Cambrian House - Crowdsourced Software
Cambrian House is a very interesting idea - “crowdsourced software”, as they call it: “It’s like Open Source, but with Money!”
Their goal is to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to both receive as well as filter business ideas, code, and creative content (more specifically products need to be ‘realized’ over the Internet/web).
How Cambrian House works is particularly intriguing. They use “the crowd” to receive and filter ideas (through Digg like ranking), to build the worthwhile products, and then Cambrian House actually sells the products using their “secret sauce” Chameleon to help them.
Community members that help contribute to profitable products get paid based on royalty points. The more you contribute, the more royalty points you earn (different values are given to different tasks in the development process).
The Cambrian House site is pretty cool - check out the People and History page (nice use of Flash). These guys are also generally crazy, as identified by their sending 1000 pizzas to Google. Well, to be fair, I guess I’ll just let the wisdom of the crowds decide on that one.
August 23, 2006 at 11:26 am
Hello,
in the same concept, look at this website that I’ve just noticed http://cecrowdsourcing.blogspot.com/ This is a further step on the crowdsourcing as it aims to design and sale electronic products for the first time (it’s hardware development and not software for this time). The company’s name is Logoden. It looks promising but it’s just started. I’d recommand you to join this community, who knows it can work and you can potentially earn money.