do people actually code in a hackathon?
im in my freshman year of college and have participated in multiple hacks but my team has only once been able to qualify for the 2nd round. here in india we first have a ppt submission online round and the selected teams qualify for the 2nd round be it a mentorship or the final pitching round. the one time we got selected, the 2nd round was on the day of our exam so we couldnt go and it was p complicated too so didnt make much of a diff. just wanted to ask, do people actually code by themselves in these hacks?
what we do is js take up an idea and do the prototype generation either by loveable or claude. we do know coding languages but not to the extent that we build actual apps solely by our own knowledge. the seniors here at my clg are p secretive ig? and not of much help? more or less, we dont know where we go wrong. do we participate in this stuff only once we are masters of our domain? backend/frontend/ etc.
i mean its been a year and we still havent been able to figure it out. we feel p dumb atp 😭
jsyk chatgpt says most code by themselves and its terrifying :)