Three Days on the Startup Bus

Nice article. I had a good time.<p>Here are some pearls from it:<p>&gt; Nothing useful is ever created at a hackathon.<p>&gt; sometimes “entrepreneur” means “runs a successful company” and sometimes it means “more ideas than money.”<p>&gt; Eddie [...] dresses exclusively in free t-shirts from tech events. [...] his job is to go around the country attending hackathons, throwing pizza parties, and handing out t-shirts to developers to convince them to use SendGrid.<p>Reads exactly like the hackathons I&#x27;ve attended.

&quot;There’s even a term for the useless software that people make: vaporware. The idea is that it’s created, and then it evaporates because nobody works on the project after the hackathon (despite everyone’s best intentions).&quot;<p>Has anyone ever heard this definition of vaporware before?

Really enjoyed the article. Wonder if she sold the Pizza app to Dominos or something. Code it in their stack for easy integration, pitch common use case, and boom. Who knows.<p>On the overall thing, I&#x27;ve always suspected these were more a giant party than anything useful. The reason is that good things usually take time and quality thought to put together. Sleep can work wonders, too. Wish I was in Nashville for this event as it would&#x27;ve been fun talking to the Startup Bus crowd.

If twisty mountain roads work &quot;magic&quot; for the Startup Bus, maybe it is time for the Start Up Vomit Comet. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reduced_gravity_aircraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reduced_gravity_aircraft</a>)

Is that primary image from a gaming event, and not a hackathon?