Had a wonderful team at #HealthHack in #brunswick that got a lot of stuff done. Super awesome location. Nice team.
Would not recommend again.
Why?
They had to make it a competition.
3rd prize was a startup that got funding for the idea already, they seemed to not have attracted people to join them. Did do jack. Nothing done in a weekend, but got a prize.
Sorry but that sucks.
Too make matters worse
Second prize went for a #24ghz #mmwave radar that two dudes brought along from their employer it is used in traffic control.
Idea: to use it for sleep problem detection
So they got applauded and especially highlighted that they transferred tech from traffic to health.
Only, it sounded familiar. I thought ti.com had it as reference implementation
https://www.seeedstudio.com/24GHz-mmWave-Radar-Sensor-Sleep-Breathing-Monitoring-Module-p-5304.html
They only plotted distance and said you can see if movement and unhealthy sleep
The MR24BSD1 24GHz radar module applies Dopplor detected theory to implement human sleep quality monitoring providing a fully total private and secure sensing environment, independently from other noisy influences. It is a useful privacy-protected, secure sensor radar systems in smart home applications like sleep safety alarm, sleep respiratory detection.
So if you organize a hackathon and give away prizes to no work and a reference implementation then fuck off.
You lost all respect.
You might want to look up what a #hackathon might mean
And yes, picking and inviting an jury that is absolutely clueless is part of that.
You fuck over all other teams.
We asked for feedback after ceremony.
They thought we came with a ready Prototyp and did jack shit.
They were not impressed because of some problems in the prototype that were due to improvising.
And another feedback: it looked to professionally. So it must be premade. So Basicly we were disqualified for creating a product in an ok quality.
Getting shit done was not wanted. An app, an ml model, and a hardware prototype were hacked together.
So really, I don't think we should have won, because other teams were cool too.
But outright loosing against a 900euro traffic control Sensor w/o any app that does detection(ffs it should have been trivial to add) and being able to buy the sensor for 30ish quid from seed with a description 1:1 being their pitch speaks for itself.
And a team not doing work, which has funding and just wants to do networking? Nice guys, can't blame them. But handing them out a symbolic sum and give them third?
Congrats to the first prize winners.
I am not sure I would have put them first, but they deserved to win and I think their ranking in the top 3 was well deserved.
Others tacklinge hard problems have delivered awesome results too.
Kudos to them, I would have loved to see them in top 3 as well.
And if you ever organize a hackathon: take note what was done prior and ask for the diff. Or some attention seekers will game it to get reputation w/o doing actual work sooner or later.
…might work for coffee…
Moanos