alt Hacker NewsHackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
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Teknoman117 • today at 7:15 AM
It’s been like that for at least a decade.
giancarlostoro • today at 2:24 AM
It's all about the pitch the other half.
yieldcrv • today at 4:56 AM
I’ve seen powerpoint presentations win, and that was my last hackathon
aprilthird2021 • today at 5:03 AM
When did this happen? I remember judges at hackathons used to be very forgiving about lackluster UIs as long as the idea was cool and at least functional by the presentation time
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j45 • today at 1:45 AM
I thought I was the only one wondering why people are preparing in advanced with polish and not much to build the day of.
aaron695 • today at 2:58 AM
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Judges are managers with typical mediocre technicality