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Win a Battle Axe and $3,000 in Wufoo's API Contest
- dhechler 16y agoThis needs to be featured. It's a great contest.
- dhechler 16y agoAgain, feature this!
- unfoldedorigami 16y agoIf you like to program and own medieval weaponry, this one's for you. Best of luck to everyone!
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoI'm so making Wufoo-Foo
- cschep 16y agoIf you were to make an iPhone app, let's say to facilitate the mobile entry in a cool way, would you still own the app after the contest? I assume it's all just whatever you want to do with it? and they just pick a winner? or are you submitting to them "for keeps" ?
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoThe terms of the contest say you get to keep it: "The code from all submitted entries remains entirely under the ownership of the submitter. The exception is wrapper libraries which we require to be open source and permission given to us to put up on our GitHub repository."
- cschep 16y agoah, thanks.
- designer1993 16y agoFeature this!! :)
- pjscott 16y agoI love how Wufoo takes a really boring-sounding task, making forms, and manages to act downright giddy about it.
- seldo 16y agoThe fact that there is a market for point solutions like this always amazes me -- but we needed one ourselves in the early days, when we wanted to run a customer survey but were too busy building the product to write one.
- chunkyslink 16y agoFrom the rules and judging page > This contest is open to United States residents only. Why do this? Surely the aim is to make something cool. Why limit to the US ? Wufoo is not limited to the USA only so why apply this to the comp ? People in other countries also understand REST you know !
- prodigal_erik 16y agoFor what it's worth, after a history of scams there are now a lot of regulations in the US around contests and lotteries. I've see "US residents only" in fine print before, and I wouldn't be surprised if they would risk legal or tax problems if they let anyone else participate.
- unfoldedorigami 16y agoFor what it's worth, here's a bit more information. There are tax and legal reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweepstakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweepstakes "Because of their potential for abuse, sweepstakes are heavily regulated in many countries. The U.S., Canada, and individual U.S. states all have laws covering sweepstakes, resulting in special rules depending on where the entrant lives. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission exercises some authority over sweepstakes promotion and sweepstakes scams in the United States." While this isn't a sweepstakes, the same comission also oversees rules and laws about contests and have equally annoying restrictions. Obviously, we would love the talent and potential of the international community to work on this.
- Devilboy 16y agoThere's probably all sorts of complications when sending a battle axe around the world. I don't think it would get past Australian customs without some additional documentation for example.
- tomerico 16y agoI'm not sure whether you're sarcastic or not...
- pg 16y agoThis made my day. I love it that we funded a company that gives away battle axes.
- leftnode 16y agoIt is cool. I once ran OpenGLForums.com and when the movie Blade was really popular, I ran a contest to make a 3D movie programmatically about Blade and the winner would win the sword (or a replica, rather) from the movie. Unfortunately, it turns out shipping a weapon is much more difficult than it appears, especially overseas. I ended up just sending the guy the value of the sword and kept it for myself. Regardless, this is a cool contest and has a cool prize.
- lox 16y agoApparently the rest of the world doesn't deserve battle axes. I would have loved to enter. Totally need a battle axe.