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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 th
by dexwiz 5y ago
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.
- wayoutthere 5y agoI won a hackathon once with PowerPoint mock-ups (read: a slide deck). The term “hackathon” means nothing anymore. They’re just pitch competitions anymore.
- heyparkerj 5y agoMy 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.
- skinnymuch 5y agoHow could that win? Others are saying slides were presented. Demoing a SaaS chat bot is nothing!
- dexwiz 5y agoHackathons 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.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoI 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.