A social network for flossers. Foursquare for farts. A 3-D printer for dirt.
Over the weekend, MIT Media Lab played host to Comedy Hack Day, a hackathon put on by Cultivated Wit that pairs up comedians with coders to turn hilarious ideas into apps.
After an initial brainstorming session in which a number of ideas are pitched, teams form and are given 24 hours to make their ideas into a reality, then show off their prototypes to a panel of judges. It’s a lot of fun, but is it more than that? The answer, perhaps, is maybe. Here are six lessons any startup can learn from Comedy Hack Day.
