Coshx Labs is giving away $50k of development. No strings attached.

Clever. So they get lots of great app ideas, pick the 4th or 5th best idea as the winner, build it, and then get to work on the actual best idea submitted for themselves.

&quot;We can build the technology, that is the easy part. Turning a product into a sustainable business is the challenge.&quot;<p>Technology is &#x27;easy&#x27; if your portfolio ( <a href="http://www.coshx.com/projects" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coshx.com&#x2F;projects</a>) consists of applications such as poll management and event scheduling.<p>In reality if you are going to build something awesome, it&#x27;s not going to be easy.

I tried sending an email to competition@coshx.com but I got a mail delivery subsytem error:<p>&quot;We&#x27;re writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (competition) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group&quot;.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s a misspelling somewhere? has anyone tried to send an email there as wel?

This sort of contest announcement is not really Hacker News material, even though it is an appeal to the HN demographic. The trouble is that such posts are not themselves intellectually interesting. If something cool gets built as a result, that would be interesting, and well worth posting here.

I&#x27;m a developer at Coshx. We&#x27;ll have full details on the rules and such when the contest starts. Will also see if someone can answer questions here but I don&#x27;t know the answers to these offhand. Thanks for your patience and interest. :)

Awesome! Any idea how public the public voting will be? i.e will a large community (4chan) be able to vote for their own idea and win easily?

US-only ?

Why post this on HN ? We are mostly programmers , techies or in tech business and s&#x2F;w is not difficult for us. Why not advertize&#x2F;post this on Business magazines or trade publications for Dentists , Doctors , Plumbers and such ?

Gotta spread the word on this one!