Hosting a Hackathon as Launching Strategy. Is It a Good Idea?
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The author considers hosting a hackathon as a launching strategy and asks if it's a good idea.
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Why it took that long? Because we wanted it to be as simple as possible to create agents and connecting them. Think it as Vercel but for agents with autoscaling and managed memory.
To see if our ideas actually work, we thought a hackathon could be a good way to get people to try it out. Have you seen other companies do this? Did it work for them? We are targeting junior devs and university students. Feel free to share your thoughts