1. HISTORY | GREP ‘HACKATHON’
BY JON GOTTFRIED
FOR OPEN TECH NYC 2013

2. HI. I’M JON GOTTFRIED
Developer Evangelist at twilio
Conductor of the StartupBus
Co-Founder of the Hacker Union
@JonMarkGo

4. HACKATHONS ARE A BIG DEAL

5. HACKATHONS PER MONTH ON HACKERLEAGUE

6. PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999

7. OPENBSD
• June 4-6, 1999
• Focus on IPSEC
• Calgary, Alberta
• 10 developers
• communal

8. SUN MICROSYSTEMS
• June 15-19, 1999
• Palm V
• John Gage challenge
• competitive

9. HACKATHONS != STARTUPS

10. 2005 - SUPER HAPPY DEV HOUSE

11. FACEBOOK

12. 2005 - BARCAMP

13. 2006 - YAHOO!

14. 2007 - STARTUP WEEKEND

15. 2009 - MUSIC HACK DAY

16. 2010 - HACKNY

17. 2010 - TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT

18. 2011 - ANGELHACK

19. HACKATHONS PER MONTH ON HACKERLEAGUE

20. HACKATHON MOTHER SAUCES
• Startup Hackathon
• Open Source Hackathon
• Competitive Community Hackathon
• Brand Hackathon
• Non-technical Hackathon

21. STARTUP HACKATHON
• Not purely technical
• More practical concepts
• Mix between slides and demo
• Pre-pre-incubator

22. OPEN SOURCE HACKATHON
• Pure community event
• No financial incentive
• No pitches, just demos
• Focus on a particular technology

23. COMPETITIVE COMMUNITY HACKATHON
• Prizes galore
• Pitch is important
• Practicality is secondary

24. BRAND HACKATHON
• Prize is the incentive
• Brands want developer mindshare
• Brands want demo apps
• Not community focused

25. NON-TECHNICAL HACKATHONS
• “Ideathon”
• Business plan iteration
• Concept pitching
• Slide decks galore!

26. DOLLA DOLLA BILL Y’ALL
• Developer Mindshare
• Proof of Concepts
• Press
• Lead Generation
• Community Support
• Recruiting
• Free Labor

27. WHY DO WE HACK?
• Love
• Press
• Money
• Education
• Community

28. WHAT IS NEXT?

29. HACKING IS ART

30. THANK YOU!
Jon Gottfried
Developer Evangelist at twilio
@JonMarkGo
jon@twilio.com