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darph
@darph
Are designers meant to be in hackathons?
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@baseddesigner.eth
What hackathons are currently, mostly aren’t meant. But looking forward, exactly who hackathons need more of and calling shots in the projects. That piggy wallet is a great example, barely any dev, most stuff is hardcoded and the rest barely functioning. Just need to put something on chain to show that metamask pop up for everyone to go wow. And then do it for the cause like for argentinian kids. Present figma prototype as a demo because going through the live app would be horrific. https://piggy-wallet-nextjs.vercel.app
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So 2 different approaches and designers don’t belong in the first but are ruling in the second My team was a great indication of it too - devs came up with an idea that wasn’t really impactful, done multiple hooks and chain integrations for the sake of winning bounties, ended up getting nothing What piggy wallet did, whatever chain they’d use on the back - they’d win it.
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also some winning solutions were super dev focused, like building on top of existing stuff to add an additional fitting feature like that metamask community notes, super specific and lacks any design thinking, putting onchain transactions for the sake of it and decentralization for the sake of it and not helping solve the problem in the best or even decent way
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darph
@darph
From most of the answers there, the short answer is that designers are not meant for hackathons. I love your take, and I really hope that the ecosystem can change for web3, but since their appearance (we're talking 1999), hackathons have always been dev-centric, even if tracks can change this.
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marcuspang
@marcuspang
Hey I really appreciate your take, I was the main dev for piggy wallet and the stuff we wanted to show on the stage was definitely far from planned. In hindsight, I shouldve just created dummy pages to show the onchain interactions, and I totally understand why people aren't satisfied with the "demo"
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Love your candid response.... High time
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