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The hard truth is that 9 of 10 applications (commercial or start-ups) are just mistakes. So whats the point of delivering well documented and beautiful designed app that nobody use? That is why i think that hackatons in order to deliver good enough product and test your hypotesis does make sense. If it`s a market fit, then i agree - lets clean up the mess and develop it in normal way

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Certainly agree on high failure rate. Unfortunately for most, that is not achieved in the span of a hackathon, or using the style of hackathon development, which cannot be sustained.

It often takes months to reach product-market fit... and if you have a team of people working on an app together, and you are having customers sign up and use your app, you need it to look beautiful, and your ability to collaborate with colleagues over those months needs to be functional.

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