HackaTRON S7 - Community Voting Has Begun!

[hermione]

Great to see Voting has started. Anyone would like to list down their favourite projects in different categories?

[LuisMiguel86]

I guess @Nana66419 is not in forum anymore. I didn’t see him for a while

[HODL]

It is understandable that you are frustrated. As I said before your submission is missing clear test instruction that is my observation. It is part of the hackaTRON submission format. You were still eligible for the bonus prize.
Some projects did not qualify in the previous season and continued to build their projects and now are in the top.
@sidh1999 @harshpoddar03 you guys should have some patience to wait for a reply from the admins. You are simply choosing to blame the community and management for your own lack of attention to detail.

With every season we are trying to improve with the feedbacks and suggestions. We may have brief reasons for rejected projects from next season.

@sidh1999

Most important part of hack is feedback even more than winning the whole event but I felt it was missing

You are not even taking the feedback of the community here. If you did you would continue to build instead of deleting your project.

You should have waited for admins to reply if you were real competent about your project. It seems to you yourself know something is wrong. Now just want to make it look like it is the admins and communities fault.

[Prince-Onscolo]

Hope for disqualified projects

It Is Not Over For Disqualified Projects - Keep Building

Gm tronics, I wake up this morning to see so many comments from some disqualified project team members. Please understand these are part of the game. Your participation in the HackaTron does not guaranteed automatic qualification. Usually l, reason(s) why a project get disqualified are not published here but some admins MAY give you a clue in dm (Not guaranteed). The common reason may be “No blockchain integration” or “project not solving any problem” or poor presentation. (my own opinion) Wh…

[TedP9]

It’s been almost a year, I’m back just in time
I wish all teams good luck during this week.

[monster]

Congratulations to everyone who made it to voting!

[H_P]

We are not better than @manfred_jr, @Prince-Onscolo, @Gordian & many more active members who have been active in all last seasons.

Keep up with the great engagement, I wish the community contributors price is atleast doubled next season for such an active engagement.

[H_P]

Ohh did not know about the IRL problems, will drop him a DM. Thanks.

[zohaib12]

Best of luck to all selected projects. Keep building keep shining

[btSQL]

Hello Community, we are elated to be a part of the qualified projects and excited to enter the voting phase in integration track.

Please try out our project and don’t forget to cast your votes for us at - #I8: btSQL | Decentralised database on BTFS

Nevertheless, our work on javascript sdk is almost complete and will be releasing by tomorrow. Keep sharing your feedback, back to BUIDLING

[arman]

thank you so much @manfred_jr, you have been supporting our projects day one and i really admire that about you. thank you so much

[arman]

I remember @Nana66419 , he used to be an OG in the forum and most active member. hope to see him back soon on the forum.

[braden]

Wishing success to every selected project!

[binulaj]

Great builders all the best

[arman]

Hey @TedP9, welcome back to the forum – great to see you here!

If you’re exploring innovative projects, you might find RentHub interesting in integration track . It’s a BTFS-powered storage solution, similar to Pinata. Feel free to check out more details on our website.

thank you

[sidh1999]

@HODL

It is understandable that you are frustrated. As I said before your submission is missing clear test instruction that is my observation. It is part of the hackaTRON submission format. You were still eligible for the bonus prize.

Thanks for the feedback, and appreciate the community but wont be able to align with you on other parts today. Yes I was disappointed before but frustrated now, not because we weren’t selected or something but the general pattern I observed. Excluding us there were many really good projects that we were rooting for or thought as competition, but most were disqualified. I had even tested some of them and they were working fine and also met all criteria.

Not pointing out but many of the selected projects were repeaters or had 30 lines of smart contract and if you check the transaction logs, the contracts weren’t even used or tested. If you are a honest community, tell me, what is more important in a blockchain hackathon, testing a UI (this is relevant and has it own place) or the smart contracts itself. If you look closely tronscan is one of the best explorers and does provide a UI to test contract. but not a single transaction in 19 days. That simply means the contracts weren’t even tested.

@HODL

Some projects did not qualify in the previous season and continued to build their projects and now are in the top.

I strongly believe that a project should mature in x timeframe, for me/my projects its 6 months and then should look for Croud/VC/Accelerator funding. Hackathons are not a place to earn but rather than support the new commers and promote new projects. Was refreshing to see there was a builder track to support older projects and could have acted as an accelerator but it leaves sour taste when many 3~5 years old projects join the same hackathon every year and get selected in other tracks. Its just not a level field and leaves much to be desired. No matter what changes or modifications you did, the project owners should act as mentors to newcomers similar to how they were supported when they started rather than competing.

Maybe I am wrong and the maybe the community philosophy is different. But I will not be able to align with it.

