Of course there are reasons beyond technical ones for including a project in an accelerator cohort. I attempted to view the application to see what types of questions GitHub asked, but they've taken it offline now. On a similar token, one of the other projects is an open source Linktree clone... the MVP of that concept is so simple and there are so many of these projects, that it suggests technical complexity was not a highly weighted factor in the selection process.
That said, I have a few ideas:
- Although it has very little recent activity, it has dozens of contributors, was a Hacktoberfest project, etc.
- There is also often the desire to create diversity in an accelerator cohort. Every accelerators faces pressure for diversifying demographics. This also creates a flywheel effect to improve diversity in future batches.
- Another idea is that perhaps someone saw the potential for this to be turned into a SaaS. Non-technical people need to convert document formats every day. Maybe this does something Pandoc doesn't or that would make it a candidate for that?
That said, I have a few ideas:
- Although it has very little recent activity, it has dozens of contributors, was a Hacktoberfest project, etc.
- There is also often the desire to create diversity in an accelerator cohort. Every accelerators faces pressure for diversifying demographics. This also creates a flywheel effect to improve diversity in future batches.
- Another idea is that perhaps someone saw the potential for this to be turned into a SaaS. Non-technical people need to convert document formats every day. Maybe this does something Pandoc doesn't or that would make it a candidate for that?