Great... Untill you try it
I don’t want to say this is a bad experience for everyone, but if you’re like me, you might want to look elsewhere. I signed up for the No-Code Hackathon after hearing about it at school. After reading everything on their website, I decided to give it a try.
Here's what they don’t make clear. While you get a broad theme like “Mental Health and Wellbeing”, which would be totally fine and give you creative freedom , once you split into teams, you’re assigned a very specific project, such as a “Nature Noises Sharing App.” So instead of exploring ideas, you’re just restriced, with no real creativity involved.
Right, so you’d probably expect to build the project yourself… but that’s not the case. The hackathon uses AI to do the work, meaning participants don’t actually create much manually. A full day is spent on a project that you don’t really do yourself.
I strongly recommend researching what you’re signing up for. Their website only mentions AI, “Whether you're passionate about healthcare, climate change, education or the future of AI – you'll get a chance to show how technology can change lives!” It doesn’t actually that AI will do the bulk of the work. Googling “Vibe Coding” helps understand it better.
This might work for some people, but for me, there wasn’t any hands-on work or real creativity. The only positive was a little bit of teamwork. Be careful if you’re considering it, especially since their refund policy isn’t great. Waste of time and Money.
9 november 2025
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