5 Tips on Winning Your First Hackathon

Hackathons can be very daunting. I hope that with my video you are able to get rid of any fears of attending hackathons and jump into your first hackathon experience. In this video, I explain my 5 top tips on winning your first hackathon. I personally love going to hackathons. I've been to Techcrunch Distrupt, Reactathon, Developer Week, Chime Hack, and many more. I was lucky enough to win 4 out the many hackathons I went to and our team won over $20,000 in prizes so far. I hope you have as much luck as I have and go for it. Most of these ideas should be actionable so I wish you all the best of luck.

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[varunv]

real legends would be the ones watching this video in their final few hours of the hackathon when they have nothing done XD

[eddiejaoude]

Great tips 👍. After 15 years of coding professionally, I still try to do a hackathon every month, I am confident to say I am still learning and enjoy meeting amazing people - I haven’t used a recruiter in many years, networking is important. I recently started vlogging my hackathons 🤓

[williamzheng]

Awesome vid. Subbed for the quality content and advice. Appreciate Joma for linking passionate coding viewers like us to your channel. Keep the great work!

[NXVIINXVII]

Came from Joma! Nice video man, keep it up and the subs will come<3

[cindaellas]

Thanks for that Video! Now I'm brave enough to go to a hackaton 🎉

[codertjay]

Is it okay to be a Django backend developer to join

[RadyRin]

Very nice and detailed of all videos I watched... <3

[VIPElaine]

Nice video, I wonder that prototype should be functioning (well programed ) or it can be a conceptually present ?

[Deep-cf]

Loved the video a lot also trying to get into Software engineering and you just gave me a hint.
Thanks I'll look forward for hackathons. 🙂

[esjihn]

understated how important sketching out views for everyone involved.

[zuest]

would it be a good idea to ditch the backend part and just make some fake File file or functionality that acts as a Rest Api? i think if no one snoops into my code it would save me a-lot of time and i could focus more on the frontend.

[umedjadhav]

Awesome information ... Thanks bro ... And by the way loved the background score .. can you tell me the name ?

[silverpharoah]

What r all the books that u have in ur background?