How can I register?
You can create a free account by using the form with the “REGISTER” button on about.swip.world. There are several challenges where you can win money if you have good ideas / solutions to the problems described in these projects. I do hope you’ll find exciting opportunities to earn extra cash on our platform. As we’ve only recently launched, we’re working on increasing the number of projects our users can contribute to.

If you fill out your skills in your profile, our matching algorithms can notify you once there is a new project suiting your expertise.

I’ve just joined swip.world. Now what?
The best way to start, is having a look at all the projects we publish under: https://www.swip.world/projects. If you have an idea how to solve the described problem, you can select “Add my solution” to submit your idea. By submitting your solutions you have the chance to win prizes. Please read each project description carefully . If you have question please feel free to contact the swip team.

How can I use swip.world for my company?

• create a Challenge to find a solution to a difficult problem
• post a Job if you’re looking for employees
• create an Event to invite to your event and sell tickets
• create a Company profile to present your company and get in touch with others
• create a Group for your employees to stay in touch with each other

How much does it cost to register?
Basic membership is free.

Which services are free?

• Social network: connect to friends, write messages, share posts
• Create and join groups
• Create and join events
• Create company pages
• Contribute to challenges by submitting your solutions
• Create an Idea project to share your visions and discuss ideas

What services does SWIP charge for?

• Create a challenge
• Tickets sold over SWIP/Events

How do I get paid for my awarded challenge submissions?
Prize money will be paid by bank transfer to the account designated by you, by PayPal or by credit card.

How does SWIP charge for their services?

• Online shop with credit card
• Bill, to be paid by wire transfer or Paypal

Can you help me find a job?
At the moment we do not have any “jobs”. But stand by; one of the coming features will be job postings just as you can find them on Upwork or Peopleperhour!
We have job ads, but we also offer several projects where you can earn money. Our clients are looking for solutions to their challenges. If you hand in good solutions, you can earn an award. Please go through the projects and read through the project terms. To do so, sign up for free and go to “Discover Projects”. Maybe this will open opportunities for your further professional live, as references in your CV or via contacts you get when submitting genius solutions.

How can I earn money with swip
Have a look at the projects we published: https://www.swip.world/projects. You can contribute to these projects by submitting your solution. If your solution solves the problem best and wins the challenge, you will receive an award. Please read each project description carefully as they describe the terms and requirements.

What is a “Challenge Project”?
A Challenge is a competition where someone or a company, here called challenge owner- is looking for solutions or ideas. The challenge owner is in charge of texting and moderating the challenge. Users can submit contributions (solution or idea) until the deadline of the challenge closes. Then, the challenge owner or a per-defined jury awards the prizes to the winners. The winners will be informed by and will receive their prize money from swip.world. All announcements will be done public via the homepage of swip.world.

The problem description is not clear. Whom can I ask my questions?
Please write your questions in the comment section of the project page. The swip.team will soon answer your question.

Which challenges can I contribute to?
You may submit your contributions to any challenge project you have access to.

I have a great idea that solves a challenge. Where should I send it to?
Please use the “Submit your solution” button on the project page. You will be able to write a description of your idea as well as upload corresponding files.

What happens with my idea or solutions if I don’t win?
For any contribution and activities you earn contribution points. We will participate users with the most contribution points on the financial success of swip.world. The exact mechanism is currently being defined.

Challenges/Competitions are not fair! My work needs to be paid.
Challenges and Freelance do not share the same nature. Often Freelance Jobs have a clear set of tasks and the client knows exactly what has to be done and how then you get paid for what people ordered from you. Our competitions are no request for freelance. For our clients, if they have a problem to solve, they use challenges with money awards. So they get a variety of solutions and concepts and the best solution wins, the others receive no monetary reward. This is the nature of challenges.
Why companies use challenges instead of freelance, one reason may be, they got stock with their engineering crew or they simply want fresh ideas from outside the box. They believe there is someone out there in the crowd who can solve the challenge or has a cool idea.
For some challenges just ideas are needed, take a few minutes to think about a challenge and write a couple of lines to get the sparkling idea.  For challenges with higher prize money, the requested concepts are serious work. For many freelancers these competitions are a great opportunity to show their creativity. They even may win in addition contracts, over offers they provide – if asked for.

I have an idea…
If it’s an idea related to a challenge we published, please submit your idea by clicking on “Add my solution”.

If you have a new idea, a good way to start is to create your own “Idea project”: https://www.swip.world/projects/ideas/new
Describe your idea and what kind of support you need to move forward. Other users will see your idea and rate it. Maybe some will be interested in joining your project. This is public, thus only share as many details as you feel comfortable to share publicly. This allows you to receive feedback, as other users can see your idea, write comments and rate your idea. If you’d like to keep it more confidential for now, let’s talk and see how we can help you.

