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HN: Place to run a competition for developers?

by wibblenut on 1/13/11, 1:50 PM with 2 comments

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?

  • by federicof on 1/13/11, 2:30 PM

    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. :)