🏆Winning Idea?

Well..

The idea you choose for a hackathon can make all the difference between winning and just participating. We have gathered you great tips from our friend Kash's podcast from Superteam:

• Look for problems, not buzzwords:

  • Buzzwords: Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, Hyperautomation, Quantum Computing.

  • Problems: Payments, DeFi, Community, Developer Tooling, User Onboarding.

• Is the solution significantly better with adding crypto or would it be better without it?

  • Build something that would make sense because of crypto.

• Is it a net positive to the ecosystem? Will it bring more users/liquidity?

  • Don't focus on building something assuming there are tons of users ready to use it, rather build something of use case right here and now.

• Look for Solana-specific ideas:

  • "You get instant points if you've built something that can only be built on Solana, that others chains couldn't handle" - Co-Founder @Helius.

  • Build something that benefits from Solana's unique characteristics, such as transactions speed, composability and ascending markets use cases.

• Make a functional UI:

  • It doesn't not have to be beautiful, just construct something practical, something that judges can feel, that is better to look at than an API.

• Spend more than 20% of your time on your presentation:

  • People do not look at your code first.

  • Make your presentation interesting.

  • Try to include a demo video.

Lastly, build something cool..