Inspiration
Motivating DevPost Hackathon participants to submit there projects with confidence
What it does
Last year I joint the JetBrains advent of code 2022 in Kotlin, as a challenge from one of my colleges, we both had little to no experience in Kotlin, but the fact that JetBrains made it so easy to start and to share your code by just giving a simple to follow instructions Blog (https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2022/11/advent-of-code-2022-in-kotlin/) and asking participants to add the topic "aoc-2022-in-kotlin" to their Repositories also made us feel like we where actually taking part.
one of my biggest concerns when joining a DevPost-Hackathon is that my Idea will get stolen and I'll lose my chance. and that is why I'm scared of submitting or even sometimes participating in Hackathons. The whole "no idea is a bad idea" just gets thrown out the window.
But hopefully if from DevPost-Hackathon's side it could be portrayed as more of a Group participation event to bring unique ideas to better the field of the challenge/hackathon than a competition to see who is the best, more people might join and submit there ideas. by providing them with a save environment to share, using Git's commit history and repo topics the judges will be able to easily find and see which user submitted which idea and if anyone just copied code from someone else.
as and example I have just created a empty GitHub public repo with the topic 'devpost-hackathon' (https://github.com/topics/devpost-hackathon)
Hopefully this helps to remove that "What if" thoughts when submitting code and ideas.
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