[eskimoroll]

"We expected and encouraged teams to take advantage of existing APIs and services they’ve written to create a great mobile app. "

That line upsets me. They absolutely did not encourage teams to take advantage of existing services that they have previously written and pointing to one random post on the developer forum as evidence of this is terrible. My team and I read the official rules together several times before deciding that we could not in good faith incorporate our existing product (including using our own API to integrate features) into the mobile app we built for the hackathon. The line "built from scratch" in the rules seemed clear to us but apparently we were mistaken.

[jamra]

I would like to see people banding together to get refunds. It appears that the competition was a sham.

The prize was a lot of money as well. That should set some alarms off when you enter a 3 day competition.

[colabi]

I had a simpler idea. What if Microsoft or oracle just took over to finish this thug. Most developers just want to show off what they did. Sales force never even created a gallery for that

[chadwickthebold]

There's no incentive for them to do that. Why would another corp want to go sticking their hands in this massive mess, possibly getting blowback from either Salesforce or the hacking masses?

[colabi]

are you kidding? There could be no better roi. I don't even think a prize would be necessary. People are angry for many reasons, not the least of which is that no one got to see what they created. That just reduces everyone to a seat filler for the promo videos

[yyl]

I was REALLY excited to see other people's hacks too!

[argonaut]

Yeah! "We demand nothing back!" [1]

[1] Tickets were free.