🤔 From judging hackathons, it’s clear there’s still huge value: builders show up, meet, ship, and create. ⚠️ The problem is that teams are optimizing for prizes, so developers end up jamming in the top three sponsors instead of pushing Ethereum forward. 🙇‍♂️ What if we tried a different model? 👀 Something like long-running (somehow not sponsored?) hackathons where you might start with quick experiments, but the expectation is to put something onchain and get real users? 🎤 Allow for idea-guy pitch sessions 👬 Speed dating team formations or small trial builds 🤓 Helpful industry mentors that give feedback and teach you how to get serious about an idea 🥸 I guess this is basically like existing hackathons without the sponsors and longer running... which would be hard and expensive...