Salesforce hackathon comes under attack from devs • Hacker News Board

Re: Salesforce hackathon comes under attack from devs

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Post by colabi » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

gwf wrote: post #39

shuzchen wrote: post #37

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This hn comment links to a few places where people complained: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6779036 The link that specifically shows people complaining that nobody viewed their app or looked at their video is this: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264...

Your first link doesn't contain a single complaint claiming that people's videos were not viewed. It does, however, link to the second link, and the other two links it contains make no references to this sort of complaint. The second link has exactly one person clearly stating that they've received zero launches and zero video plays. There is a second person that states "Yeah, same here. We had a workflow setup to se…

And btw, the system won't operate now if anyone actually tries to test it. Too many dependent systems doing things that I spun down.

Tell Salesforce to hold an open judging and I'll spin them back up. And EVERYONE should get a chance to show off their applications.

Re: Salesforce hackathon comes under attack from devs

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Post by colabi » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

gwf wrote: post #39

shuzchen wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This hn comment links to a few places where people complained: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6779036 The link that specifically shows people complaining that nobody viewed their app or looked at their video is this: http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264...

Your first link doesn't contain a single complaint claiming that people's videos were not viewed. It does, however, link to the second link, and the other two links it contains make no references to this sort of complaint. The second link has exactly one person clearly stating that they've received zero launches and zero video plays. There is a second person that states "Yeah, same here. We had a workflow setup to se…

actually, you could do us all a favor. ask salesforce to open up the entry gallery. we've been trying to construct that ourselves. but some people are scattered to the wind. and others have relationships with salesforce and don't want them jeopardized by being an active voice.

people did hard work. and i'm not just advocating for myself. it is appauling that the work went into the circular file. and what they would have been judged on is the marketing brochure.

Re: Salesforce hackathon comes under attack from devs

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Post by colabi » Wed, Nov 27, 2013, 3:28 AM UTC

gwf wrote: post #43

willchilcutt wrote: post #41

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Thanks for giving more feedback. Would you be kind to respond to the other child of your OP pointing out that the winner had been working and actually demoed their app way before the starting period set out in the rules? Thanks!

No problem. Will do in a second...

gwf. if you, and salesforce, really believe it was an improbable series of poor decisions and not malicious intent, tell your bosses it is time to build the redemption story. and we can speak about how to reboot this together, the company and the contestants.