Participants were asked feedback questions and their top answers are below:
What Types of Resources Are the Biggest Help to You When You Participate in a Hackathon?
Example Project Code
Chat Support
Relevant Project Ideas
What Takes the Most Time luxembourg telegram screening During a Hackathon?
Working on the project
Coming up with an idea
Learning the required technology/tool
What Are the Top Three Things You Consider When Picking a Hackathon?
Prize amount
What I will learn
Date and time commitment
These answers are really interesting and we have already completed some follow-up user interviews to understand why they selected these and how we can improve our inputs.
The idea submissions were in a realm of their own because we got to see what hackers think will help hackers. We posted the winners here, which I highly suggest you check out, and we looked at the ideas as overall themes. The top themes were:
Team building
Education and resources
Time management
Submission form user experience
Devpost’s Product team already has two influential projects on the roadmap straight from our users.
Learning from every hackathon
Hosting a hackathon always goes beyond just organizing an event. Hackathons offer a unique opportunity to get to know developers using your tools and collect valuable feedback. They provide a genuine way to engage with the developer community and drive innovation. By leveraging the insights gained from Hack Devpost, we can now better focus our efforts on initiatives that will more likely improve the ease of submission and the incentive to submit which overall is to inspire developers to build great software.
I recommend hosting a hackathon for anyone looking for feedback from developers!