Don't join Hackathon in China
On Feb 24th, I finish my first time hackthon on Devpost, with other three friends.
On June 24th, I receive an invitation email from AdventureX 2025. On July 28th, I finished the five days hackathon in Hangzhou.
Later, I joined a hackathon launched by Hackathon Weekly, a organization in Shenzhen.
I was excited, passionate, fall in love with these hackathons. I once hope that, in China, there will be more well-organized hackathons there waiting for people to join in. But now, what I wanna say is: Don't join any hackathon in China, and here are why.
Root weak here
Open Source community is weak in China, and due to the network policy, even in code&design, some people still don't know how to use oversea services.
Most of the hackathons in China don't have the enough revenue to run. They seldom have support from Big Tech like Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu or ByteDance, except for those launched by Big Tech. So there is far less hackathons here in China, and is reasonable why the hackathons in China is poor and low-quality: it just hard to launch new one.
Hasty is evil
Maybe this is not a special one in China, the hackathon oversea is also. But I still wanna say: lots of people are hasty here.
When I join in AdventureX 2025, you could hear at least five people here are drop out, or just don't care school work, just for join hackahton or embrace innovation. Everyone seems want to be next Elon, Jobs, Gates, want to build something great, but hardly sit for a single thing to do.