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HotApps PDK Leaderboard is Live!
August 11 — Topics: Hot Apps — joshmarinacci
That’s right app fans, the Palm Hot Apps Leaderboard is back, only this time the million dollars is just for PDK apps. All those rad 3D games, crazy special effects, and essential beer simulators are at your finger tips on the webOS.
Oh yeah, and this time we added an extra tier at $50,000, and the bottom tier has the option of $1,000 credit at HP.com or a brand new HP ENVY 17 premium laptop.
The competition runs until September 30th, and as you can see there’s still plenty of space in the free column for you to earn a big bonus. And don’t think this is just for the big guys. In the paid catalog small game developer DVide Arts has just released Crusade of Destiny, the first 3D RPG for webos, and it’s already shot up to the # 2 spot. It’s definitely not too late to win. Good apps move fast through the rankings.
You can always find the leaderboard at http://palmhotapps.com/. We plan to update it every day, and just to make sure you can keep on top of it we’ve created a Twitter account specifically for the competition. Follow @palmhotapps to always have the latest Hot Apps news.
A quick summary of the rules. This competition is just for apps built with the Plugin Development Kit (PDK),
an easy to use C/C++ toolkit for building webOS plugins and apps. The
competition ends September 30th, and the app must be available in the
catalog by then. The competition only counts sales after July 15th on
devices running 1.4.5 or higher to give all developers a level playing
field.
As before, Palm and HP employees are excluded, and you can only win once in the 100k and 50k tiers. See the full rules for more details.
Does anyone know what the exact specs for the Envy 17 premium are? Aka lighted up keyboard?
And if you want to follow the competition on your webOS device… with the added ability to filter the current standings by Developer and/or App Name, along with the ability to track specific apps that may or may not show up on the leaderboard using the App Id… There’s an app for that – Flame – and its FREE.
BTW, big thanks to Josh for the service that provides the app with the data it displays/filters.