Try Tuts+ Premium, Get Cash Back!
Reminder: $41,000 Web Developer Competition

Reminder: $41,000 Web Developer Competition

on May 9th 2011 with 51 comments

Folks – you have less than two weeks to finish up your item! Hurry up! How’s it coming along? Let us know in the comments.

After months of planning, I’m pleased to introduce our $41,000 web developer competition on Nettuts+ and CodeCanyon. Officially launching today, we want you to…build something! Do a kick-ass job, and you’ll win everything from cash, to an iPad 2, to the 3DS, to a seemingly never-ending string of subscriptions to amazing online services.

$41000 Web Development Competition
April 4th – May 20th

How’s it Work?

  1. Build an item…

    We’re searching for kick-ass, premium plugins and mobile components at the moment. Think about what you personally have found yourself in need of. A Joomla events calender? A WordPress membership system, perhaps? What about a Titanium boilerplate to jumpstart your iPhone app?

    Well, get started building it!

  2. Submit to CodeCanyon

    When your item is complete, submit it to CodeCanyon. If you don’t yet have an author account, that’s okay; take a few moments to sign up for a free account. You have until May 20th to get your item in!

  3. That’s it!

    You’re done! Once your item is accepted on the marketplace, not only will you profit from each sale, but you’ll also be automatically entered into the competition! To the best comes the spoils!

Prizes!

Prizes

We’ve gone all out in this competition to bring you prizes from some of the best companies in the world, including MediaTemple, GitHub, RuleFM, SpiderOak, Usability Hub, and many many more.

Terms and Conditions

  1. Entry is open to all Envato marketplace authors.

  2. Envato editors, managers, and reviewers may not participate.

  3. All winners who reside outside of the United States may receive cash-value for some of the prizes, including the Nintendo 3DS and iPad 2.

  4. All submissions to the Plugins and Mobile categories will automatically be entered into the competition.

  5. Authors may submit multiple entries, but may only receive one place in the competition.

  6. Promotion commences on 4th April 2011, 12:01 AM EST, and final entries close on 20th May 2011, at 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be chosen within a maximum of two weeks from the competition’s conclude date.

  7. Winning authors agree to sign a contract which confirms that their item will be sold exclusively on CodeCanyon, under the author’s account, for a minimum of 6 months.

  8. The winner will be notified by telephone or email, and will be mentioned on both Nettuts+ and CodeCanyon postings.

  9. All payments and prizes will be made within a maximum of 1 month from the conclusion date of the competition.

  10. Winners will be determined by the Envato marketplace management team, exclusively. All decisions are final.

  11. All questions, comments, and concerns should be directed to Jeffrey Way at jeffrey[at]envato.com.

So there it is. Competition begins…now! To the best comes the spoils! Feel free to chime in within the comments if you have any questions. Otherwise, good luck!

 
Enjoyed this Post?

Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!

By

Rollover to read this author's bio or click through to see a full list of posts by this author.

I'm the editor of Nettuts+, and love making the process of building for the web as easy as possible. Also, I'm finishing up my latest book on Laravel Testing! If you want be friends, say hi on Twitter.  

Plus Premium
 
 
Note: Want to add some source code? Type <pre><code> before it and </code></pre> after it. Find out more
  • Sherlack

    Nice!

  • http://www.tisseur-de-toile.fr/ jeFFF

    Hello,

    Just a quick question,
    Is it open to all countries ?

    Thx
    jeFFF

    • Nick

      You’re really not reading.

  • http://rxa.li/themeforest Xaver

    Looks awesome!

  • http://certainstrings.com Certain Strings

    This is awesome! Just a heads up, Structurer Premium is listed twice under Envato Prizes for the 2 Runners Up section.

  • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

    This would be fantastic to win, but I think thinking of the idea will be harder that it will be to code…

    :D

    • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

      *than

      • SalmanAbbas007

        Exactly. I can code well but don’t have any good idea :((

    • http://bibikova.com ben

      Ok, lets make a team. I will provide you with a slam dunk idea, and you code it.

  • http://blog.end3r.com/ Ender

    Yay, awesome!

    Too bad it’s only for plugins and mobile components, you should definitely do something similar for some other useful scripts.

  • http://matt-bridges.com/ Matt Bridges

    Wow! Wish I had the time to put something together for this!

  • http://www.logic52.com Shane

    Hmmm… $41,000 sounds good but i’d prefer an iPad :P. I know exactly what I want. Will a strong learning curve stand in my way?

    • http://blog.brianseitel.com Brian

      You are aware that $41,000 could buy you an iPad, yes? Or 100 of them, even.

      • Eastern Block

        Not after good old Uncle Sam gets through with you.

  • waste

    Looks just awesome! Too bad i can’t make anything decent yet to take part haha, but good luck to the contestants!

  • http://blog.creative-webdesign.info Andi

    Cool! I’m working on something now, I hope my item will be accepted :)

  • http://www.danharper.me Dan Harper

    “Envato editors, managers, and reviewers may not participate.”

