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by dabockster
413 days ago
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That has been the case since about 2017 for me. MLH took over a ton of college level hackathons and made them into a psuedo e-sports competition. And most of their prizes were for best uses of sponsored APIs and services - like "best use of AWS Lambda(TM)" or something. And then all the other events followed suit. That behavior ruined the original ideas and incentives behind hackathons: networking and building cool stuff. Because why build something actually cool and sustainable when you have all those sponsors shoving free API credits in your face all the time you're at the event? |
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