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Seems like this post is less about real hackathon strategies for devops, and more about marketing for ChallengePost's (I guess DevPost now?) partners.
by logane 11y ago
Seems like this post is less about real hackathon strategies for devops, and more about marketing for ChallengePost's (I guess DevPost now?) partners.
- z1mm32m4n 11y agoIt may very well be. But does it matter? As a hackathon organizer/mentor, these are exactly the resources I'd recommend. Publicity by providing a service is not a new concept; I really enjoy this post about it in particular: http://blog.crew.co/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/ http://blog.crew.co/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/
- logane 11y agoI don't think that post is the same situation at all - there, Crew made side projects that became popular and then received traffic from them. Here, corporate sponsors skew which tools a ChallengePost employee recommends for hackers - some of which I personally believe are not at all good tools for the listed jobs (S3 for static website hosting??).
- nealrs 11y agoOP here. Some of the tools are related to clients / hackathon sponsors - but most aren't. And s3 is an excellent tool for static site hosting. You can add cloudfront in a snap, it's stupid cheap, and you can deploy from the command line ( https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website is awesome for this.) Also, I've actually used _all_ of these tools before, both for personal & hackathon projects. I know they work.