Where can I post software challenges and offer prizes as a way to outsource some work?

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Published on 2011-06-28T13:04:17Z Indexed on 2011/06/28 16:30 UTC
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My apologies if this is off-topic, I thought this question suits this site better than stackoverflow.

We have a few rather small and bounded problems in my company that we would love to outsource. Since they are very similar to challenges ("prove this and this can be done" rather than "supply the code"), we thought of posting them as challenges and offer prizes to the first guys who will crack them up.

The outsourcing sites I know off (TopCoder, ODesk) are more interested in long term contracts with monthly pay. Is there a site better matching my needs out there?

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