Hacker News Challenge

Yes, and the proof of your good intentions is that you posted the contest's conditions on your Web page -- the licensing and disposition of the contest entries, the awards if any, and so forth. The fact that these essentials are missing was an oversight?

> Our engineering team is actually the one that came up with the idea.

Your social engineering team?

> We are hiring and we are definitely doing it in a fun way.

No contest conditions = no fun. Those are the rules.

All you're telling me is that you're inexperienced in running a business. Take this opportunity to show that you understand the modern world -- fix the contest content of your Web page. Explain what it means, where the contest entries go, who owns them and so forth.