Offer HN: $2000 worth of free work (last 4 days to get your idea in)

Good luck OP. I expect you're going to catch a lot of undesirable fish with this bait. :)

So how many 'business guys with an idea' have pitched you? Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey would love you.<p><a href="http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com</a>

I think you may have broken your own first rule ;)<p><a href="http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/35-so-you-wanna-be-a-freelancer.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/35-so-you-wanna-be-a-freelan...</a>

This is a great marketing idea.

Is 25 hours of coding sufficient to make an MVP. My experience says at least 100 hrs for meaningful MVP when the idea is not trivial.