Have you ever had a chance to attend a hackathon?

Well, if you never heard about it — let me tell you about the perspective from me — a business/marketing guy. It’s a first hackathon I’ve ever attended. It’s organized by The8760 Crew. While the whole team wanted to join the hackathon only 3 members could attend it— Augustas, Darius & me. The hackathon was based in Kiev during the Connect Ukraine Fest.

Entrance to the Loft where Hackathon was organized.

Day 1. First impressions. Everybody works.

It was difficult to get into the building than go through the airport security. Had to cross the metal detectors and let security check your bag. No booze, no guns, no knives.

Go get your bracelet there!

Thankful to the security, you could almost feel safe by leaving your bag unattended. When I say almost — we quickly got informed that stuff could disappear and we soon found.

We got here a little earlier, but the scheduled hackathon hasn’t started for the next hour.

Overall, atmosphere was great. Had a chance to talk with a feel people — mostly business guys: either sponsors and talent scouts.

The situation from the dev side was very productive. Everyone who gets here immediately finds himself/herself a table with a laptop open. It’s kind of seemed weird to me. No small talks, no hi’s — got here to work.

Further down, the official night started. Teams presented their ideas in Ukrainian & a little bit in Russian.

I don’t understand either.

Shout out to one team who spoke in English and shared idea about building a bread coin — buy a bread with bitcoin. But… Xapo? Anyway, best of luck to them.

One team wanted to create an ICO over the weekend. That’s a stretch, wonder how it’s going for them.

Day 2. First smart contracts? Check!

This is when things heated up. Although outside was pouring most of the time.

Since it’s Kiev, the security was very strict and didn’t want to let us in. Even if we had the special wristbands. That meant nothing to them.