If you’re interested in programming as means to win cash and prizes, here’s a quick guide to how (or where) best to spend your precious coding time based on currently in-progress contests. (Note that these are ordered by deadline and today’s your last day for the Virtual Earth prize):
| Contest | Prize | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| MSN Virtual Earth Competition | $1000 | Oct 14, 2005 |
| NewsGator API Developer Competition | Dell Latitude D610 or Apple Powerbook G4 laptop | Nov 11, 2005 |
| Amazon.com’s AWS Developer Contest | $5,000 | Dec 31, 2005 |
| MSN Messenger World’s Best App Contest | Alienware Area 51m 7700 Mobile Desktop | Dec 31, 2005 |
Can’t say that the evaluation criteria varies widely as they’re all looking for something to show-off their respective APIs: creativity, usability, and utility. Amazon adds ‘Commercial Appeal: the consumer or business value represented in the application’.
Life is short, code wisely.
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3 Responses to “How to Win Money Coding”
at 3:00 am
How to Win Money Coding
John Musser has a list of contests where you can win money by coding. Nice way to get some more pocket money, I’d say…
I also like his final remark in that blog post:
Life is short, code wisely.
at 8:57 am
Ok, this is almost spam - But here you have some bounties from the Cherokee Webserver site, for up to US$700.
at 9:55 am
Cherokee Bounty hunting: Free Software development, $2000 in prize