Hackathons 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!
It’s been like that for at least a decade.
It's all about the pitch the other half.
I’ve seen powerpoint presentations win, and that was my last hackathon
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
I thought I was the only one wondering why people are preparing in advanced with polish and not much to build the day of.
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Judges are managers with typical mediocre technicality