# Accountants Should Do Hackathons!

DevFeed: [Accountants Should Do Hackathons!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/accountants-should-do-hackathons-33434.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/07/26/hackathons>)

Published: 2024-07-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tim Kellogg](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tim-kellogg.md>)

Topics: [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>), [Hacking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hacking.md>), [Product Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/product-management.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [ChatGPT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chatgpt.md>)

Tags: [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [hackathons](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathons.md>), [hacking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hacking.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [product-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-management.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that people who understand business problems, including accountants and other non-engineers, should participate in hackathons and build solutions themselves. It presents hacking as problem-solving and argues that rapid experimentation can validate product ideas without requiring formal funding or software-team processes.

## Source excerpt

Everyone should do hackathons! Magic happens when you empower the people with the problems to solve their own problems.