List of hackathons organized by name.com & galvanize platte in 2018

A Hack the Dot is a two-hour hackathon where coding school students, junior developers, experienced developers, non developers, marketers, designers, and those with little or no computer programming skill come together to build ideas around a single domain name. Our events are meant to be a quick and fun way to build a humorous (and functional) product quickly while meeting people in your tech/startup community. There will be pizza. And beer. and soda. What to Bring / How to Prepare: • Bring your laptop and charger. Not required but suggested for you coder types: • Install the Atom text editor. Go here: https://atom.io/ • Setup a github.com account How does it work? Step 1: Attendees are broken up into random teams. Step 2: The teams are provided with the same undisclosed domain name by Name.com, arbitrary and often hilarious. Step 3: Teams have just two hours to come up with a functioning site inspired by that domain. The team builds the most creative and fun idea for the domain wins. Participants will be judged on four criteria: (1) functionality, (2) design, (3) humor, and (4) creative domain name interpretation. What do you get at the event? FOOD! SWAG! FRIENDS! How much does it cost? It’s FREE! Questions? Send them to HacktheDot at name.com.