The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon

Project presentation videos from 2020 are up!

The Boston Stupid Hackathon is a fun, free one-day event where people bring bad ideas to life. Please join us!

When: Saturday May 2, 2020 – 10:30am - 9pm ET

Where: VIRTUAL (details)

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A "hackathon" is a social event where people come together for a short period of time to make a project, like an app or hardware device. A "stupid shit hackathon" is an event where people come together to make projects that are terrible, useless, horrifying, and probably should have never been made. There are no prizes and definitely no winners. It's really fun.

Come alone or with friends, with ideas or without — we'll make sure your experience is as stupid as possible. And while you don't need to know how to code to participate, coding can help when making software projects.

Here are some things that participants made in previous years:

"I AM BECOME ANIME" by Nicky Case

"Screamy Bird" by Glen

"Tuned a Fish" by Mac and Ted

"The Vape Boy" by Ada and Seth

(No vaping in the venue)

Previous years

2019 projects

2018 projects

2017 projects

or view NY Stupid Hackathon / SF Stupid Hackathon projects

Schedule

Saturday May 2, 2020

10:15am doors open

10:30am kickoff

10:30am - 8pm "hacking"

8pm - 9pm project presentations

Location

internet

"Inspirational" Project Categories

Software as a Disservice (SaaD)

Buttcoin

Internet of Terrible Things

Anti-social Media

"Government 2.0"

Psychological projection mapping

Witch apps

Fin-dom technology

Machine learning and machine forgetting

Dogmented reality

Decentralized spider web apps

Covert dev ops

Fireside chat bots

Robots that definitely aren't evil

See the event's Code of Conduct

Contact the organizers: bostonstupidhackathon@gmail.com

Inspired by the SF Stupid Hackathon and the original NY Stupid Hackathon.

Thanks to Alison Malouf for the amazing cyber kale woman drinking juice in space image.

Organized by Glen Chiacchieri