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Hah! I would have won that segment hands down; figuring out the flaws in things is one of my stronger skills.
That said, after being there for 12 hours, I'm pretty sure most people would have no desire to do that.
The best system, I believe, is ranking by the Hackathon participants. My boyfriend has been to two company sponsored Hackathons, and has run into the same issue. At the one where the bullshit project won, the managers did the judging. At the one where the decent project one, the voting system involved all the attendees ranking all the projects. Even if everyone put their own project in the top slot, the Actually Best project would still end up being the winner (which is what happened). -
@devshopmike I'm going to avoid naming names, but from my limited experience and stories from other people, I believe the judging issue is pretty endemic. Which, combined with the time commitment, is probably why I'll continue to avoid them in the future. I only went to this one because it was free, since my company was one of the major sponsors.
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I thought this kinda shit only happened in my country! So relatable! 'Hackathon' is now just a marketing hype word event organizers use to promote their event.
It's not about hacking something as we programmers picture. In the 'hackathon' I went to, it was an entrepreneurship contest, lots of talking from the sponsors, some networking and almost no time put into hacking or getting an idea done. -
Sounds like we should do a devRant hackathon. Lookin at you @dfox....
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@wickedrobin EXACTLY
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That's shitty. Taking a hackathon where the point is to quickly build something and turning it into a pitch competition. Two very different things. I was just looking at a list of upcoming hackathons, and it seemed clear from the hosts and descriptions that they all had their own little agendas to push
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I also participated in hackathon hosted by Microsoft. They had 5 criteria.
1. should be made on azure space provided by them.
2. Should me new code.
3. Completeness,Scalability and quality of code.
4. Idea should fit in given 5 category.
We struggled so much just Hecuba of these criteria, while night . and other people who didn't fulfilled these criteria won. We made to the 4th.
One of those winning idea was a dating app.
Hackathons should not be judged by non-technical people.
I went to a Hackathon yesterday, and only two teams (mine included, of course 😉) made projects that I thought sufficiently fulfilled all the judging criteria.
The winning "project"? Literally just a two slide proposal about asking Niantic to turn the summer time free lunch distribution bus into a Pokestop. Because obviously the best way to motivate children who can't afford food to go get free summer lunches is to use a tie-in with a smart phone game. Because Niantic is so famously responsive to community requests. Because you can totally turn a bus into a Pokestop.
It was absurd, and I have no idea how it fulfilled the "impact" and "viability" judging criteria (as for the third criteria, "innovation", I suppose not coding anything at a Hackathon is pretty innovative!)
I knew that some flashy bullshit project would win, even if it was utterly unviable, but I didn't realize just how disgustingly absurd the winning project would be
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