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avidas

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Great to see a fellow PayPal Austinite on HN Chris! For a lot of people really quick and easy way to have a personal site up and running. Couple suggestions, possibly add system requirements and deploy instructions (possibly deploy to heroku/or deploy to digitalocean button) ?

From my experience of going to 20+ hackathons, few things come to mind

1. Have a well defined target audience and reach out early. People make weekend plans.

2. Be very clear about judging criteria.

3. Heavy presence of organizers throughout the event. It's not always easy for newbies at hackathon's, and organizers/mentors being around during the whole thing is great motivation.

4. A good venue where people can find quiet space/at the same time space to socialize.

5. Find a good balance between cheerleading during the hackathon and people working. Sponsor events are important, but continuous interruptions do not help flow work.

:wq 12 years ago

Write and quit on vi/vim, its quite hilarious to see them actually on code :)