Changelog Interviews – Episode #620
Hack Club takes to the High Seas
featuring Acon from Hack Club 🏴☠️
Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that’s incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Welcome to The Changelog | 01:12 |
| 2 | 01:12 | Sponsor: Sentry | 02:00 |
| 3 | 03:11 | Start the show! | 01:51 |
| 4 | 05:03 | Acon at Hack Club | 01:58 |
| 5 | 07:01 | Designing Apocalypse | 01:13 |
| 6 | 08:14 | Finding Hack Club | 01:30 |
| 7 | 09:44 | Bottle cap obsession | 03:42 |
| 8 | 13:26 | Gamification learnings | 05:26 |
| 9 | 18:51 | On gaming | 02:08 |
| 10 | 20:59 | On art | 01:22 |
| 11 | 22:21 | Adapting to the web | 01:17 |
| 12 | 23:38 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 04:30 |
| 13 | 28:08 | High Seas | 03:18 |
| 14 | 31:26 | Prizes! | 03:16 |
| 15 | 34:42 | A trip down memory lane | 01:15 |
| 16 | 35:57 | 4,980 doubloons | 02:40 |
| 17 | 38:36 | Who built this? | 01:37 |
| 18 | 40:13 | Guido & Anders! | 01:48 |
| 19 | 42:01 | FAQs | 00:23 |
| 20 | 42:24 | Sponsor: AssemblyAI | 01:29 |
| 21 | 43:53 | What's next for Acon? | 01:38 |
| 22 | 45:32 | Gap year & beyond | 02:07 |
| 23 | 47:39 | Coming up next (sotl!) | 01:44 |