Please join us at the GoDaddy Iasi office for an entire day full of fun, coding and discussions with your fellow programmers.
Any idea that you would like to work on is fair game. It may be a problem that you have been wanting to solve? A new technology you want to try? An idea that you want to experiment with? Something creative you want to develop. Your idea does not have to be GoDaddy related. Hackathon Ideas will not be filtered or approved to proceed.
Will be our pleasure to provide food and drinks, so you can focus on what you like most, coding.
No pre-work allowed. You may use open source or api’s that everyone has access to use, however, only the new work that you created during the 24-hours, will be judged. You can only build on top of previously created work, if that work is available to everyone to start with. You may not build on code that exists only in your own private repo. Only the new work that you created during the 24-hours, will be judged.
Insider information/data is prohibited, even if team consists of insiders. Using mock data for demo purposes is encouraged.
1 team, 1 hack project. Multiple teams will not be allowed to work on different aspects of the same hack project. Cannot have FE Team work part of a project and a BE team work another part. Teams are 2-5 people. You can ask others outside of your team for advice but they cannot contribute code to your hack project and are not considered part of your hack team if you win.
What are the Judging Categories?
Just Crazy Enough It Might Work – the sky is the limit on what cool, new thing, or technology you experiment with
Next Big Idea for Small Businesses – innovations that benefit a small business
Best Customer Experience – innovations that focus on creating flawless experiences that delight our customers and exceed their expectations
Best use of GoDaddy APIs
Who are the judges?
What is involved in the Demo?
Demos are the time when each of the Hackathon Team shows their work to the judges.
15 minutes per team:
5 minutes max pitch time per team
5 minutes for Judges Q&A
5 minutes for Judges Scoring and next team takes control of share
You should determine ahead of time, who is going to speak and demo for your Team. Introduce your team and whether all team members regularly work with each other or not. Explain what you are trying to achieve and why it’s great! No PowerPoint presentations allowed for the pitch – judges want to see what you created.
It is up to the team to determine the best way to demo what they created. For example:
If you used open source or shared apis, show the new code you created.
If it is a product change, demonstrate key features and explain how to use.
If it a new language you learned, demonstrate how you applied the learning.
Anyone may attend the pitches and hear what the teams completed, regardless if you participated on a team or not.
How will entries be judged?
The Judges will be selecting the winners for each category based on this criteria:
Impact: How much impact (quality and quantity) could this solution have? Could this solve a big or little problem?
Complexity: Did they start from scratch or build on an existing technology? How much progress did they make?
Completeness: Is it a complete solution or do they have a long ways to go? How good is their plan for next steps?
Communication: How well did the team demo & communicate the value? How well did they answer questions?
Innovation: Is this innovative and something a top technical team would produce?