No one would really do this for free alone. Maybe not for cash, but I am sure having it in their portfolio would be more than worth it. Being part of a 40 perso

No one would really do this for free alone. Maybe not for cash, but I am sure having it in their portfolio would be more than worth it. Being part of a 40 person team, not so much. It is easier to collaborate on code than design, which is most important as I am sure the code would be trivial, or at least not useful to reuse. 40 designers would seem like a huge mess to me, and 40 programmers would seem a bit overkill. If I were him I would choose the best of the 40 and pay them a fair rate.