[jesseryoung]

I tried to organize a corporate hackathon at one point in my career. My initial idea was to make it freeform. However after talking to people who wanted to participate, I found that nobody really had any ideas and just wanted to join and hack on somebody else's idea.

My (possibly incorrect) take away - people with great ideas will build them themselves without a hackathon.

I still love the idea of hackathons, I just don't know the right way to organize them.

[quickthrower2]

That might be a good sign. All the tech debt paid down and opportunities to play with your idea in normal work time, so nothing left for the hackathon.

Like similar to not having anything to say in 1-1s might be a sign of good communication in realtime.