GitPals – Find team for cooperative development

And maybe we could introduce some kind of tokens to keep track of the size of the tasks so that you don’t end up spending way too much time on a task in exchange for little work from them. And maybe we could have multiple potential partners bid on how many tokens each task should take so that you can get efficient pricing. And that would also take care of relative availability of some types of skills vs others (e.g. almost anyone can do basic copy editing but relatively few people can create a novel compiler optimization). And maybe we could also allow you to cash out your tokens at some point. In fact why don’t we make one token equal $1 to make pricing simple. And to monetize this whole project it would be good to add the ability to promote your particular listings, like an ad platform. In other words it becomes Craigslist but cool, right? :)

My point in writing all that is that soon as you take an idea like this and say “and if we only add feature X we could have a bartering economy” my mind immediately goes to the fact that a bartering economy has a ton of drawbacks which is why we no longer use them anywhere. I see people romanticizing it as if it’s much better than our current system, but accounting with it is much harder, pricing is nearly impossible, and there are few penalties for non-payment since a transaction might take a really long time to get settled (at least as long as it takes to complete the longest task). Basically these kinds of projects seem to work only so long as they stay at a manageable size while also keeping an enthusiastic community involved. If you grow, you need economy which leads to all the stuff I outlined above.

Couldn't agree more. I don't have the time right now to commit to another project, but I always love picking off a quick task if it's helpful.

As proof, GitPals posted[0] their own project on GitPals. The sole comment mentions that they're looking for help auditing their JWT implementation. This is a sufficiently small and well-scoped task, and so I did[1]! I admittedly opened GitPals with no expectation of contributing, but the ask was small enough that it seemed reasonable.

[0] https://www.gitpals.com/projects/GitPals

[1] https://github.com/danmoop/GitPals/issues/8

Be careful what you wish for?

No seriously. This seems like it's about to come true in a not so pleasant way.

> Wouldn't have to be a peer - you could have someone offshore keeping an eye on a bunch of people at a time, ready to yell at them.

you'll be happy to hear this already exists, and is getting more popular by the day! it's called ceos outsourcing labor

I read this in a comment on HN, but you could record yourself as if you're live coding, which has been just as effective for me at preventing procrastination and helps me stay focused, and even provides my own rubber ducking :D

I'm working on something close. You can create a team by combining any number of contributors, from any repository and start tracking their activity.

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/contributors

Edit: Not sure if my server can survive, but you play with the server on your own machine if you have docker installed.

$> docker run --rm -d -p 3347:3347 gitsense/gitsense-server

You can add a repo by connecting to the docker container

$> docker exec -ti <container id> bash

$ your docker container> add-repo github github super-linter

And track indexing by going to the admin tool

http://<your docker host machine>:3347/admin (username: admin, password: admin)

To set a token, execute in your container

set-token github <your token>

I could swear I read somewhere about an app where you share a severely scaled down (or maybe slightly blurred?) version of your desktop throughout the entire workday.

I would allow your mate to sense the situation when you could be more available for chatting/socializing/etc.

My google-fu is failing me, I think I saw it ~2019 but cannot find anything now.

And of course the focusmate seems to be still a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352305

Are you serious? This sounds truly awful.

I think something like this exists, where you can schedule time with someone to work over video so that you can stay focused. I've seen it mentioned before on here but I don't remember the name.

I’ve been working on a project to facilitate brainstorming sessions around a specific use-case and target user. It’s very much an MVP right now, but I’d be willing to share what I’ve built so far if you wouldn’t mind offering some feedback.

there is founderslist for startup ideas https://founderslist.com/