Hacking At Y-Combinator Without Code Y-Combinator hosts a 24-hour hackathon, where top developers are given plenty of caffein associates in nursing an open mandate to code something new and viable. The winning team is offered an interview for a spot in the upcoming cohort of the famed accelerator program, that has kicked-started successes like Airbnb and dropbox. The hackathon format has become common, but for YC it aligns with its primary philosophy: “founders are most