We're running a one-day AI hackathon in Madrid on Saturday Sept 12. Deliberately small: 20 curated spots, engineers and founders, individual format, something working by the end of the day. Then food and beers while people demo.
The plan is to repeat it every month or so, so I care more about getting the format right than about this one edition.
Two things I keep going back and forth on:
Individual vs teams. Individual means everyone ships something and nobody hides. Teams mean more ambitious projects but a worse experience for whoever gets the bad group. I've landed on individual for a one-day format, but I'm not sure.
Hi makers! As we are approaching the launch, I am busy planning out how do we work with beta users first. I thought it would be nice to make a chat for people participating in beta so we can quickly respond and also people can connect with each other (maybe it can be the starting point of our community, who knows). Right now I have two options at hand: Slack and Discord. Seems like everyone has Slack installed, but it is heavily associated with work. Looks like Discord is a more friendly, but I'm not sure if our audience uses it that much. What do you guys think? Does anyone have experience of setting up a chat for beta users?
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