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title: API Contests and Challenges
url: http://apievangelist.com/2011/01/01/api-contests-and-challenges/
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author:
  name: kinlane
tags:
- API Evangelist
- APIs
- Amazon
- Twilio
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In 2010 contests were a proven way to generate attention about your API and products as well as generate some great code and applications for your API.

Some contests in 2010 were:

*   [AWS Start-up Challenge](http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge)
*   [Bit.ly API Contest](http://blog.bit.ly/post/1307062006/its-a-bit-ly-api-contest)
*   [Etsy Handmade Code Contest]( http://www.programmableweb.com/contests)
*   [PayPal X Developer Challenge](https://www.x.com/community/ppx/devchallenge)
*   [Twilio Netbook Mondays](http://contests.twilio.com/)
*   [World Bank Apps for Development](http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/)

All these contests are finished now, except for the World Bank Apps for Development which is still running for another week.

We will see many more [contests](http://www.apievangelist.com/ecosystem-building-blocks-detail.php?Building_Block_ID=201) is 2011 for new and existing [APIs](http://www.apievangelist.com/), bringing in new developer talent and attention to those APis. Have you considered throwing a contests for your API or participated in a contest as a developer?