš€

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Rachel Fazio

This is so cool!

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Nevo David

Thank you Rachel :)

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Prosper Otemuyiwa

Stocked for next month's hackathon. Let's go!!!

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Nevo David

Yassss!!! :)

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Stefan Neidig

Thanks for sharing. I also started hosting hackathons back in 2020 and learned a lot from that. So I really can relate to what you wrote. I found that having all the key information (goal, topic, judging, prizes, ...) on one sheet greatly helps in preparing such an event as it is easier to communicate to your staff as well as to your target audience. We came up with a format called "hackathon topic canvas", which does exactly that. Much easier after that :)