How it works
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From a phone call to a pocket full of cookies.
Grandma runs a tight kitchen. Here is the whole recipe.
1. You pick a project
Anything you want to build with code. A website, an app, a game, a tool. Grandma never picks what. She is a lovable tyrant, not a project manager.
2. Grandma phones
You tell her what you are building. She reaches into the cookie jar and pulls out a note: a demand. Each demand is an annoying rule about how you build, like "only two colors" or "it has to work with the internet unplugged".
You get at least 1 demand and at most 3. Do not like them? Ask Grandma to deal again. All about demands.
3. You build
As long as it takes: half an hour or ten days, on your own. There is no time limit on a project. Hackatime counts your hours while you code. Set it up first, or Grandma has no proof you did anything. If you change your mind while building, you can change the idea, name, kind, or demands from your project page before handing it in.
4. You submit
One ship per round. The moment you hand a project in you may start the next one: it does not wait for the reviewers. You can have several projects handed in and waiting at once. The checklist.
5. You earn cookies, or you fix it
Cookies are what you get for hours you shipped. Spicier demands and a project Grandma loves make each hour worth more. Grandma tells you each result herself, one at a time, the next time you visit. The payouts page has a calculator to play with.
Not every project is approved the first time. A reviewer who is not happy asks for changes and writes what to change. Grandma reads it to you, no cookies are paid for that round, and you fix the project whenever you like and hand it in again. A project usually gets at most 3 rounds, and only the round that is approved pays. The rules have the details.
6. You spend them, or you go again
The Pantry sells Hack Club Bank grants, not parcels. Grandma does not post anything, dear, she has a bad hip. How the shop works.
You can have only one project in the works at a time, but build as many as you like. The moment you hand one in, you can talk to Grandma about the next.
Note
The program as a whole will have an end date, and Grandma will announce it well before it. Projects are reviewed in the order they are handed in, and there is no fixed date.