I think small App contests could be super powerful for SAFE. They are cheap, quick and effective, and could get people from all over to start creating all sorts of open source apps for SAFE, now!!
I was thinking of starting this on a weekly basis, to get people to come out to my Jacksonville FL SAFE Meetups, but the idea can also be used anywhere.
The Asia group might help fund mine if it’s successful (under certain conditions), or I might fund them, or maybe if there’s a big one then we could crowdsource a prize pool so we get a whole bunch of apps that week!
There’s lots of ideas and I’ll get this going ASAP. For my FL meetup competitions, I’ll advertise the @$#? out of them online and with local fliers etc, so we get as many entrants / apps as possible. Most bang for the $$
Let me know if anyone wants to adapt this idea or would be interested in trying it out on a small or large scale at some point!
That. I would raise the money bar a little to say $250 or $500 for the best app of the week/month and see what’s coming in. I’m willing to sponsor that.
Sounds like a nice idea! I also think that 25/50$ is not enough to incentivize devs to create an app though. Maybe we can arrange something so we can have bigger bounties?
Bigger rewards would create more incentive, but I think it would be ok to try small prizes if the aim really is to get noticed and get people interested.
When people realise what SAFEnetwork is and what it offers, that’s also a big incentive.
Bigger incentives can also be tagged on later - so winners of the smaller awards go head to head for a bigger prize for example.
You got a point here but I don’t expect that people will get ‘triggered’ by a 25 or 50 dollar bounty if they’re not already triggered to create an app anyway.
Yeah, that’s what I meant in fact. Make this a monthly or quarterly contest for the first year or so, to attract attention for Safe Network, the Safe Apostore etc. Since even the smallest app costs at least $1,000 to have it designed, build, tested, approved and distributed, it’s fair to raise the amount of the prize somewhat.
Yeah I just didn’t want it to be toooo much of a financial drain on anyone, since I was planning to do it every week long term.
But yeah maybe the very first one I can advertise extra, and it can be $100 or something.
Definitely down to have larger ones with larger prices monthly or quarterly though! I can go to Orlando and partner with a big coworking lab or college or something and get a really huge one going with a bigger prize
That would be very cool. If we all donate on here and/or get it sponsored by an institution we could try to create a huge one that might atrract some attention and talent.
