Having been to many hackathons while I was in college, I think I can claim this hackathon as my most successful!
I think there are many factors that went into our success. We are all highly competent developers and we are all driven by writing quality software. I never felt like I had to burden more than my fair share of the work, and it is a great feeling to finish some endpoint or new feature on the backend, and almost immediately the frontend is utilizing it!
This was also my first hackathon with a designer on the team, and I don't think I ever want to go without one again! I am not good at things like color palettes, and certainly can't draw my own illustrations. But having a designer on the team meant that these considerations were met and exceeded. This creates a much more polished looking application; one that I want everyone to look at because it looks so nice.
I am looking forward to working with Alan and the other in future competitions. The hackathon space seems to be more focused on university students, but I hope they become more popular and more professionals will get involved!
Having been to many hackathons while I was in college, I think I can claim this hackathon as my most successful!
I think there are many factors that went into our success. We are all highly competent developers and we are all driven by writing quality software. I never felt like I had to burden more than my fair share of the work, and it is a great feeling to finish some endpoint or new feature on the backend, and almost immediately the frontend is utilizing it!
This was also my first hackathon with a designer on the team, and I don't think I ever want to go without one again! I am not good at things like color palettes, and certainly can't draw my own illustrations. But having a designer on the team meant that these considerations were met and exceeded. This creates a much more polished looking application; one that I want everyone to look at because it looks so nice.
I am looking forward to working with Alan and the other in future competitions. The hackathon space seems to be more focused on university students, but I hope they become more popular and more professionals will get involved!
I totally agree that our designer was essential to our success!