ChumBonus: Who Do You Know?

Had an interesting “how best” call with the head of community at TopCoder today, we tried the five day competition for what we thought was a reasonable $100 a screen and received a tepid response and predictable design.

On the call we were told that More Money and using a technique called Rounds is one way to get more quality submissions and more interest with the ability to make changes mid-stream. Using rounds just seems to add more time, which may delay our timeline. What we need is something to keep us on schedule.

In the next breath we hear, Less Money and a 24hr contest is also working well, which sounds so counter intuitive. Normally faster and cheaper are not terms typically seen together, but I will take the bait.

Tonight at 5:30 et we will launch a 24hr contest,

Good luck to all,

We just completed our first Storyboard competition with the help of Studio @ TopCoder, hummm, the output was not quite as snazzy as we were looking for, it was very fairly predictable. Maybe we provided too much info! Yeah that has to be it. Only two submissions though. So could it have been the prize money!

To get something really creative, I have been looking around at web site designs that I like, especially functional ones and something I use often is basecamp, if you have not seen or used it, it’s a very helpful site for collaboration for groups of people, in our case, for a dispersed team from different organizations!

Well -  we already really love the design on basecamp, and today I spotted a very detailed article and it reminded me of just how eye catching and functional basecamps’ design is.

So heads-up TopCoder community we are going to re-launch the UI storyboard on Monday this time trying to separate and differentiate ourselves from the growing number of competitions on the Studio @ TopCoder.

Take a look – and hopefully you’ll compete. We’ll even add some extra special referral bonus, so send to your designer friends, you’ll get something around $50 if they place.