ChirpBot Wins the Early Bird Prize in the DreamHost API Contest

Thanks to Josh Jones and the team at Dreamhost for awarding ChirpBot as the winner of the early bird prize in their “Crazy $10,000 giveaway contest!”. You see, Dreamhost developed a lovely little API a while ago, and to promote it, they set up the following contest:

Develop any application (Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, iPhone, Facebook, Boxee, Firefox Plugin, whatever…) that uses the DreamHost API by April 30th 2009, and submit a link to it in the comments to this post.

We (I) will personally review all entries, and CASH prizes will be awarded to the best apps to the tune of:

Grand Prize: $5,000
1st Place: $2,500
2nd Place: $1,250
3rd Place: $500
4th Place: $750

The final prize winners have been announced and we’re very pleased to report that a $2,000 early bird prize was awarded to the best of the bunch – ChirpBot.

We’re quite pleased with this early recognition, not just because we like people giving us money, but because it’s validation for an idea that we feel has so much room to grow into something bigger.