1. What’s a hackathon Hackathon’s meaning is partially incuded in it’s name, hack + marathon, marathon of “hacking”. It’s an event where large ammounts of developers/IT/design/management/etc experts meet together to work on a projects with the goal of finishing it in planned hackathon lenght (usually 24-72hrs). Those projects tend to have a theme selected by hackathon organizers, however the exact project ideas come from participants. Is it, like, even popular?