Zenigame
@zeni.eth
Last week, I went to the @ethglobal Taipei Hackathon. By Sunday, I had a cancelled return flight, one sponsor prize, one finalist placing, a 4am nearly all-nighter, and a product I was legitimately proud of. Taipei was my second ETHGlobal hackathon after participating in the ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum hackathon in late January together with @markcarey (when we made /streme), and my third ever together with last year's Moxiethon. A few reflections: - I came in the day before without a concrete idea. My partner and I spent a whole day ideating and doing due diligence on ideas. It was worth it. - Great partners are the best. - I probably can't be chill during hackathons. As soon as I smell blood in the water, I can't help but push to win. - Which meant staying up till 4am polishing the night before the due date...HRV is looking unsurprisingly rough still. I'm not that young so should be careful. Continued...
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Mark Carey π©π«
@markcarey
Well done! I have only done two IRL hackathons with short hacking time windows like this. For me, sleep simply is not an option the night before the due date. Both times I was very surprised to see how many people actually were sleeping, the caffeinated zombies like me were in the minority π€·ββοΈ
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Zenigame
@zeni.eth
Thank you! I always tell people how much of a beast you are, so unsurprising that you pull all-nighters by default. I can't think of any other way you'd be able to put together such a beautiful modular contract architecture. After the /streme hackathon took longer than expected to recover from, I went into this one trying to "be smart about things". Alas...
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