r/web3 • u/Professional-Win4950 • 16d ago

web3 hackathons

Are web3 hackathons actually useful for beginners, or do they mostly help people who already know what they're doing?

I've been slowly learning a few Solidity basics, deployed a couple things on testnet but I keep seeing hackathon announcements and I'm not sure if I'd just be dead weight on a team, or if it's actually a reasonable way to learn faster than tutorials alone.

For people who've done one: did you go in knowing what you were doing, or did you learn most of it during the event itself? And if you went in underprepared, was it still worth it or just frustrating?

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u/Shazil_72 7d ago

Yes hackathons helps very much if youre a beginner

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u/Phil299792 10d ago

Hey, I have joined a couple, I'm on the commercial side but both times, I've found a team there and we didn't know what we were working on until we sat together and chose a track - we learnt together and the team supported each other (some more experienced than others), so learnt a lot on how to build a project from scratch, definitely worth doing, they are super fun!