The Web-Startup Tool Mindest.

Not startup but still losing tons of money.

even if it was free...... how about time?

I was wrong. Still though, that $99 fee is _per_ person. You'd probably have 2 or 3 people on your team. That's $300 in that case. And if I'm correct, I remember them saying that a 1-person team would have very low chances of winning. Not to mention that the competition is not a 1-day event, it is just a 1-day showing, the winning team put a month of work in addition to what they already had completed as a base. I am not one to take such large gambles when the tables are clearly not in my favor. The whole thing reeks of pre-arranged cronyism.

All entrants had to be a registered attendant of Dreamforce 2013. Are people including that cost too?

http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/

> You are, and each of your team members is, a registered attendee of Dreamforce 2013. See the Dreamforce website for event registration information.

How much did that cost? DF14 says it's going to be $799

https://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF13/register.jsp?d=70...

I think, but I don't know, that DF13 was the same price?

Maybe the 5 is just a key-rollover error from the $99?

Very few people registered at even the $99 hacker pass level, which is why they ended up making it free. Nobody who wasn't already going to DF paid the full conference price to participate in the hackathon. Quit with the hysteria.