The most disappointing thing, for me was that projects were not even tested by organizers. Its one thing being disqualified due to quality of build but completely different for missing some formatting. About the feedback you gave us, already had provided lots of testing instructions and also much simplified instructions in replies, we went as far as saying if anyone wanted to test the application, they could just ask and we would start the instance for them for x time or even can setup call.

We also provided a video demo for the project, we used Vimeo and looking at the analytics the video wasn’t viewed in the last 12 days. Its so sad the see that it barely took a glance to judge if a project should be qualified or not. Its honestly disheartening when you put so much effort in understanding the stacks and building something, and it takes just few seconds to disqualify without any explanation. I could have understood if it was just us but what about rest of the 50% projects. If you can’t respect the devs and their work, what kind of community you have. Again not saying all members are like or just dissing anyone but this does demand a deeper thought

@HODL

You are not even taking the feedback of the community here. If you did you would continue to build instead of deleting your project.

Oh there were many hard feedback on our project, some constructive and some very offensive as well. But we took all of them as feedbacks and worked on it, we also did not have answers to some like the optimization and gas fee questions and did not shy away from admitting the same.

@HODL

You should have waited for admins to reply if you were real competent about your project. It seems to you yourself know something is wrong. Now just want to make it look like it is the admins and communities fault.

About deleting the project, it was my way of showing non alignment and also saying I would not like to be considered for this hack-a-thon any longer(not even for future events). about there being something wrong, there are 19 forks of the project done by other devs. If there is something wrong with the project everyone would have known by now. And if the admins know something they can kindly let us know as well, which is all that we were asking from the start. I am not sure if I am able to get the message across, I care little about the selection but much more about WHY! This is also one of the primary reasons for deleting the project, I would not like to be considered for the bonus events and by doing this closing all my doors for future events as community remembers. I am also well aware that people will be taking personal digs about me deleting the project but sure you can make fun of the project, call me childish & not professional and a have laugh at my expense.

I have done wating and not expecting for answers anymore. Wont be an eye sore in the community anymore and wont be replying.

All I can say is congrats to all selected projects, and best of luck for voting. Would recommend the community to actually test the projects or at least the contracts on tronscan, would be more constructive for the devs as well.

[Hem1i]

dude calm down, you were still eligible for bonus prizes. You lost ur chance now

[ines_valerie]

I only hear plenty good things about @Nana66419 I am already thinking he is a very great guy.

[BahaKoc1x]

@Nana66419

[HODL]

@sidh1999

Yes I was disappointed before but frustrated now, not because we weren’t selected or something but the general pattern I observed. Excluding us there were many really good projects that we were rooting for or thought as competition, but most were disqualified. I had even tested some of them and they were working fine and also met all criteria.

Clearly if you were selected you would not bother to talk about rejected projects here. Anyway just testing the projects is not a criteria here. Participants are expected to fulfil all the other requirements. And like I said before projects who are not selected here know well the reason behind it. If not we all can help each other understand it better. Even some projects participating 2nd 3rd time in builders category did not make it.

@sidh1999

If you are a honest community, tell me, what is more important in a blockchain hackathon, testing a UI (this is relevant and has it own place) or the smart contracts itself.

If you are a developer then you should know better not all web3 projects require smart contracts.

@sidh1999

Hackathons are not a place to earn but rather than support the new commers and promote new projects.

This is major purpose of this hackathon. But your actions are not matching your words. If it was not about the money for you then you would not have deleted your project here and continued building.

@sidh1999

About the feedback you gave us, already had provided lots of testing instructions and also much simplified instructions in replies, we went as far as saying if anyone wanted to test the application, they could just ask and we would start the instance for them for x time or even can setup call.

My observation for your submission is missing test instructions. Not all members will go through the comments. That is why we have format for submissions which clearly has a seprate section for test instructions.

@sidh1999

We also provided a video demo for the project, we used Vimeo and looking at the analytics the video wasn’t viewed in the last 12 days.

I watched your demo last night on forum. Maybe vimo do not show those analytics.

@sidh1999

But we took all of them as feedbacks and worked on it, we also did not have answers to some like the optimization and gas fee questions and did not shy away from admitting the same.

After being rejected you have not taken a single suggestion here.

@sidh1999

About deleting the project, it was my way of showing non alignment and also saying I would not like to be considered for this hack-a-thon any longer(not even for future events).

That is upto you but it seems very childish behavior to me.

@sidh1999

about there being something wrong, there are 19 forks of the project done by other devs. If there is something wrong with the project everyone would have known by now.

I am sure all your codes must be fine. I am talking about the requirements for the hackaTRON.

@sidh1999

if the admins know something they can kindly let us know as well, which is all that we were asking from the start.

Yes this is what you are asking for but you have no patience at all. Cant you even wait for a day for the team to reply? Not like you are goin to get one now.

@sidh1999

Would recommend the community to actually test the projects or at least the contracts on tronscan, would be more constructive for the devs as well.

Would recommend developers to provide clear instructions in your submissions which is hackaTRON requirement.