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by bhouston 4671 days ago
I said what I said, I didn't accuse them of stealing the idea in my post. But there is a murkiness with these types of contests though where one asks for ideas from a community with the promise of rewards for the best ideas. Obviously in hindsight, my idea was a really good one (which was the point of the contest no?) but I didn't get funding, not even a response.
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Perhaps you didn't hear back because they were building (or had plans to build) a POS system that they weren't ready to talk about.
Of note, there are other POS providers that use the Shopify API to provide integration and have been for awhile.
Perhaps you were silly enough to give them that idea then? Ideas are just that, ideas. They shouldn't have a price tag on them.