I read somewhere (can't find it now) that hackathons work better when there are specific problems to solve rather than just having a general theme. Makes sense, but I'm curious whether anyone has any experience regarding this. I've only ever attended one, a couple of years ago.
Re:Three Days on the Startup Bus
by coolsunglasses on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:17AM
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Haskell community has hackathons around the world that end up being 60% conference, 40% hackathon with people jumping between each depending on interests. A lot of infrastructure has been built or improved, tutorials, tooling, etc. at these hackathons.
BayHac and ZuriHac are two of the more prominent ones.
Here are some pearls from it:
> Nothing useful is ever created at a hackathon.
> sometimes “entrepreneur” means “runs a successful company” and sometimes it means “more ideas than money.”
> Eddie [...] dresses exclusively in free t-shirts from tech events. [...] his job is to go around the country attending hackathons, throwing pizza parties, and handing out t-shirts to developers to convince them to use SendGrid.
Reads exactly like the hackathons I've attended.