Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Pick Something
Search
Liz Howard
January 18, 2013
Programming
2
510
Pick Something
My talk at Everybody Hacks on how to pick something to actually complete at a hackathon.
Liz Howard
January 18, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Liz Howard
See All by Liz Howard
CAP Theorem
icyfenix
0
140
SheCodes Talk
icyfenix
0
310
Hacking the System (My Story)
icyfenix
0
1.5k
Debugging a technology you've never seen before
icyfenix
0
120
Gay Marriage from a Database Engineering Perspective
icyfenix
5
1.9k
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
なぜ「共通化」を考え、失敗を繰り返すのか
rinchoku
1
610
Result型で“失敗”を型にするPHPコードの書き方
kajitack
4
540
“いい感じ“な定量評価を求めて - Four Keysとアウトカムの間の探求 -
nealle
0
250
Modern Angular with Signals and Signal Store:New Rules for Your Architecture @enterJS Advanced Angular Day 2025
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
160
すべてのコンテキストを、 ユーザー価値に変える
applism118
2
980
Google Agent Development Kit でLINE Botを作ってみた
ymd65536
2
210
Railsアプリケーションと パフォーマンスチューニング ー 秒間5万リクエストの モバイルオーダーシステムを支える事例 ー Rubyセミナー 大阪
falcon8823
4
1k
PHP 8.4の新機能「プロパティフック」から学ぶオブジェクト指向設計とリスコフの置換原則
kentaroutakeda
2
680
What Spring Developers Should Know About Jakarta EE
ivargrimstad
0
330
Blazing Fast UI Development with Compose Hot Reload (droidcon New York 2025)
zsmb
1
270
datadog dash 2025 LLM observability for reliability and stability
ivry_presentationmaterials
0
320
WebViewの現在地 - SwiftUI時代のWebKit - / The Current State Of WebView
marcy731
0
100
Featured
See All Featured
Bash Introduction
62gerente
614
210k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
69
18k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
2.9k
Facilitating Awesome Meetings
lara
54
6.4k
The Straight Up "How To Draw Better" Workshop
denniskardys
234
140k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
94
14k
Visualization
eitanlees
146
16k
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
346
40k
Docker and Python
trallard
44
3.4k
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
thoeni
21
3.3k
4 Signs Your Business is Dying
shpigford
184
22k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
28
3.9k
Transcript
Pick Something: How to choose what to do in 2
days Thursday, January 17, 13
What are we doing? Thursday, January 17, 13
Something BIG! Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/luisrubio/189574813/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Thursday, January 17, 13
No. Thursday, January 17, 13
Something Small! But with a big impact! Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ringai/3975402556/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Thursday,
January 17, 13
Brainstorm what you want Thursday, January 17, 13
Brainstorm what you want Pick ONE great idea Thursday, January
17, 13
Brainstorm what you want Pick ONE great idea Pick ONE
feature Thursday, January 17, 13
Brainstorm what you want Pick ONE great idea Pick ONE
feature Implement that ONLY! Thursday, January 17, 13
Fake the rest. Thursday, January 17, 13
Don’t • Reinvent the wheel • Be an architecture astronaut
• Forget that you’re at a Hackathon - operative word HACK! Thursday, January 17, 13
Do: • Use libraries (ALL THE LIBRARIES) • Use APIs
• Use screenshots and mockups to explain other parts of your app (that you didn’t do) Thursday, January 17, 13
5 Quick Tips Thursday, January 17, 13
Involve a Developer 1. Thursday, January 17, 13
Smaller than a Minimum Viable Product 2. Thursday, January 17,
13
This Isn’t Production 3. Thursday, January 17, 13
Focus on what you did (not what you didn’t do)
4. Thursday, January 17, 13
All it has to do is fly once 5. Thursday,
January 17, 13
Have Fun! 6. (I lied) Thursday, January 17, 13