Hackathons on Rails
summary
Has run about 80 hackathons and organizes BattleHack series with regional winners flown to San Jose for a $100,000 final; builds the event stack as a Rails CMS with integrated ticketing, check‑in and hack submission analytics, uses Slack-login-as-invite to avoid a custom invite system, and ships a one‑command deploy called Doku-fire deploy tool. Shows concrete hacks: an Arduino+Raspberry Pi PayPal shock device, a winners’ DropLock that photos thieves to Dropbox, and measured language popularity and per-tag ratings to guide event decisions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to hackathons
- 2:38Ruby and Rails history
- 7:55Early Rails struggles
- 11:49Starting a company with hackathons
- 13:13Organizing Battle Hack
- 18:17Building internal tools
- 21:27Login with Slack
- 23:33Code of conduct for hackathons
- 25:20Dokku Fire and tooling
- 26:46Hackathon statistics
- 30:17Ruby love story
- 31:02Q&A on hackathon goals
