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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. You learn to partition tasks, share a codebase, and get along the process through good and bad as a team.

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Don’t let your corporate hackathon fail before it starts

Your Ideas are Terrible

Poor attendance. Teams without the right skills. We suggest making the goal a team sport so everyone buys into it. We suggest planning for a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 130 participants organized into 15-30 teams of 3-5 people (on average). These numbers allow for every team to demo their projects to the judges.

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Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. “Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. Why this matters to designers. Designers have a unique skill set.

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Hackathons simplified

hackerearth

A hackathon , also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. You learn to partition tasks, share a codebase, and get along the process through good and bad as a team.