HN: Place to run a competition for developers?

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1 points by wibblenut 5641 days ago

Does anybody know of a site where I could run a competition for developers?

The general idea is to spur interest in an API by offering prize incentives to people who build new apps and services.

Rather than building a resource for this myself I thought it would be neat if I could find a place already set up for it. Any ideas?

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federicof 5641 days ago

Hi, I'm the founder of Coderloop.com, a programming competition platform. Our platform is able to test user submitted programs against a problem spec. We also support specs that require the user to write a program that interacts with an HTTP server (an example here http://www.coderloop.com/puzzles/islands ). If you are interested we can build some puzzles dedicated to your API. :)

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wibblenut 5641 days ago

Interesting, thanks.

The scope for my contest would be more loosely based than solving a specific problem criteria, although that could be an added fun twist! I anticipate people would build apps for phones, plugins for other software, services to help users, etc. Many companies run competitions of this nature, e.g. Twilio.

I could run off some ideas for what's needed if you'd be interested in expanding Coderloop to support a contest like this?

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