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by adrr 5071 days ago
Hackathon is about technology not about building products. The cancer that has infected the tech industry has bastardized the word. Prototyping something with bootstrap, rails and sqllite is now a hackathon and focus is more on design than technology. I bet there were more designers,marketers, product people than devs at this hackathon. Afterward the demos are built, the cancer(marketing/pr/sales/product people) will ask the developers to build the real product and offer such awesome terms like working for free for two months and getting 5% in RSUs.

Developers need to learn, they don't need these leaches. If you're the original developer and not getting over 30% of the equity, you're getting fucked.