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🚀 Get Paid for Personal Projects

Do you have a personal projects you've wanted to build? We'll pay you to do it! 🚀

Each project can be rewarded anywhere from $40 - $1.5k depending on difficulty and quality.
Your code will be used to help train the next generation of coding LLMs!
Scope of acceptable projects: We're willing to accept most programming projects, as long as they are originally authored by you. We prefer projects that represent real-world SWE problems that are complex and take anywhere from ~1 hour to > 24 hours to complete.
The form below should take 10-15 mins to complete.
First let us know some basic info about you:

Full Name

Email

Discord

School + Program

Link to your GitHub

Let us see what kind of projects you've worked on in the past!

Where did you hear about this?

If you chose "Other", please specify where.

Are you already a Shipd user? If so, please specify your username.

(Optional) Resume

A resume will help us better understand your experience.
Next, let us learn about your project ambitions. Examples of projects you could work on:
⭐ Simple-Medium Projects
- Games (Minesweeper, Sudoku, Go, Poker) - Web (Custom URL Shortener, image rotation service) - Apps (Weather forecasting, time tracker, messenging app)
- A custom encryption / decryption algorithm - ... ⭐ Hard-Ultra Hard projects - Games: gameboy emulator, 2D/3D game engine - Compilers and OS projects
- Real-time collaborative text editor (like Google Docs)
- A serialization / deserialization library (like protobuf)
- Distributed systems (recommendations, code sandbox, search engines, video streaming) - Other SWE projects
Note that this must be a project written entirely by you. No projects can be taken from an public repository. AI-generated code is not permitted.

Tell us about your project idea. What is going to be its scope? (max 250 words)

Note that for simpler projects, we only accept Python or Java at the moment. Complex projects are accepted in all programming languages.
In addition to implementing the project, we also are looking for your ability to articulate the instructions to the project such that a competent developer can write the correct solution just by reading your project overview. For more complex projects, you might need to break this down into subtasks.
We encourage you to be very specific and clear about what features you want, and what libraries you are considering using. Feel free to share any broader technical decisions you want to be taken, as well as any special cases to consider for this project.

How long do you think the project will take to complete? (in hours)

Have you already started on the project?

It’s perfectly fine if you’ve already started working on the project—in fact, we encourage it! However, please ensure that the project remains private and is not shared publicly.
If you answered "Yes" to the previous question, please attach the files of the project.

How do you plan on testing this project? (max 100 words)

We're also looking for your ability to write tests and rubrics (for more complex projects) to validate implementations submitted by other individuals.
One last question, so we can get to know you a bit better.

Why do you enjoy working on personal projects? (max 100 words)

If there is a fit, we'd be really happy to pay you to work on multiple personal projects :))

Other / Past Project Ideas

If you have other project ideas that you'd like us to sponsor, please write them down here. If you have older projects that you have worked on in the past and are hosted in private repositories, we can also consider paying for those! Please let us know.

Anything else?

This is your chance to tell us anything else!
About the company: Shipd is a paid coding platform by Datacurve, a YC-backed startup started by 2 UWaterloo CS dropouts (Serena and Charley). Shipd has paid out over $150k+ USD in the past few months. Shipd is now expanding to accept larger scale coding projects (multiple files) submitted by users. Each project can be rewarded anywhere from $40 - $1.5k depending on its complexity and quality.