First Ever Krackathon - Reflections & Feedback
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1 votesHi everyone!
First of all, I want to extend a massive thank you to every single one of you who participated in our first ever Krackathon. We saw 38 submissions on our very first try and that is far beyond what we imagined, and the quality of work has been truly inspiring.
I also want to personally apologize for any technical hurdles or "buggy" moments you encountered during the submission process. While we are technically in beta, I take full ownership for not having every corner of the system battle-tested for an event of this scale. Thank you for your patience and for sticking with us through the growing pains.
As the developer for KrackedDevs.com, my goal is to build the most robust and mature platform possible for our community. To do that, I need your "unfiltered" input. Whether it's a critique of the UI, a recommendation for the next hackathon, or a specific bug you found, please let me know in the comments below.
Your feedback is the fuel that will help KD level up.
Best regards,
Jinbei
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asked 17 days agojinbei
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2 votesGreat work team - The Kracked Team can learn a lot from this and make the next ones better.
Let's make some stats for this Krackathon - Perhaps design a poster congratulating participiants etc
Maybe as pizofreude suggested ;
Participant Metrics
- Total participants vs completed submissions
- Geographic distribution of participants
- Retention rate (returning participants)
- Post-event survey response rate and satisfaction scores
Technical Metrics
- Popular stacks and programming languages used
- Submission categories breakdown
- Average lines of code per submission
- Completion rate (projects submitted vs started)
Engagement Metrics
- Social media engagement (mentions, shares, hashtag reach)
- Number of projects that continued development post-hackathon
Judging & Impact Metrics (if not under NDA)
- Judging statistics and criteria breakdowns
- Winner selection patterns
- Award distribution
answered 16 days agoenonforetsam
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That would be ohsem. On the flipside, as mentioned by @sky about doing different category for different dev discipline, here's my observations from popular hackathon platform like Devpost i.e. up to 6 criteria with equal weightage, judging groups by track/discipline/category-based prizes, multiday for online hackathon, clear guidelines for judging metrics. See their general recommendation here: https://info.devpost.com/blog/devpost-for-teams-features
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I personally love their multiday online hackathon, since this will level the ground and fair for all participants regardless of discipline. Maybe we can try it next time? Like briefing+launch on thursday or friday evening and cut-off on Sunday. This gives us time to plan project that solves real problem and not just another zombie app just for the sake of it.
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2 votesI think the event is just fine ,as there is some others organiser do so as well especially for time allocation, but separate category should be existed as both games dev and hackathons ideas dev is kinda not same, comparison between them may seems to be a bit conflict for different people.Also, a special thanks again to the team ,which conduct this wonderful event, the theme set is quite interesting .I am enjoying developing my ideas through the event and honored to share with others developers as well.Haha, best of luck to me for this krackzzzzz.
answered 17 days agoSky
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Hi Sky,
Thanks for the kind words! Really glad you enjoyed the theme and had a good time building out your ideas, and that’s exactly what we wanted to see.
You make a great point about separating categories. Game dev and traditional hackathon apps are definitely different beasts, and we’ll look into splitting them up next time to make judging a bit fairer for everyone.
Best of luck with the results! Krackzzzzz indeed! ⚡️
Cheers,
Jinbei
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Yup I agree, Making a web application and a video game are two different categories👨🏻💻 Thanks for the feedback @sky
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Thanks for the feedback Sky,
Agreed, next Hackathon we will definitely separate categories out!
We just hope everyone enjoyed building, and people now have an extra piece of software to add to their portfolio!
Thanks for joining and see you in the next one.
We promise to do a better job :D
