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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by jorde on Thursday November 21, 2013 @10:12PM (#6779036)
People also complaining that their apps didn't get any hits during the evaluation period [1]. If this is true, which it seems like to be, it is pretty shameful business from Salesforce given that people clearly used a decent part of their week in order to participate. I feel bad for Heroku employees who promoted this.

Edit: According to one of the judges [2], they only saw and evaluated the 5 Salesforce selected apps. Also the app gallery only shows the five winners [3]. No matter how the finalists were chosen, this is not how you run a hackathon.

[1]: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264... [2]: https://twitter.com/alexwilliams/status/403723331007832064 [3]: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions

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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by jmduke on Friday November 22, 2013 @01:04AM (#6779487)
that people clearly used a decent part of their week in order to participate

And $499.

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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by Jd on Friday November 22, 2013 @05:52AM (#6780153)
Hacker pass was $99 list price and often given out for free.
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Re:Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackatho... by philthesong on Friday November 22, 2013 @04:23AM (#6779901)
People gotta group up and sue them
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