Nihal and his friends at HackaNoodle 2022 What do you say when someone asks you why are you participating in a Hackathon? Saying that you’ve come to a hackathon for (free) food is not the ideal response, and more so to a CEO. It was a Saturday morning, and I was in the Blinkit headquarters for a hackathon. Our team…
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22 Nov 2022
10 Feb 2022
Hackathons, innovation days, codefests — whatever you call them — have been a feature of the tech industry for the last 20 years, and one of the most powerful ideation tools at our disposal. The premise is simple, given a theme or problem space, the hackathon participants must self-organise into teams to explore ideas, write some code, and deliver a…
19 Sept 2021
What we did for #SpawnFest 2021 For almost ten years, I waited patiently but actively. And finally, the time has come! I was able to participate again in my all-time favorite hackathon: SpawnFest . In this article, I’ll show how Mariano, Manuel , Tetiana, and I spent the last 48 hours emojifying as many Erlang modules as possible. Yes, that’s…
7 May 2021
By: Wayne Pichotta Hackathons are a powerful tool to accelerate innovation by requiring usable and useful code in just a matter of days, these events prioritize substantive progress over lofty perfection. We’ve hosted several of these Hackathons internally at Truecar in the past few years, with a surprising number of groundbreaking ideas finding themselves refined and productionized after the Hackathon…