🕵♀️Web3 and COVID killed Hackathon Culture
Remember when I was in college, we had a really great hackathon culture, being conducted offline in Bangalore. AngelHack, Amazon Sambhav, FutureSkills by Nasscom, Ideathon.
After COVID hit and Web3 became a buzzword, all I see is web3 hackathons where folks just copy a pre-written smart contract from GitHub and it doesn't even work. Most of these are online where you don't even get to see what others have built. I have seen someone winning 3rd prize by showing Figma prototype 🤦♀️. Same goes for meetups as well.
Really miss the days where we had no clue on Friday what we're going to build and coming home with $500 in prize on Monday mornings.
If you're aware of any good hackathons happening this year, please let me know.
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
I've made 32lakhs post TDS just from hackathons in COVID.
Pre COVID ihad only made 8lakhs lifetime from hackathons (gojek, kalaari, etc)
Namely - Amazon Sambhav, Rapyd, Ondc, Bank of baroda, Microsoft and few other web3 startups who don't exists anymore 😂
Platforms - Devpost, dare2compete, skillenza, devfolio.
COVID has been a blessing for me.
It's easier to fake web3 and ai products in online rather than in person hackathons.
I've literally won 3 hackathons just by showing chatbots, my friend was on the other side pretending to be a bot, replying smartly to my messages 😂
Good riddance