I'm pretty new to 99designs, and was considering using it to make some extra cash... but of course you don't always win.. in fact some competitions end with no winner chosen, even after perhaps hundreds of man-hours have been spent in total on entries.

I was thinking if you could indicate for each of your entries the time spent, for your own personal record, and that the website would work out your 'hourly rate' based on entries submitted and contests won.

Hopefully over time as your designs improve you'll see an increase in your rate, upping your enthusiasm for the site.

You can also use that data to find out if a particular contest runner has racked up hundreds of hours in submissions with zero payout.

I thought I'd also ask the question, has anyone already been keeping track of their time vs profit on 99designs? It would be great to get anyone's feedback on that.