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My biggest complaint about hackathons is if the hackathon is actually judged as a business pitch-a-thon, and that part wasn't clear at the beginning.

Isn't that what a hack-a-thon is all about?

Apart from his pun-a-thon books, most of his Discworld novels have some sort of moral underpinning.

Another commenter hit the nail on the head when they called it a business-a-thon.

Before Rebecca passed, her older sister Carolyn requested help [1] to raise money for childhood cancer research by participating in a shave-a-thon.

We need more 'hack' and less 'thon' Too many hackathons try to motivate people with incentives, but that creates winners and disappointed people.

This weekend is apparently the second annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon.

More than 1000 high schoolers attended this hack-a-thon at PayPal HQ.

That exists, it seems to be a popular civic hack-a-thon project[1].

What you're describing is as perfectly valid '-thon' but it's not, at least in my mind and the mind of the author, a good hack athon.

I guess they wanted something that'd be easily digestible for a Netflix-style monthly shame-a-thon.

Don't get me wrong, there's certainly a place for pitch-a-thon events but that's what they are -- create a 'kick-ass concept' -- not about technical hacking, and don't make that mistake.

For example a female only code-a-thon, is "OK" but a male code-a-thon would outrageous.

To be fair, SW is meant to be a "Business-A-Thon" and not a hackathon in the traditional sense.

I've done Startup Weekend once before and it felt like how the "The Business-A-Thon" was described.

> To be fair, SW is meant to be a "Business-A-Thon" and not a hackathon in the traditional sense.