Hack your life in 24 hours

In this talk, I discuss about how hackathons can change your life, right from the formative years of your life. I also address common misconceptions, hackathon 101 and some tips and tricks as to why you should go to hackathons.

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1. Hack your life in 24 hours
2. PhonePe iOS Engineer raywenderlich.com Contributor
5. Freshman The Timeline
6. No skills No confidence Doesn’t know what to do
7. Exploring Competitive Programming Waiting for Academics to teach me something useful College societies
8. Exploring Competitive Programming Waiting for Academics to teach me something useful College societies
9. Exploring Competitive Programming Waiting for Academics to teach me something useful College societies
10. Exploring Competitive Programming Waiting for Academics to teach me something useful College societies
11. ~10% 70% Attendance Marks
13. Android
14. Android iOS
15. Android iOS Unity
16. Android iOS DevOps Unity
17. Android Angular iOS Flask Django DevOps Kubernetes PHP Javascript Swift Java C# Flutter Xamarin Unity
18. Android Angular iOS Flask Django DevOps Kubernetes PHP Javascript Swift Java C# Flutter Xamarin Unity
19. Choosing my field
20. Sophomore
21. Let’s go to a hackathon!
22. WTH is this stuff?
23. No!
24. The fear that I will fail, took over.
25. He won that hackathon.
27. Infinite Concentration
28. Explosion of Creativity
29. Doing Impossible Stuff
30. Waking up for 48 hours straight
31. Internship at Zomato, PhonePe or even Google
32. Free!
33. That is a hackathon!
34. It’s so addicitve!
35. Permissionless Innovation
36. Permissionless Innovation Ideate
37. Permissionless Innovation Ideate Build
38. Permissionless Innovation Ideate Build Present
39. Permissionless Innovation Ideate Build Present Judge
40. You ideate on something
41. You ideate on something You have a weekend to build it
42. You ideate on something You have a weekend to build it Set aside concentrated time
43. You ideate on something You have a weekend to build it Set aside concentrated time Making it a full-fledged product
44. Software
45. Software Hardware
46. Software Hardware Art
47. Collaboration is ❤
48. You’ll see the best guys running around to help others.
49. A hackathon is a gym for your mind
50. Become an app dev? Become a backend engineer? You just wanna get good at pitching?
51. Common misconception
52. I don’t know anything
53. I don’t know anything I am not qualified for this!
54. I don’t know anything I am not qualified for this! I don’t know how to code
55. Neither did I!
56. I just showed up
57. You go in a hackathon, and come out a hacker, not the other way around.
58. My first hackathon
60. Text Analysis Customer services Financial Services Explainable AI Chatbots
62. Ready to learn at his own pace
63. Ready to learn at his own pace Understands some tech
64. Ready to learn at his own pace Understands some tech Loads of Enthusiasm
65. Python + Telegram
66. A bot that tells you ticket prices, and holiday essentials.
67. How
68. Won that Hackathon!
69. It was an instant rush.
70. I learnt all things there and then
71. I learnt all things there and then I was ideating real-life products
72. I learnt all things there and then I was ideating real-life products Collaborating with other peeps
73. Kept an eye on all hackathons..
74. Attended a couple of 24 hour hackathons
75. Pre-Grad
76. Learns skills on the fly Explored tech Confident
77. Attending Hackathons
78. Attending Hackathons Left
79. Attending Hackathons Left Right
80. Attending Hackathons Left Right Center
81. Every Weekend 7⃣
82. Confidence
83. Started Winning
84. I lost a few hackathons.
85. All part of the game.
86. Most importantly, I was gymming with my brain regularly
87. Internship Opportunity
88. Did pretty well
89. Got the internship and a return offer after it.
90. Quick Thinking
91. Quick Thinking Optimised Solutions
92. Quick Thinking Optimised Solutions No specific comfort zone
93. Quick Thinking Optimised Solutions Ability to adapt No specific comfort zone
94. That’s it.
95. That’s it. That was the hardest part of the puzzle.
96. Hackathon 101 1⃣ 0⃣ 1⃣
97. Why Hackathon? ✅
98. Network
99. Collection of developers, designers, hustlers.
100. Experience
101. The best way to learn is experience, and experience builds your portfolio.
102. Prizes
103. You could end up with free tech gadgets, even cryptocurrency.
104. Free stuff
105. You get a lot of swag - T-shirts, hoodies, fidget spinners and what not. Plus Free Food.
106. 7⃣ No plans on weekend
107. You wanted to be productive. Here’s your chance.
108. Why Not Hackathon? ❌
109. Sleep is important.
110. A lot of the times you will get so caught up in making progress you forget the progress of time.
111. Not agreeing
112. Great ideas don’t always win. Great executions do. That can be frustrating. ❌
113. What if…
114. What if… (the stop making excuses section)
115. I’m new to this
116. The only requirement is your will to learn. ✅
117. I don’t have a team
118. Nothing is stopping you from walking around and finding one. Hell, hack alone!
119. Didn’t win?
120. At least you got swags, eh? ✅
121. Don’t like free food?
122. Seek professional help! ⚕
123. What else to consider?
124. Your own schedule Proximity Sponsoring companies you want to check Judges you want to meet Travel Reimbursement
125. Where do I find hackathons to attend?
126. devpost.com eventbrite.com hackathon.io hackathon.com devfolio.co
127. People I’ve hacked with
128. Akshay Baweja Amanjeet Singh Manan Pal Singh Gursehaj Singh Jasmine Sodhi Hardeep Singh Gur Raunaq Singh Taran Preet Singh Divya Koneti Manjog Singh Angad Singh Dilpreet Singh Ashish Gulati Anamika Rajdeep Singh Piyush Gandhi Gaurav Rawal Gurpreet Singh
129. Events I’ve been to
130. Vortex Hackathon IIT-Delhi IBM BlueMix Hackathon HackDTU Randome Hacks of Kindness HackMAIT ClashHacks HashHacks AngelHack InOut 3.0 Rajasthan Hackathon Mhacks Nano Mhacks X Yobi Hack the Climate O(1) Hacks HackNSIT Smart India Hackathon Ultrahack HackGTBIT HackJunction NASA SpaceApps Challenge HackBVP Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge
131. Thank You!