Will you sell my ideas?
Please start by creating your own “Idea project”: https://www.swip.world/projects/ideas/new
This is public, thus only share as many details as you feel comfortable to share publicly and only if you are sure that you don’t have the time or will to persue the idea yourself. Once you’ve received feedback from other users and your idea is confirmed to be a good one, we can offer you to get in touch with appropriate companies on your behalf. The terms for this need to be negotiated, we don’t have a standard contract for this yet. Let us know if you’re interested in such a cooperation.

How do you arrange to pay the contributors if their ideas generate money?
There are 3 possibilities:

1. If the idea comes as reply to a customer challenge, we distribute the prize money among the winners as announced in that challenge.
2. If the Idea is posted publicly and turns out to be really new and lots of users like it. We will talk to potential producers and offer them help to develop it. Whatever they pay us we will share with the user who brought the idea and in some cases also with the user who gave the best input to make the idea work. As we just started the platform we haven’t worked out a standard procedure yet, so we will have to work out a deal when it starts working and then standardize based on the experience made.
3. We are developing a virtual coach that will help you to get your idea conceptualized, without any other person seeing it. At some point we will show you companies that might be interested in your concept and offer you to work out a deal with them on your behalf and we share what the company pays with you. At that point we will work out a deal with you before we contact them.

Who would be the owner of the idea and for how long time?
Again there is 3 possibilities:

1. If it came in reply to a customer challenge it belongs to the customer if they paid you the prize, otherwise the Intellectual Property remains yours.
2. If you posted it publicly it becomes public knowledge and belongs to whoever does something with it. But not all services that are successful are IP protected but success simply comes from excellent marketing and customer service. So if it is used by a corporation that we contacted and helped to further develop it for them, we will share the payments we receive with the user that brought the idea. But it is possible that someone has the idea too or just executes it without our help, so we cannot guarantee anything for those ideas that are posted publicly.
3. If it is developed in the private project lounge with the virtual coach (still under development) it remains the users IP for as long as we don’t agree to a deal to promote it for the user.

Is my innovative idea submitted in this platform safe from being stolen or copied by others?

At the moment we can’t give you much protection. You should share only as much as you feel comfortable. You could explain your concept on a high level but omit details, until you built a personal relationship. Are you aware that 97% of all patents never make any money and more than 90 million EU patent registrations never get patented because they are not followed through? Having an Idea is the easy part. Having the determination and tenacity to execute it, find supporters, partners investors etc. is what does the trick. We aim to help you with exactly that. Stay tuned for the virtual coach and many other features that we are building to help you to make your vision come true. At the moment our prototype only provides for Idea Challenges where you can challenge the crowd to solve a problem, or you can post your idea to get feedback, encouragement and tips for execution. Some people have cool Ideas and they know that they will never be able to execute it, but they would love to see the idea come true. We will pick up the good ideas that people want to see come true and find corporations who may want to execute it and reward the one who gave the idea. For those who want to keep the critical aspects of their idea secret but find help for execution, we are developing amazing tools and features, which we hope to be able to launch soon.

Which trackers are you using?

• We use Google Analytics to create anonymous statistics in order to improve the user experience.
• We use LinkedIn Insight to analyze which LinkedIn campaigns are most effective.
• On the login page, we integrate Facebook and LinkedIn tags, which you can choose to use or not.
• Intercom is integrated (in the bottom right of each page) to allow you to get in touch with us easily.

Tell me more about your company

We’re a Swiss company called Swiss Innovation Pool. Our vision is to create a lot of jobs by enabling innovations. We believe that many people around the world have great ideas and visions, that’s why we want to help them by providing resources such as coaching, teaming up with other persons, funding and tools. There’s still a long way to go, but we invite you to join our movement!

Is this website legal/legitimate?

That is clearly written by our Terms of Use. Finally we’re a company that also needs to follow the law.

Edit a proposal

When you click “Save” you can either just continue working in the same form, or continue later by navigating to “Projects” -> “Manage” -> Click on your draft -> Edit.

What are the requirements to submit a solution?

This is described in the projects. If there is nothing specified, just feel free. Please always read the project description carefully. Sometimes, a template with questions is provided when submitting a solution – these should, of course, be answered.

What is the minimum age to be allowed to participate?

You are eligible to use the Website if you are an individual of at least 16 years of age or a legal entity capable of validly entering into binding contracts. If for any reason, including limitations set by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction of your residence, domicile or corporate registration, you are not capable of entering into a binding contract, you may not use the Website. If you are a minor in your jurisdiction, you must receive the approval of your parental authority before starting to use the Website.

Can you help with funding?

At the moment we can’t help with funding. But you might find some investors for you project. Ideally you would start an Idea Project. If you need help, just tell me. See here or below for more information: https://about.swip.world/en/faq/

Do you have an SWIP App?

Yes, we have an app for our platform. At the moment only the social network part is implemented. The project functionality will follow as soon as funding is ready.

Why is the language of this website English?

The language of this website is English because this is the easiest for a global site. Some parts are also available in German. I suggest you to use Google Translator for translating to any other language: https://translate.google.ch/

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