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Discussion on: Everything you need to know about Hackathons

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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 😃

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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.