I think it's a great point to reward developers who submit bugs and give feedback. Though I do think hackathons can serve different purposes. The most importan

I think it's a great point to reward developers who submit bugs and give feedback. Though I do think hackathons can serve different purposes. The most important thing is to be clear on the objective and don't try to win on every front. e.g. If it's to publicise your API among developers, great, focus publicity, talks, challenges around that. If it's to get feedback, same thing. And this mirrors how developers should approach hackathons, which is again to have one clear objective. It could be to build something amazing, it could be to learn an API, but you'll rarely achieve both.