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I'm attempting to make US hospital prices searchable and comparable after congress enacted price transparency.
I'm aware that there are severe problems here as the prices are so opaque. The prices quoted are not the insurance-negotiated prices, it's taking time to load in and clean up all the data, hospital compliance with transparency is... mixed... But we have to move the ball forward somehow. Also the site is missing many obvious features that I'm hacking (like human-readable procedure names like "cat scan" = "ct imaging" but hey.
All feedback welcome, thanks!
I'm getting pretty close to buying Scrivener - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview - despite it's various weird interface choices and apparently multiple conflicting codebases for difference OS.
I've also run in to the limits of Inkscape and can crash/hang it reliably which will mean a move to Adobe, which I've never touched before.
Curious to hear what else is out there?
Typically our hackathons are 3 days long and are self-organized in to teams who go for various bounties. Anyone can suggest a bounty which might come with a trophy and maybe a gift card. Typically - but not exclusively - the hacks have been work related. We usually have a food challenge too during the event. Last time it was "who could eat the most pirogies" (the winner ate 100 over 3 days :-) ). We have a show & tell event at the end and open voting on the winners.
We're open to changing things up!
What have you seen (timing, tasks, organizationally or anything else) that works well or poorly in a hackathon?
Thanks HN!