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But winning the app contest has not been a guaranteed path to success.
Bram Fritz, a graphic-design student, thought it up for an app contest the city held in 2011 (it won first prize in the "safety" category).
The creators of WayFinder NYC, which won the top prize in that first app contest, were found milling near the "investor bar" minutes before this year's winners were announced.
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The beta was downloaded 160,000 times — you can see some of the applications developers have built so far on this App Contest site.
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This is common for app contests, said Brandon Kessler of ChallengePost, which is running the authority's competition and has handled more than 200 similar contests.
I tried almost everything: soccer, Model United Nations, volunteering at a local court, art competitions, science fairs, app contests, and biomedical research.
One of the best known civic mobile app contests is the NYC BigApps Challenge.
Government agencies in Brazil and Chile have held their own national app contests, including a hackathon launched by Brazil's congress last month to source legislative transparency tools in the wake of anti-government protests earlier this year.
The city highlighted the success of MyCityWay, whose NYCWay won several awards from the first Big Apps contest in 2010.
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