> Motivation: […] After spending several hackathons making things like "Uber for dogs with hearing loss"…

A perfectly normal thing to do.

I'd have voted for it as a judge! I stopped participating in hackathons because they became just about integrating sponsor APIs and half-baked start-up ideas based on quarter-baked demos... All entirely corporate and loveless.

This, however, is a return to the weird shit, and I embrace it!