Can you provide a brief introduction about yourself and your background in fintech?
I’m newer to fintech. I’ve spent most of my life as a buyer for consumer brands while moonlighting and dabbling in side projects and coding. My hackathon partner worked at a major payment processing company for a long time. We’ve always had ideas and hacks for customer issues that come up on his side as a developer and paired them with my consumer experience. We currently run a start-up together called Payable Apps, which creates add-ons for programs and software that don’t traditionally accept payments.
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What initially motivated you to participate in hackathons, and how did you become interested in fintech-focused competitions?
The first hackathon we entered was both fintech and Formula 1 themed, which are two of our favorite things. We had been working on our app, and we thought it would be cool to get to an MVP and enter the hackathon to test the desirability of the idea. It worked well, so now we often use hackathons to build and test ideas that we are still figuring out.
Now we often use hackathons to build and test ideas that we are still figuring out.
Can you walk us through your pre-hackathon preparation process?