Preparing for a Hackathon: Choosing Your Platform

One of the best things you can do during your hackathon presentation is to have your hack available on a publicly accessible platform. You can definitely just host your app on your local machine for the demo, but it is more powerful and impressive if you can involve everyone else in the room and get them to play with your hack during the demo.

Note: I’m a Ruby developer, and my framework of choice during hackathons is Ruby on Rails, so my suggestions here will be biased accordingly. YMMV.

This is part two of a three-part series I’m writing about hackathons. Check out Part 1 if you haven’t read it yet.