$25k to build the next GitHub for $125B company? How generous.

And not even cold hard cash but “Cloudflare credits.”

What an offensive slap in the face.

	▲	Topfi 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And only if you are a US or Canadian citizen/team and doubly so only if you use a permissive license like MIT, Apache-2.0 or BSD-2/3. Having even a moderate degree of control over your project is too much to ask for. But you do get a dinner, which might make it all worth it. Tone deaf to the nth degree.
	▲	Rapzid 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's SCRIP!!!
	▲	b3lvedere 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I”m so sick of all these weird credits and points. Can’t pay food or bills with it.

gkoberger 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They don't want to own the next GitHub. They want people to build the next GitHub on Artifacts (and pay Cloudflare for storage and compute).

I don't have a strong opinion here, but giving away compute as a prize for hackathons isn't anything new.

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, kinda, but usually the compute is given away as part of the hackaton. Even AWS hackaton did expect you to buy AWS credits..

Rapzid 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The whole thing seems a bit uncouth. I get a real gross feeling from it.

ttul 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That was my reaction. I was expecting, "The winner receives $500,000 in cash, $1M in Cloudflare credits, and an introduction to our venture team."

tchalla an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On brand for Cloudflare which is typically a cheap company.

mannanj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree that the compensation was a miss.

	▲	tomlis an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I really hope that was a purposeful understatement.