4 Ways to Win a Hackathon (None of Them Is Writing Code)
Written by Tudor Evans.
As Jean-Luc Godard once said, every story has a beginning, a middle and an end - but not necessarily in that order.
Allow me, then, to start at the end, and tell you that I won my company’s annual hackathon (well, I won in one of three categories to be precise).
The winning ticket was a MacOS dictation app. Instructions for use were as follows. Put cursor in text area. Press right option. Speak. Win.
Simple, clean, effective. Your voice was your keyboard wherever you went. It was, in the lingo of the online youth, “wiggety-wack”.
Alas, this was no triumph for me. Rather, it was a relief. It was a relief because I’d spent the previous week pointedly telling everyone that I really, really was going to win the hackathon, and that there was no point in them even competing.
Imagine the humiliation if...
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