[heyparkerj]

My organization's most recent hack day was won by the UX team signing up for a free demo of a chat bot service and demoing it - not a single line of code. We haven't had one since, nor do we use chat bots anywhere in our org a few years later.

[skinnymuch]

How could that win? Others are saying slides were presented. Demoing a SaaS chat bot is nothing!

[mohanmcgeek]

I can tell you this exact thing happened at my company's hackathon and it finished pretty close to a win.

It was the Alexa prompt driven chatbot. Not a single line of code was written.

[dexwiz]

Hackathons are not about tech, they are about business value now. They are a chance for individual contributors or low level managers to present business ideas to their bosses. Bosses don’t really care about tech.