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5K App Developer Challenge: Genealogy App Contest
- kls 15y agoIf you’ve been thinking, "there should be an app for that," now is your chance. Solving that problem could earn you $5,000 and the admiration of millions. I really hate these app and design challenges, they marginalize the profession and quite honestly I think people do it because they want to offload the fact that they cannot identify good developers. Therefore they create these challenges in the hopes that a good developer will rise up out of the ranks. Why developers who are worth far more than 5k choose to compete in these events that marginalize their career is beyond me, they only encourage the practice. IF I solve that problem I am going to earn far more than 5k because there is no reason for me to give away my hard work once the product is finished, I can find a guy to market it for 10% of the take and cut a company that wants to exploit my efforts out of the picture. On an unrelated not, your guys logo is really familiar to a stock art asset that is for sale http://depositphotos.com/4930811/stock-illustration-Circuit-tree.html http://depositphotos.com/4930811/stock-illustration-Circuit-... you may want to consider changing it, as gaining a trademark or signature mark on it will be very difficult given the prior art.
- RootsTech_Faith 15y agoWe appreciate your feedback, kls. We want to assure everyone that the purpose of the contest is to spur creativity and collaboration among the developer community itself - not for us to exploit the eventual winner. The contest winner will have full ownership of their idea and can further productize it all they want. In fact, we encourage that, and if we are able to assist in the promotion of their great idea along the way, even better. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us.