Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes
We're bored with doing shiny iDevices or similar, and want to give away something more interesting.
What are some of the coolest hackathon prizes you've seen/thought of?
What are some of the coolest hackathon prizes you've seen/thought of?
1. Things that I want but could not have done before
These would be experiences or collectors items. Having lunch with Linus or PG would be examples of this category; items like a box of AirBnB's ObamaO's.
2. Things that I want and could get myself
For this one, there are two sub-categories: A. relevant B. shiny.
A. For a hackathon like photohackday, give away cameras. For something like hackforchange, hire exec to do community service for me or donate an OLPC under my name.
B. Give me something shiny. Galaxy Nexus, Kindle (though these are hard to split among a group). Money also works though a bit awkward (unless it's a big sum).
3. Things I don't want
I know you think your service is super awesome, but please don't just give me a pro account. Most of the times, I don't use it and therefore it's value to me is 0. Give it away with something else. (nb: dropbox space, on the other hand, would be valuable)
Other is allowing these hacks to be shown to people whom we respect and get feedback. Eg: "What does Jack Dorsey think about my bit coin hack."
What about a hackathon ABOUT those helicopters? Everyone gets helicopters, there's lots of parts, and the winner does something cool?
I haven't yet tried RC helicopters, but I'd definitely start on one.
One problem is that they are infrared and not radio.
I really wanted to win that.
Hope you could win one :)
In lieu of that though, how about about PC parts? A sweet GPU/mobo/PSU would be awesome.
Mechanical keyboards; good earphones etc.