Thank you!
I had the pleasure of attending AngelHack london in April, and it was amazing. Keep up the great work!
I was at AngelHack London in April and ended up just doing a demo (of https://github.com/matt-williams/argolf) because I couldn't get my laptop connected to the projector.
I'm glad they're focusing even more on what you've actually built in a weekend vs what dreams you've spun.
This is great! The last angelhack I went to was the exact opposite and it was pretty demoralizing getting a bunch of negative feedback from VC-ish judges even though it was 100% working and 100% built from scratch by myself in 24hrs (which was blatantly obvious most weren't via simple Google search) and it looked good and was using pretty advanced real time web technology[1]. It actually kinda bummed me out on hackathons for a while.
[1] Heres the app if you're interested http://whereyouat.meteor.com
At the ATX event, there were no demos. Not even a public presentation to the rest of the participants, we were just grilled in a closed-room session by their panel on a bunch of business questions.
The only way to get a T-Shirt was to listen to a sales pitch by one of their sponsors.
Everyone was absolutely crammed in their space. I really hope they find a new venue for Austin.
Maybe this event just went poorly but everyone I went with was really soured on AngelHack after that.
The bootcamp aspect is an interesting one. Would you accept apps that were built in HTML/JS and PhoneGapped? I've seen that approach used more and more at hackathons, due to speed. Android/iOS is definitely doable (I've built both at hackathons/startup weekends), but for someone completely new to the platform, it'll be slower. So allowing skeleton apps, templates and frameworks could even the playing field a little.
Reward, a coupon code that you can apply for a free ticket to an angelhack hackathon.
As such, I'm super excited to see how this event differs in practice and have already signed up to volunteer.
