Doesn't necessarily mean you're slow, it could mean you have a high threshold for worthwhile. Seriously, I've seen what some people cobbled together in a week

Doesn't necessarily mean you're slow, it could mean you have a high threshold for worthwhile. Seriously, I've seen what some people cobbled together in a week long hackfest and been completely unimpressed, having built something similar, and more robust in a day and a half- I did not consider my efforts (or theirs) worthwhile. To be clear, all efforts that you learn from are worthwhile, but I am meaning (and I think what you mean) worthwhile from the standpoint of, getting something production ready or having completed an idea or concept to the point that we can figure out what the heck to do with it. I think the best things to come out of any hackathon setting are the ideas. The execution that actually occurs should be more of a fleshing out the feasibility and sparking iterative ideas. Anyone walking out of a hackathon thinking they've got actual usable code is just wrong.