Author Jon Gottfried

You walk into your hackathon this weekend and are handed a business card from MLH and AWS with a URL on it. You head to the URL, fill out the form, and a magic $100 promo credit appears in your inbox to use on...

Four years ago today, my friend John Britton dragged me to my first hackathon. It changed my life in ways I never could have imagined. For those of you who started attending hackathons more recently, it is...

Back in September we announced a partnership with the Thiel Fellowship to recognize extraordinary newcomers in the Major League Hacking community. We had more than 10,000 new hackers join us at MLH events...

Ahoy hackers! When you hit up as many hackathons as we have, you begin to see some pretty clear trends in the kinds of hacks being produced. For some reason or another, hackers tend to rally around a few...

Ahoy hackers! Jon and Swift here. From this week on out, we are going to do a post a week about stuff we see at hackathons and in the hackathon community. This weekly column will give us the opportunity...

Today we are extremely excited to announce that Dell will be joining the Fall 2014 season as Major League Hacking’s presenting partner.   Over the last few months, we've been working closely with our...

We've seen how hackathons change lives. And students tell us: they blog, they post, they tweet, and they scream at the tops of their lungs about it from dorm rooms. Unfortunately, if we only sung the...

We are extremely excited to launch our Hacker Survey. Many of you have received e-mailsfrom us asking you to take this survey, but you might be asking yourself ‘Why should I?’ Take the Survey Aside...

Picking a winner is tough. Especially as hackathons get bigger, the decisions must be made quickly, and selecting the ‘best’ project is always subjective. How you design the last chapter of your...

Prizes have been a hackathon staple for many years now, but this was not always the case.Originally, hackathons offered a way to build community and garner respect. No prizes necessary. As hackathons have...