Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by dexwiz on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:40PM
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Sad but true. Hackdays should be called Sketchdays. Judging is often very short, and can be easily constrained to happy path. My experience as a developer is that UI work is worth way more than backend for winning a hackday. Work is so UI skewed, that it's probably better to do an Invision mockup.
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Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by heyparkerj on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:52PM
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My organization's most recent hack day was won by the UX team signing up for a free demo of a chat bot service and demoing it - not a single line of code. We haven't had one since, nor do we use chat bots anywhere in our org a few years later.
Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by skinnymuch on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:24PM
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How could that win? Others are saying slides were presented. Demoing a SaaS chat bot is nothing!
Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by mohanmcgeek on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:21PM
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I can tell you this exact thing happened at my company's hackathon and it finished pretty close to a win.
It was the Alexa prompt driven chatbot. Not a single line of code was written.
Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by dexwiz on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:55PM
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Hackathons are not about tech, they are about business value now. They are a chance for individual contributors or low level managers to present business ideas to their bosses. Bosses don’t really care about tech.
Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
by wayoutthere on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:51PM
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I won a hackathon once with PowerPoint mock-ups (read: a slide deck). The term “hackathon” means nothing anymore. They’re just pitch competitions anymore.