After participating (and winning) several hackathons over the years, I’ve come to appreciate how nicely Rails generates prototypes that build and deploy quickly. Hackathon champions will assert that the secret sauce to winning hackathons is building an actual product that has real validation from potential users. This is a hard goal to achieve when everyone is short on sleep and time. Rails will get your app there.

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