Sign up for @Hackernoon's Proof ofUsefulness Hackathon
Referal Code: SamuelOlamide
Found a hackathon that doesn't care about:
β Pitch deck polish
β Design aesthetics
β Slide presentations
They ONLY care about:
β
Do people actually use it?
$20k cash + $130k credits
@HackerNoon's Proof of Usefulness Hackathon.
I'm partnering with them on this one. Signup with my referral -- SamuelOlamide
proofofusefulness.com/
2025 Wrapped
- Became a graduate - 3.70/4 (Magna Cum Laude)
- Visited Ghana.
- Bought 2 cars -- sold both too.
- Got promoted to VP Product at work.
- Judged UK's TechRound100 competition.
- Won an award for technology and innovation.
- Became a Forbes Council Technology Member.
- Was confused and almost depressed
- Worked out more.
- Sat behind $10m
- Wrote a lot more articles than I have written in my entire life for different platforms.
- Did my first technical workshop (Was fun, should probably do that more often).
- Had failed investments in multiple businesses.
- Had fun.
- Stayed alive.
3rd Jan 2022 was bored and I called @tofmat_ to come teach me how to drive. Drove round campus for like 2hours and decided to buy a car. Bought it on 5th January 2022.
Named her Grace.
@hackernoon featured one of my articles on their podcast today.
A Practical Guide to Scaling Real-Time Video Infrastructure.
Read here ππ½hackernoon.com/a-practical-gβ¦
