Help us win the PayPal X Developer Challenge
- What is the PayPal X Developer Challenge?
- How to Vote with a PayPal Account
- How to Vote without a PayPal Account
What is the PayPal X Developer Challenge?
The PayPal X Developer Challenge is a contest for applications using PayPal's new Adaptive Payments APIs. Announced in November 2009, developers were tasked with building innovative payment applications for businesses in areas such as services, social media, gaming, mobile and consumer electronics.
Finalists will be determined by popular vote on x.com (registration required). Voting is open from February 22nd - March 5th. Then a panel of distinguished judges including chairman of eBay Inc., Pierre Omidyar; PayPal president Scott Thompson; general partner of Andreessen/Horowitz, Marc Andreessen; Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha, and Intuit’s Scott Cook, will choose the top two prize winners.
Winners will be announced at DEMOspring2010 in March. The first and second prizes are $50,000 and $25,000 in cash and $50,000 and $25,000 in waived PayPal transaction fees.
Follow the conversation at #paypalx and #xcontest!
How to Vote with a PayPal Account
Voting takes about 5 minutes. Please follow the steps below. If you have any trouble, email help@appbackr.com.
- Go to https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge/lp and click on the VOTE NOW text.
- Login to PayPal X with your PayPal account. If you do not have a PayPal account, click here.
- Because it's your first time on PayPal X, you will be asked to create a profile. Select "Create new profile" and enter a screen name. Select at least one area of expertise. This seems to be a little buggy, if you have trouble with your selections, select PHP. Click Agree and Submit.
- You are now on the PayPal X site as a registered user. Click the Vote Now button.
- You are now back on the PayPal X Dev Challenge Voting page. Click on Vote Now text.
- Type D1021 into the search tool at the top right of the page. If you get a No Results message, it is because you are not on the voting site. Go back and select Vote Now again to see this page.
- You can now vote for for the PayPal X Dev Challenge. Click the checkmark on the left. When the checkmark turns blue, you have voted! You'll see a video of a guy playing a guitar (take a moment to watch since it tells our story well)
How to Vote without a PayPal Account
Voting takes about 5 minutes. Please follow the steps below. If you have any trouble, email help@appbackr.com.
- Go to https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge/lp and click on the VOTE NOW text.
- Click Sign up
- Click Continue
- Enter your information, scroll down and click Agree and Create Account.
- You will see a "Thanks for signing up" message and then be redirected to PayPal X.
- Because it's your first time on PayPal X, you will be asked to create a profile. Select "Create new profile" and enter a screen name. Select at least one area of expertise. This seems to be a little buggy, if you have trouble with your selections, select PHP. Click Agree and Submit.
- You are now on the PayPal X site as a registered user. Click the Vote Now button.
- You are now back on the PayPal X Dev Challenge Voting page. Click on Vote Now text.
- Type D1021 into the search tool at the top right of the page. If you get a No Results message, it is because you are not on the voting site. Go back and select Vote Now again to see this page.
- You can now vote for for the PayPal X Dev Challenge. Click the checkmark on the left. When the checkmark turns blue, you have voted! You'll see a video of a guy playing a guitar (take a moment to watch since it tells our story well)
