RE: [Call for Input] Spotlight Development Challenge on Utopian.io - Make Money Developing on Github!
Perhaps running the contests in segments would make sense? There could be a Proposal phase where devs sign up, they offer information regarding their idea, their resources, their team etc. and are ranked on the completeness of their idea.
Winners of this contest move on to the next phase.
The second phase could be development. Teammates could give an update that outlines their progress in creating the app, they could discuss roadblocks, accomplishments, etc.
Winners of this phase move on to the last phase
The third phase could be a pitch phase where the devs create a publication outlining the benefits of using their newly created apps.
With this model, it's likely that we would host the idea collection phases weekly. We could host the development update phases monthly and the final round once every quarter. Similarly the prizes could reflect the stage of competition the devs are in.
That would mean that by entering this contest you & your team aim to have a working demo of the project within 3 months.
Sounds like you aldesdy have it planned. This looks like a long term commitment too. I bet it would be great.
I feel like we'd need to add some dev to this project. Like you said it would take a lot of commitment, and reducing that workload could be super helpful to the functionality and staying power that the project will need to really get going.