[untog]

Agreed. It took me a long time to realise this, too. I'd go to hackathons and put together a working demo that lacked polish, then lose to people who basically put together a pitch deck with some HTML mockups attached.

Maybe it's just getting old, but the idea of exhausting myself over a weekend in order to create something I'll likely never use again has lost it's appeal. Every now and then I'll be disciplined and tell myself I'm having a "hack weekend" where I'm relatively anti-social, stay at home and work on a project. It's a lot more fulfilling.