Hackathons have been around for a hot while now, but had you ever thought about becoming a millionaire by possibly winning one of them? I'm here to introduce you into the world of Hackathon competitions, a world of prestige, code, and most importantly, reward. 

A lot of the projects that win these competitions are actually alot of the time conducted by teenagers, which means that they're low quality, stale, and don't look professional which makes a lot of sense. The reason adults and professionals don't participate in them is because the skilled adults are too busy working for big tech companies like google, microsoft, binance, coinbase, and so on. The real trick here is that if you were one of these lets say skilled workers, it wouldn't even be worth your time to participate in these projects. You're likely being paid a minimum of 150,000$ a year, and these projects pay upto 40,000$-80,000$ for several months of fulltime work. (Likely with multiple people working as well)

Running hackathons is a very profitable business as whatever you collect from you naive users is entirely yours. This is agreed by all the users when they signup to these sorts of competitions. Even though, it's not like your work is worth millions, I think that whatever they pay you for winning is well worth the value of most of these products. This depends on whether the hackathon is a funding hackathon or a normal hackathon. 

Funding hackathons are like Hackatron hosted by the TRON ecosystem. 

(55 days to go! Why don't you apply?) The tron ecosystem is quite a good ecosystem, infact I'd probably say that it's one of the best ecosystems out there as of today, without comparison to bitcoin ofcourse. The hackatron is quite a cool event in my opinion - the best part is that they don't even buy your product when you make it, which means that all the Intellectual property rights and so fourth are all in your absolute control which is quite cool. This also means that you're expected to turn whatever you build into an actual product that works. In this "hackatron" they actually invest into your project as a venture capital which is super cool, meaning you're given funding for your project and in exchange, ofcourse, they get a percentage of your business which is also quite cool as well. Regardless, If you're a teenager and are looking to become super rich today...I'd probably suggest you get into the business of hackathons and try winning one for yourself. They sometimes award 4th or 5th place winners in order to really widen out their lenses and make sure they've got the most potential for their money which is also super cool. 

in general, hackathons are the way to go for new developers as everything is convenient and available to you at all times. Best part being that it doesn't even matter where in the world you're from. All you need is to know how to code, implement your code and transform it into a working product that wins the competition, and to be fair, you're probably up against the coding club in a few US or UK schools, and sometimes even fully grown adults. 

I plan on entering a hackathon one day and possibly winning..who knows...I might just get 40,000$ in funding to help lift my project off of the ground. P.S 40,000$ is a ton of money...especially for blockchain based products that only need possibly 1,000$ in marketing to get 1000 members as their main userbase. I've got a few budgeting tricks up my sleeve, but I strongly believe that the majority of these projects lack marketing skills which is likely why we don't know about many of them. Hackatron and all their sponsors just tend to pray that one of their investments succeed when in reality they should likely also be looking for mass appeal in some of these projects and a competency in their founders when it comes up to leading a community and most importantly a team of developers. 

That's all the commentary for today. Let me cheer you up with some more images from Hackatron's official website: