![]() I think Slack is pretty awesome and I’ve tried out a bunch of Slack apps. Google Assistant is cool and could be interesting to develop for, but it turns out I’ve spent a fair bit of time using Slack. I’m not yet familiar with blockchain technology… or AR or AI. All I had to do was find a problem in one of these categories. It narrowed down the list of possible problems to solve. Seeing these options actually made things easier for me. You don’t have to build for any of them, but some cool prizes are awarded within these specific categories. In the Product Hunt competition, there are a bunch of existing platforms you can build for: Google Assistant, Slack, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. And in that problem, there would be a solution. I’m using that same advice in the Product Hunt hackathon. Students often forget what homework they’re assigned during the day, so I needed to build something that would stop people from forgetting their assignments. I followed that advice when I chose to work on a homework bot. If enough people have a problem and your product solves it well, and you can find a way to share your solution with those people, it has a good chance of succeeding. The ideas that catch on always seem to solve a problem. My dad and I talked about how some ideas catch on, and some don’t. It also got acquired! But, you can read about that in my other Medium story here.īefore choosing to work on Christopher Bot, I had lots of ideas for products to build. It’s called Christopher Bot, a Facebook Messenger bot that helps high school students remember their homework, and it’s been written about here and here and here. I’ve already built something that started out as an idea. The third and final stage telling everyone how helpful your product is and convincing them to try it (the run).Ĭompressing all of these stages into a short moment in time.The second stage is about turning the idea into something real (the cycle).The first stage is about coming up with the idea (the swim).Just like in a regular triathlon, there are 3 stages, which all require a lot of skill and endurance: Shortly after I registered for the month-long event, I realized that competing in this hackathon is similar to entering a real triathlon. And it’s a chance to compete under pressure. It’s a hard-fought race to the finish (if you even manage to finish). It’s kind of like a triathlon for developers, who often go for days with minimal sleep. They’re an opportunity for product makers meet up, drink Red Bulls, and stay up all night coding. Crazy!įrom what I’ve seen in my 3 years as a student programmer, developers love hackathons. It runs for the month of November and there are 7,950 people participating from around the world ?. I’m 15, and I recently signed up for the Global Hackathon by Product Hunt. By Alec Jones How a hackathon is kind of like a real-life triathlon - but with more caffeine ![]()
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