>tl;dr determination, creativity, and a good product demo. Sure, but aren't those things that are normally expected of applicants? "Hack" implies a clever tric

>tl;dr determination, creativity, and a good product demo. Sure, but aren't those things that are normally expected of applicants? "Hack" implies a clever trick that routes you around the normal mechanisms. And, quite seriously, the only hack I found was beer.