Hakatony- good! Yes, son, not bad!
Hello! I would like to share the experience of trips to hackathons, which are held in Moscow and tell what kind of an animal this is - Hakaton.
Hackathon is a 1-2-3 day event where people come up with an idea and implement it in a short time. The best projects receive prizes, usually cash or some kind of device.
Details, as usual, under the cut.
Pros from trips to these events:
No need to pay for food
Yes, they usually feed on Hackathons, plus, so that people can work at night, the sea of power engineers is distributed.
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No need to pay for office
At your disposal is an office that works around the clock, whenever you want, then you work. But for 1-3 days.
It helps to build a team and test its performance in combat conditions.
You can cheat yourself in a team of people who are willing to work for the idea, that is, in vain.
A very useful thing if you are a completely startup and you have a budget of 10k rubles.
To assemble a team of 12 people right on the hackathon - no problem!
New acquaintances in the IT field
Stars, most likely will not, but to meet with representatives of Samsung or Google and start a relationship with them is quite possible.
Loot
Notebooks, pens, t-shirts, and sometimes boxes of food and energy. A very useful thing for survival.
Party and fun
I’ll say right away that if you go to the hackathon alone, you have a chance to win something, but it is usually minimal.
Therefore, usually the idea and the team are prepared in advance for the idea, 1-2 weeks before the event.
But more often than not, people find out about the event in 3-4 days, so the following minuses of the hackathon begin to surface:
Your code is go * but
No one is watching how you write the code, how much it is curved, how much the art is used, how much is used, how many bugs - the main thing is that within 2 minutes of the presentation everything works and does not fall.
90% of ideas are only suitable for hackathon
We want to make a social network of people search, which runs in the morning the same route as you. In order for the social network to somehow work, we need 10kk users at the time of launch, who are running.
People who are used to working 2 days in a row can not always work every day.
There are sprinters, there are marathon runners. Everything is simple and clear.
The fact that you have received the recognition of a jakaton jury does not guarantee anything
The idea is good, the jury liked it, everyone else did not. Did not find Central Asia.
There is not always a place to sleep.
Bonus! Every year there is a grand final, where you can see a lot of cool things.
Roulette:
Live music:
And a lot of other things!
Go to hackathons, have fun and experience!
Hackathon is a 1-2-3 day event where people come up with an idea and implement it in a short time. The best projects receive prizes, usually cash or some kind of device.
Details, as usual, under the cut.
Pros from trips to these events:
No need to pay for food
Yes, they usually feed on Hackathons, plus, so that people can work at night, the sea of power engineers is distributed.
')
No need to pay for office
At your disposal is an office that works around the clock, whenever you want, then you work. But for 1-3 days.
It helps to build a team and test its performance in combat conditions.
You can cheat yourself in a team of people who are willing to work for the idea, that is, in vain.
A very useful thing if you are a completely startup and you have a budget of 10k rubles.
To assemble a team of 12 people right on the hackathon - no problem!
New acquaintances in the IT field
Stars, most likely will not, but to meet with representatives of Samsung or Google and start a relationship with them is quite possible.
Loot
Notebooks, pens, t-shirts, and sometimes boxes of food and energy. A very useful thing for survival.
Party and fun
I’ll say right away that if you go to the hackathon alone, you have a chance to win something, but it is usually minimal.
Therefore, usually the idea and the team are prepared in advance for the idea, 1-2 weeks before the event.
But more often than not, people find out about the event in 3-4 days, so the following minuses of the hackathon begin to surface:
Your code is go * but
No one is watching how you write the code, how much it is curved, how much the art is used, how much is used, how many bugs - the main thing is that within 2 minutes of the presentation everything works and does not fall.
90% of ideas are only suitable for hackathon
We want to make a social network of people search, which runs in the morning the same route as you. In order for the social network to somehow work, we need 10kk users at the time of launch, who are running.
People who are used to working 2 days in a row can not always work every day.
There are sprinters, there are marathon runners. Everything is simple and clear.
The fact that you have received the recognition of a jakaton jury does not guarantee anything
The idea is good, the jury liked it, everyone else did not. Did not find Central Asia.
There is not always a place to sleep.
Bonus! Every year there is a grand final, where you can see a lot of cool things.
Roulette:
Live music:
And a lot of other things!
Go to hackathons, have fun and experience!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/230209/
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