Should Hackathons merge into a more incubator type event

Question

Currently many hackathons have the issue where innovative and highly potent projects are sitting stale after the hackathon. This is because, there is no incentive platform in the hackathon to motivate the hackers to grow their projects. Currently, there is no hackathons that take an incubator approach into the hackathon event itself. Rather, fellowship programs have been initiated by a scarce amount of hackathons to solve this problem in a very mediocre way. Fellowship programs prohibit a larger audience to be given the equal opportunity to grow their revolutionary projects into, what could be, the next startup unicorn.So what I am asking is, should hackathon merge into a more incubator type event (imagine Major League Hacking mixed with Y Combinator).If you have any more questions, email me at thehackventure@gmail.com

kyawzazaw · Accepted Answer

As a student, hackathons in 36, 24 hours have mostly been like field trip to another campus. But cool learning about other companies I didn't know and students I would never meet but I feel like I never really make a good project if I go in without any thought-out idea.Forget learning a new tech well enough to use it.

kyawzazaw · Answer

Also check MLH Fellowships (although that's mostly for contributing to open source).