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When it comes down to a 4 minute demo the engineering is irrelevant. Instead spend the time to pick the right words and tell a story with pretty pictures.
by austincheney 5y ago
When it comes down to a 4 minute demo the engineering is irrelevant. Instead spend the time to pick the right words and tell a story with pretty pictures.
- seba_dos1 5y agoThat's simultaneously true and entirely missing the point.
- austincheney 5y agoMissing the point how? It sounds like you are looking for some form of agreement that is not implied.
- seba_dos1 5y agoMissing the point of what was making people want to participate in old-school hackathons and what made these events fun in the first place. It is true that these days most hackathons are reduced to a pitching contest you describe, and that's exactly what's wrong with them (along some other things). Not that there isn't a place for pitching contests or people who still find them fun, but GP was talking about how the term "hackathon" was taken over and doesn't mean what it used to anymore.
- austincheney 5y agoYou are suggesting an opinion I never implied. You injected a straw man to make some point to battle against. BTW, I agree that marketing driven 4 minute hackathon demos are stupid.
- seba_dos1 5y ago> BTW, I agree that marketing driven 4 minute hackathon demos are stupid. That's what I said. I'm not so sure on who's injecting a straw man here :)
- austincheney 5y agoSo, what point did I miss?
- seba_dos1 5y ago4 minute pitch decks are missing the point of hackathons.