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What is your comment about? Is it all volunteer work?

They were experimenting with reverse auctions on software contracts, and the first contract went for $1. http://www.brendansudol.com/writing/18f-micropurchase/

Looks like the person who won that reverse auction did a follow up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10570069

Yes, that was linked to in the comment you're replying to.