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Running a software jam in a world of slop

https://foxmoss.com/blog/radish/
21•foxmoss•7h ago
I'm Fox. I'm a 16 year old, and I've been working mostly working on making projects I thought were cool & would do well on the internet over the last year. You can check out my other blog posts if you want to get a sense of what that means: <https://foxmoss.com/blog>.

Hack Club noticed these projects and thought I would be well suited to run an event. This was my reaction, I wanted to make something that could encourage the same competition as well the feedback I get from places like HN and appreciate well made projects. Hack Club does a good job at throwing money at people who make projects, but a iffy job at rewarding hard work. I wanted to change that. Radish Jam <https://radish.hackclub.com/> was my reaction to that, and this blog post goes through my thought processes in logistics. How something similar could be run again either by another Hack Clubber or an adult looking to run something for similar for adults :)

Comments

bediger4000•4h ago
Why editorialize the link title with "I'm 15 and I..."?

Is there some weird SEO superstition that being a child prodigy helps HN posts

Lots of other "I'm 15" (or 16, 17, 18) HN posts are pretty obviously spam or AI slop. Im' 65, and I'm immediately suspicious and biased against such titles.

dang•1h ago
This is a perennially off topic thing that people complain about - let's not go there. When I look at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=foxmoss I see highly technical submissions that make no mention of age.

I've taken that bit out of the title now though - it's enough (and completely fine) to mention it in the text.

LoganDark•17m ago
The website https://radish.hackclub.com reliably crashes my Safari so repeatedly that I simply cannot view the website whatsoever.
krisoft•12m ago
> So the obvious model of a program run with this funding scheme acts like a hip and cool job.

The kind of jobs where you have to install spyware to track how long you were typing are the lamest. Not the coolest.

> To maximize efficiency in running programs, every Hack Club program gets $8.5 per hour to spend on prizes

That is your problem. The funding organisation has braindead funding rules which does not match with how you can run a succesfull software jam.

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