I concur. I Landed my last job by meeting someone at a hackathon. I found my current mid/long-term project doing another hackathon with the same person where

I concur. I Landed my last job by meeting someone at a hackathon. I found my current mid/long-term project doing another hackathon with the same person where we had the opportunity to develop a prototype and see that it worked. I like hackathons because it's the only way for me to have two full days to actually _make_ something.