Comfy launches $10,000 contest to open-source rebuilds of Higgsfield apps
A Comfy blog post says Higgsfield promised to open-source its entire platform but did not, so Comfy is running a competition for the best open-source rebuilds of apps such as Genjutsu and Cinema Studio, with entries required to publish a repo anyone can run and fork. The grand prize is $10,000 in cash, plus three category awards — Most Innovative, Most Viral and Open Weights Only — each worth a GeForce RTX 5090, and 10 runner-ups receiving $250 in Comfy Credits. Partner bonuses include $2,000 cash for workflows built on LTX, FLUX API credits for workflows centered on FLUX3, and $1,000 in MiniMax API credits for MiniMax H3-based builds; the effort is backed by NVIDIA AI, Runpod, LTX, Black Forest Labs and MiniMax, with in-person build sessions in San Francisco (Oct 28) and Los Angeles (Oct 29).
It is an open-source community's public answer to a closed platform's unfulfilled open-source pledge, using prizes and hardware to push for working, reproducible alternatives.