- How to make the most out of hackathons? Hackathons are also incredible to meet new people, team members, to recruit, friends. I've made lifelong friends at hackathons. - Hackathons have a short and intense format where the end goal is impression. Forming an impression what can be done with a technology, impressing others, coming out impressed by what's possible. Which is also the weakness of hackathons: their relative lack of substance. It's just demoware. Vaporware entails ephemeral. Only 5% of hackathon projects are still active after 6 months. But that is ok!