The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon
Project presentation videos from 2023 are up!
The Boston Stupid Hackathon is a fun, free one-day event where people bring bad ideas to life. Please join us!
When: Saturday May 27, 2023 – 10:15am - 8:30pm ET
Where: CIC 50 Milk St. 1st Floor Boston, MA
Sign Up(we only send a couple emails a year and won't ever share your email)
A "hackathon" is a social event where people come together for a short period of time to make a project, like an app or hardware device. A "stupid shit hackathon" is an event where people come together to make projects that are terrible, useless, horrifying, and probably should have never been made. There are no prizes and definitely no winners. It's really fun.
Come alone or with friends, with ideas or without — we'll make sure your experience is as stupid as possible. And while you don't need to know how to code to participate, coding can help when making software projects.
Here are some things that participants made in previous years:
"I AM BECOME ANIME" by Nicky Case
"Screamy Bird" by Glen
"Tuned a Fish" by Mac and Ted
"The Vape Boy" by Ada and Seth
(No vaping in the venue)
Previous years
2023 projects
2020 projects
2019 projects
2018 projects
2017 projects
or view NY Stupid Hackathon / SF Stupid Hackathon projects
Schedule
Saturday May 27, 2023
10:15am doors open
10:30am kickoff
10:30am - 7:30pm "hacking"
7:30pm - 8:30pm project presentations
Location
50 Milk St. Boston, MA
CIC first floor cafe and event space
(come in the doors and look to the right)
"Inspirational" Project Categories
Software as a Disservice (SaaD)
Buttcoin
Anti-social Media
Psychological projection mapping
Witch apps
Fin-dom technology
Machine learning and machine forgetting
Dogmented reality
Decentralized spider web apps
Covert dev ops
Fireside chat bots
Robots that definitely aren't evil