Thanks @yabapmatt

Hi @themarkymark, I reblogged the STEMGeeks hackathon from a few months back https://hive.blog/hackathon/@themarkymark/stemgeek-s-hive-hackathon-results-and-update. It was exactly what I was thinking of when I made this post. If you're planning to do another one I will also consider contributing prize funds and mentoring as well, disqualifying myself from the prize pool.

For me it's not about the prize money it's more about encouraging more development of all the interesting use cases of Hive, like kickstarters, short-form content, games, bounty platforms, etc.

I think the next hackathon should have an element of contributing to existing projects on top of starting new ones since the percentage of projects that continue after a hackathon is very low.

I've been very involved in running hackathons for Ontology (https://ont.io) (Americas Ecosystem Lead) and @Blockchain-Edu (https://blockchainedu.org) (President).

I do plan on running another before the end of the year.