A hackathon is any event of any duration where people come together to solve problems.
This is a complete and synthetic definition of what an hackathon is.
Usually in the tech field an Hackathon is a big event where promoters/companies challenge teams to overcome challenges and solve problems in a time constrained environment.
The teams can be both "pre-made" or formed on the fly during the event.
This kind of event is mainly used by the companies for two reason:
- Finding new talents
- Marketing the company itself who is organising/promoting the hack
The hackers instead find this a good way of connecting to fellow hackers and to up skill theirselves.
Personally I've participated into lots of those hackathon and just recently I experienced a new kind of hack, which really made my dev life, a lot better.
I currently work in a Tech department (1.5 years old) as a backend software engineer of a non-tech related company (~15 years old) doing the best to modernise it and make a huge breakthrough with a "digital wave" of solutions.
I'm also part of a team (that ourselves) called "Flexers" and we, as a team, decided to take on a big challenge and make an hackathon out of it.
We set the epics, investigated on feasibility and profitability for the company and then we just took a flight to Portugal to reach the goals in a week.
It is a really game changer in the team-building routine you might have in a company, since it will put have the team creating bonds while cooking or deciding what to do for the evenings.
On top of that, communication and exchange of ideas is 200% (really accurate rate) increased and better because everyone has an high level of comfort while working.
These were my outtakes of the last week, I sure it won't apply to everybody, but I just wanted to make it public as a good way of learning stuff and creating good synergies between people.
Please comment with your opinion on this :D
P.s. of course we reached the goal by implementing Stripe in-person terminal and Call-center payments for our CRM ;)
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