[jmalicki]

> As an engineer, my view on days/hackathons is pretty simple: you don't pay me enough for my good ideas.

That depends on how you interpret hack days.

A lot of great hack day projects I've seen aren't introducing a new product line, they're "what if we used this new framework, what's possible?" "What if we used transformers to replace our convolutional neural network" etc. - things that aren't a new product, but have a shot at improving the development flow/end user experience by 20+%, but are speculative enough that are hard to get scheduled in normal flow of development.

> At our most recent company hackathon, we focused on a new way to do the old thing. A lot of what great hackathons are.

Most hackathon projects are not something you'd be able to start a company around, if they are, maybe you're doing it wrong and overindexing on demos to PMs rather than potential company impact.

[Jemaclus]

We are in agreement :)