From Google Doc Brainstorm: http://goo.gl/WTH2tm
- companies that can opt-in to the monthly milestone prize via equity or cash buy-in.
- So for example, companies that haven’t reached a milestone of 10k in sales can opt-in for the 10k milestone leaderboard prize for that month and every month until they make that milestone.
- equity can be sold, traded
- for example, let’s say a company wants to sell some of it’s shares, it does so on the platform either by selling unvested shares or making a board-member decision to dilute shares and sell them. this way you could also offer a kickstarter and/or Gust type fundraising campaign where people can contribute to the project simply with their money contribution(s).
- equity for ideamen
- Submit ideas to shwipe and let the community manage it's development
- No equity down
- Use the platform for free, no commitments, insert cash or equity per bounty as needed. We act as the trusty escrow to your bounty hunters.
- I read a quote on the site saying it was like a on-going hackathon.
- Hackathons are plagued with the problem of producing ground-breaking prototypes, often with poor or no follow up.
- With a siloed/hosted/white-labeled offering, hackathons could achieve decentralized greatness:
- During Hackathons:
- Mentors (and anyone really, both onsite & remote) could get rewarded for helping with features/bugs.
- Extra points for the mentors if it’s the registered/onsite hacker/team-member doing the typing of the code (audited via Cloud9 for example to see who’s account is doing the typing)
- Lean-a-thons... Earn-a-thons?!?!
- Go to a learning hackathon and hack on real world coding problems with professional coders in a pair-programming style.
- Split the points 1 to 3 from students to mentors.
- This could be for any teaching class potentially (at certain levels of designated difficulty). No need to just be in a hackathon.
- White Label,
- cause @codedoc said so, and it is a good idea.
- Open-Source, like down to what kind of toilet paper we use...
- this is a given.
- set a cash value for bounties and just deposit the moolah into our escrow so people have the trusties.
- mix and match, let users decided if they just want the cash or if they also want some equity, or just equity.
- Whenever people have a choice, they feel more comfortable. It’s real science somewhere, look it up.
- We want to live-code all the things so,
- If two or more people are working on a bounty, they can, and at shwipe.com it shows in real-time who's working on which bounty
- We then give contributors a UI to democratically self-divvy up the loot