It’s completely optional, but some of us thought it would be cool to build something from scratch to extend the existing products.
I’m writing the software application from scratch, lol..Thank god I only need to do this on one platform.
I haven’t worked this much since my startup days. Fun. But fortunately there’s a hard cutoff by EOD today. I think there’s pretty large participation among the engineering teams, which is pretty cool.
Each demo gets 10 minute air time with CEO and his execs…Gulp. Need more coffee.
[quote=spdrun]Why not announce the due date a month in advance and have people work on what they want in their spare time? Hackathons are meh.[/quote]
Then that wouldn’t be a hackathon. You don’t “hack” for a month.
The demo ended up being 2 minutes with Q&A. I think the CEO and the 3 the execs liked it.. It came in 2nd place for the given category. Too bad it wasn’t 1st place. Being #2 is the story of my life….Lol. Anyway, it was fun.
A little bit off topic but just thought I’d throw this question out there. What percentage of software written is susceptible to hacking ? At first I thought it would be like 98% but then I thought about it a little longer and I’m guessing 90%, anybody else care to guess? It’s how Bill Gates started out among others.
Last time I did something like a 48hour prog/hack, I was at UCSD taking EECE 163 (Compiler construction). It was fun though, in somewhat of a masochistic way. I think I went to the 56 hour mark. I remember walking home as the sun was rising. At the same time, my brain was in a weird wide awake numb condition.
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