    So authors can participate? :)

    • http://www.dazydude.net Rik de Vos

      Of course!
      How else would you be able to submit your item ;-)

  • http://rcanblog.com Aashish

    Hi Jeff,

    There is something wrong in terms

    Promotion commences on 15th March 2011, 12:01 AM EST, and final entries close on 15th April 2011, at 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be chosen within a maximum of two weeks from the competition’s conclude date.

    • Luis

      I would say the same…

  • Mark

    Sound like glorified spec work :\ should we as professionals really be promoting this. Ok you may get a few sales from the code canyon market place but ultimately this is spec work.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Not really. For existing CodeCanyon authors, it’s an opportunity to make a huge bonus.

  • Batfan

    http://codecanyon.net/codecanyon-competition?ref=NetPremium#prizes

    It would appear that your stylesheet has gone missing :)

  • http://yougapi.com Yougapi

    We have some awesome WordPress plugins that we have been working on these last weeks and it will definitely be submitted for this competition. Good luck everybody!

  • http://www.modernooze.com sam – dorset web design

    COOL ILL GET MY BUILDIN HEAD ON

  • DJK

    Best of luck to all participants. (:

  • Robert

    Quick question, do these Plugins have to be For WordPress or Joomla? I am currently working on some Invision Power Board stuff, I was wondering if that would allow me to qualify…

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Any plugin will do.

  • Xander

    I am a Windows user. As long as I can win Mac software and no Windows… I will boycott this event.
    Please join in. The price main prize is only 1500 dollar, that’s 25 hours of labour which you could be spending at the beach.

  • brad mezo

    awesome competition,i hope to find myself in this……..

    q:i submit an article 3 weeks ago here in nettuts, and i didn’t get a response for accepting or refusing it,can
    i know the situation for this?

  • http://yougapi.com/ Yougapi

    @xander There is also an iPad2 in the main price. And all the subscriptions or the 1 year hosting (1200$ value) could be useful (even if it’s not cash). The winner gets also recognition and visibility, and that could be even better than the prices…

  • Codeamatic

    Are Drupal plugins allowed? Or are the plugins limited to Joomla and/or WordPress?

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Drupal plugins are allowed.

  • Landers

    Jeffrey, you seem to be using the “kick-ass” term a lot lately and I find it obnoxious and immature. Instead you should use the term “mind-blowing” or the word awesome. It’s sounds more professional this way. Thanks.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      You’re right. “Mind blowing” will really grab their attention.

  • Olle Linderos

    I have two questions about this, which by the way, sounds awesome!

    1. You have to be an author to submit? Or can anyone do it?
    2. Does it have to be a plugin? I’ve got great idea which would be awesome, but to make it run via WordPress would just make it run slower I think.

    • http://imkwaa.com Olle Linderos

      Nevermind the second question ^^

  • Aphiwad

    quick question

    is this open for anyone?

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Yes.

  • http://iMotivate.net Netguy

    Does this mean that teh code shud be *HEAVY* and teh code should atleast consist of a 1000 lines ? or even a simple code with a cool Idea wud work ?

    • http://imkwaa.com Olle Linderos

      I don’t think the amount of code is an issue, because if you’ve got a well functioning plugin built on a 100 lines of code, I would still like it.

      Does the plugin have to have a outside function, Jeff? I’m currently developing a plugin I think is very needed, atleast for me as a WordPress user. The “catch” with it is that it only exists in the dashboard. Is that still something viable for this competition?

  • http://www.sulaeman.com Sulaeman

    Does the existing plugin, i mean alredy submited and having sales also can be added to the competition?

  • http://www.webestools.com/ Webestools

    That cool! If I find a good idea, I will try to win the competition :D

  • http://www.teamocvzla.com/ Jose Gomez

    hmm…. i don’t know what to code, i’m totaly Blank! LOL

    someone has an idea?

  • http://yougapi.com Yougapi

    @Sulaeman Items already on the marketplace before April 4 don’t count in the competition.

  • http://www.BlaineSch.com BlaineSch

    Winners will be determined by the Envato marketplace management team, exclusively.

    But how is it based? The most popular items will win? The most unique idea? Random? Whatever they decide to vote on? A combination of a few of these?

    Without knowing how items will be ranked, I probably won’t even try.

  • http://www.drivvedwebbyra.se Fredrik

    Halleluja! Great competition for me, now have to make complete something for once :)

  • srigi

    What about mobile application written as HTML5? With offline support of course. Is this valid mobile application in general? Is it valid submission for this competition?

  • James

    Whats wrong with the the styling of the page? Looks like some files are gone missing…

    http://codecanyon.net/codecanyon-competition

  • Luis

    Nice contest, but.. the reality is that for all the time one will put into it to developing the application for the contest, one can actually get paid a nice chunk of cash somewhere.

    $1500 is just chump change. the Ipad is also a crappy price compared to the effort.

    guys just freelance , yo’ull end up putting 20 plus hours to this and waste your time… plus the’ll keep your work. booooo.

  • Mike Rosas

    Darn, i just came up with somehting and the competition its already closed!