adambair

The amount of buzzwords on the site made me think this was some kind of elaborate joke. I'm not yet convinced it isn't...

Agreed. Unfortunately I think it's becoming more difficult for beginners to get up and running with Rails. Perhaps that's how a community evolves... or perhaps I'm no longer the target audience ;)

It was dead for a while but has since been moved to a static page.

Yeah, they monitor your repo during the competition. You're only allowed to create paper assets before the competition begins. You can see our paper mock (for smacksale.com) by clicking the robot in the footer or here http://smacksale.com/images/sketch.jpg