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Nowadays hackathons are really not hackathon. You might have a vision of hackers coming together building things for the sake of building things. No, nowadays hackathon has been corrupted by VC to see what ideas to invest in.

I've gone through one where the winner was a team with a nice powerpoint presentation but with very little function built, while other teams much further along lost out, against the stated evaluation criteria of building software for the competition. Of course the judges were all VC looking for ideas. They should have called it an idea fest instead.

Hackathons are a waste of time for developers and hackers. You are better off doing a project with friends for fun, and see what stick afterward.