YC Fall Hackathon 2019
blog.ycombinator.com
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Can this be made remote? It'd help us non Americans/American non Californians to apply.
From the application page :-
Important note: This is an application, not a signup form. We have an application instead of a first-come, first-served signup because it helps guarantee a diverse group of participants and that matters a lot to us.
It seems counter intuitive to base this in Mountain View if you care about diversity. Non American Hackers, Americans who aren't in California get disqualified immediately.
I went last year — didn't have an idea to work on nor anyone to work with.
Met some awesome people I still hang out with, hacked on some cool stuff, and later applied late to W19 with one of them (we got an interview).
Highly recommend.
From the more details page after you click through the link
Of course no one's going to check if you worked on it last night or whatnot (I know friends who've taken previous hackathon submissions and submit it to hackathons like it's new and actually won) but for the hackathon spirit you shouldn't.
I imagine with a ycombinator interview on the line that sort of behavior will only be more prevalent.
I'd be more than happy to help organize/host it.
I don't want 10 IoT devices each with their own mics and cameras. I want one device from a brand I trust, which veritably doesn't phone home other than updates, with a dirt-simple API for integration. All other devices can take commands from this one. The age of Alexa and Google Home and "smart TVs" with microphones needs to disappear.
If tenable, the idea could be extended to other sensitive domains such as payment processing with a token system.
Just a thought. Could be hackathon material if I find a good partner.
The only phoning home is OS updates, and then whatever you program the VM to do. So you could take audio in on the device, send to cloud VM, then send to some sort of homebrew speech to text (or be a total fucking badass and squeeze your own speech to text in squirrel code onto the VM itself).
Is revenue a factor? Because if so, I’d argue not spending the two days building something.