There are tools that participants can review and use to prepare for Hackathon.
Software
To make your website *if you don’t have the web ninja:
To make an app *if you don’t have a developer:
To make nice presentations *if you don’t have a designer:
- Unsplash: beautiful, high-res freely-usable images
- Noun Project & Icons8: free icons for everything
- Ouch & FreePik: free vector Illustrations
- Undraw, Opendoodles, Illustrations.co: open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create
- Artboard.Studio: create mockups online
- Genial: create visual stories and generate amazing communication experiences
Additional Design & Deck Resources:
- Canva: incredibly simple graphic design for everyone
- Powtoon: to make videos and presentations
- HiSlide: free library of beautiful Google Slides templates
- TinyTake: screen recording
Other tools and services that might come in handy during the weekend:
- CRM: Hubspot
- Market Research: Think with Google, AYTM
- Keyword Research: Google Keywords, Wordtracker
- Legal: SmartUp, legalzoom, RocketLawyer, UpCounsel
- Videos/Presentations: Prezi, Google Slides
- Automation: Zapier, Integromat
- Finances: Expensify
- Communities/Local Events: Eventbrite, Meetup
- Women Focus: Women 2.0, Girls in Tech
- Design/UI Tools: Whimsical, Lucid Chart, Miro
- Dev Tools: Google App Maker, Aptana, Google Chrome
- Email Integration: Sendgrid
- Domains: GoDaddy Registry, Google Domains
- Hosting: Heroku, Github
- Educational: Codecademy, Udacity, Appsumo
- Task/Project Management: Asana, Podio, Todoist, Trello
- Mailing lists/groups: Google Groups
- Forms/Surveys: Google Forms, Survey Monkey
- Personal Storage: Dropbox, Google Drive
- Social Media/Marketing: Unbounce, Google Analytics
- Social sharing: Add This, ShareThis
- Ad Promotion: Google Ads, Linkedin Ads, Facebook Ads
- Startup Promotion: Untorch
- Business Cards: Moo.com
- Email Marketing: Mailchimp, iContact
After the Hackathon
Keep the momentum going by making use of partner and sponsor perks and professional development tools listed above. We also recommend the following resources and reading materials:
- Lean Canvas
- Value Proposition Canvas
- How to Start a Startup
- Hook Methodology
- Why Startups Fail
- 4 Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
- Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg
- Hooked, Nir Eyal
- Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
Other tools
Techstars Entrepreneur’s Tookit
Techstars Entrepreneurs Toolkit is a great online resource for founders at all stages.
