Hackathon Quality
Sequoia India used to host a hackathon. That used to be some epic stuff. Lots of really good devs used to come and make some kickass products. Post that I have been to numerous hackathon and it rarely makes a dent in quality of outputs. What do you guys think we can do to make hackathons great again? Most of the events these days are closed events for within a company.
I'll start with some suggestions:
- Have a decent prize money
- Output should be judged on factors like completeness, business readiness, quality, usecase definition etc
- Have good sponsors backing the cause so that we get awareness about the event.
- Also support good innovation as well. Not like yet another Chat GPT coding assistant
Please add on to this. How can we have a great one again. Looking for ideas and if we end up with a decent suggestion then we can try to setup a hackathon of our own completely.
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Multiple problems with hackathons, most importantly that sponsors don't really get their money's worth out of it. CAC is very high for hackathons and retention still as questionable.