Coshx Labs is giving away $50k of development. No strings attached. (opens in new tab)

So submit things that will be more for the public good than things that could make you your fortune. Although, of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Not a bad idea, but also not in the spirit of our company or this competition. Anyone can view the ideas that are submitted, not Coshx alone. Certainly this well keep some people from submitting, but it will not keep us from helping someone launch their idea.

ideas have very little value. what really matters is the execution team.

> In reality if you are going to build something awesome, it's not going to be easy.

Turning a product into something that people like and use is nearly impossible (statistically speaking). Once you solve that then turning it into a sustainable business is easy.

Seriously, it's all hard. Only people who haven't tried to do it believe it's easy.

You're right, if the winning idea is "build the control software for a self-driving boat that can search for a missing airplane," then the tech certainly will not be easy (and would be pretty awesome). What we were getting at with that line was that there are lots of great business ideas that can be prototyped without solving monumental technical challenges, and having a solid prototype isn't enough for a startup to succeed - it's only the beginning.

Sorry about that, we had the permissions set too strictly. It's fixed now, and I want to thank you for bringing this to our attention before the competition starts.

It appears not to open until the 15th April according to their timeline.

Thanks so much for the interest (Owen from Coshx here). The voting will be 100% public for the first round in order to pick the 5 finalists. If an individual or team can get the entire 4chan community behind them, then I call that market validation and more power to them! Official rules will be sent out soon and they state that an individual or team must be behind the concept, but that operating companies are excluded from getting free work. We want to help someone launch and idea, not reduce costs for a profitable company.

Same thing I was going to ask. They say the contest rules will be published when the competition starts if I'm not mistaken.

Nope, this is not limited geographically.

Surely the idea of a one-off crowd sourced mini incubator is at least a little interesting to someone who writes|plans|sells software.

Immediate reactions from me include "Should my company get on board with something like this?", "I wonder what the equity split is like", "Could there be a platform for voting up ideas to work on based on customer validation?", "Should I build that platform to bubble up ideas with a verifiable userbase?"

Why not advertise on both? People at HN have already asked some great questions and even offered helpful insights, and we appreciate that.