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This would be pretty interesting. Personally, Im super competitive, and I've found most others are too. About 4 hours from presentations at my first Startup We

This would be pretty interesting. Personally, Im super competitive, and I've found most others are too. About 4 hours from presentations at my first Startup Weekend, we drastically needed to downscale what we were trying to do. I asked my team "Do we want to build this product, or do we want to win?". All of them said "Win." And so we did. But that app that won Startup Weekend never saw the light of day, so what was the point?

jarofgreen 11y ago
:-) It all goes back to what the point of the hackathon is really. For hackathons that are about people actually starting a project and continuing it afterwards (and certainly the Startup Weekend organisers I've talked to locally say this) I think this is the massive blind spot of hackathons - in reality very few projects will continue afterwards. I've seen many things tried to help improve this, and I don't know what the answer is - but I haven't seen anything about the judging helping. (Edit: congrats on winning tho ... um, after what I've just said!)