Stupid Hack — where making no sense makes all the sense.
Stupid ideas + fearless experimentation = magic 🧙♂️
“What a great idea! This is definitely feasible for business!”, said no one ever at a Stupid Hack.
Usually for hackathons you need a good idea and a good technical execution of it. For Stupid Hack, all you need is an idea. It doesn’t even have to be good or anything — on the upside, the stupider the idea, the better chance it has to win the hackathon.
This is the fifth time Junction is organizing a Stupid Hack and the second time it’s organized online. Originally the event has gathered participants from various backgrounds to hack in Otaniemi, but as the event has now been turned online, participants come from all around the world.
Last year, there were about 150 participants and people attended the event from e.g. Russia, USA, Poland and South Korea. We saw some awesome projects, including the winning project CLIT (= a command-line interface for tinder) and laskin.live (a powerful calculator for solving hard math problems as 1 111 + 1 111 = 2 222).
The good thing about Stupid Hack is that the only criteria for winning is stupidness. There’s a low threshold to try new things and learn (while having a really, really fun time), which also makes it a great first hackathon to try out (code wizards are warmly welcome, though).
Whether a developer, a designer or an aspiring hacker from whatever-background with crazy, stupid or crazy-stupid ideas and an itch for experimentation, we welcome you to join the most ridiculous hackathon ever held to date.
Be stupid with us! 🤪
What: Stupid Hack 2021
When: 7.-8.5.
Where: Online
How to apply: https://app.hackjunction.com/events/stupid-hack-2021/
Things you don’t need to attend StUPId HacK:
🙅️️ Previous hackathon experience
🙅️ Years of coding experience
Things you need to attend STUPid hACk:
🙆♀️ An apparatus for interweb access
🙆♀️ A stupid idea you want to turn into reality-ish
There’s no evaluation criteria, there’s only one (1) evaluation criterion: the stupider the project is, the better. There’s zero (0) pressure about a thing.
You can join Stupid Hack by yourself or with a team.
