BlackBerry is going a bit overboard with the BlackBerry 10 app bounties at SXSW 2013. They have decided to create a blog bounty for anyone who uses the BlackBerry App Generator to create an app. They are giving away $100 per app you create with your own content (up to $2,000 per vendor up to $500,000) for apps submitted between March 8, 2013 and 11:59:59 pm ET on March 17, 2013.
That means if you have a WordPress blog, Tumblr, YouTube Channel, Facebook page, Flickr gallery, or anything that spits out an RSS feed you can make $100. You just create an app in 10 minutes and you are golden as long as you own the rights to use the content in your app. In other words do not try to create an app using Justin Beibers website.
Check out the details on the DevBlog or in the terms and conditions. Head on over to the App Generator here.
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 153
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM EST
Bleh, now I gotta remove my approved generated app, then repost it just to qualify.
Tim Not Registered
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 6:55 PM EST
I only wish the App Generator could handle a Twitter feed. :-/
jay Not Registered
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 7:39 PM EST from my BlackBerry Z10 | OS 10.0.9.2372
Papped, your app should have auto magically ported to bb10 via portathon and thus eligible for 100 bucks
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 153
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 8:35 PM EST
Yeah but I think this is actually separate from the portathon
jamesdee Not Registered
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM EST
Oh great. Just what we needed. More junk apps filling up BlackBerry World.
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3331
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 10:16 PM EST
Yeah I am not sure what they are thinking. The irony is that Mippin has not even updated the image on the App Generator homepage from the Dev Alpha
Allen George Not Registered
Posted: March 8, 2013 at 2:22 AM EST
This makes absolutely no sense. BB should be encouraging devs to create _high quality_ apps, not stuff like this.
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 153
Posted: March 8, 2013 at 3:23 PM EST
They probably have numbers to meet and pre-allocated $$ to burn on this…
jaysus858 Not Registered
Posted: March 8, 2013 at 3:21 AM EST from my BlackBerry Z10 | OS 10.0.9.2372
Ah yes and BlackBerry World having 5 million sound boards and ring tones is “High quality”
Papped, I had a few apps pre portathon that auto ported and are eligible. This current new date may be different from “Portathon” however any apps submitted and thereby ported before above date is eligible.
Ie no resubmission, if in doubt contact BlackBerry developer program.
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 153
Posted: March 8, 2013 at 3:25 PM EST
Today I got contacted about returning my dev alpha even though I sent it back (and it was marked as received) in Jan…
There’s always a billion questions from people about eligibility for every single BB dev program they’ve had since the dawn of time (after the fact, rather than it being covered ahead of time).
If there’s one thing BB Dev program support is not, it’s organized….