It's like Tinder but for open source
Help me validate my SaaS idea!
https://lookingforpullrequests.carrd.co/
https://lookingforpullrequests.carrd.co/
My background: developer that spends his personal coding time on personal IP. I have never thoroughly explored contributing to open source projects, but am becoming more interested. Out of my last 1,614 commits counted by GitHub (a lot more really since most PRs merged as squash-commits) only 26 commits are public.
As a developer, I quite like it. The idea of getting some tailored recommendations for free sounds worth it to me. I am wondering how you are going to tailor the recommendations? If you would do so by looking through my public commit history, it would probably be way off. If you had an optional survey, I would be inclined to fill it out if it got me some interesting recommendations.
As a member of a small (~30 person) US-based software development agency that is in growth mode, I really like this mainly for recruitment purposes. We have a few open source projects that support our client and private development efforts, and these open source projects are written in languages and stacks that we use in-shop. We recently open-sourced them, so nearly all commits come from in-house. If we could pay $10 to get our open source projects in front of people, maybe (1) the projects get contributors, (2) we get inquiries regarding our open positions, and/or (3) we reach out to contributors to apply.
As for your first question, my plan was to let you, as a developer, pick your interests instead of "guessing" them based on your commit history. Meaning, letting you pick things like preferred languages, size of the project and so on. Once you've selected your initial set of preferences, your likes and follows (of projects) would also influence your recommendations.
Glad to know that the startup option would also be interesting! All the feedback I've received so far has been from developers, you're the first one validating the business plan as a whole, so thanks for taking the time to do so!
Use that revenue to fund free listings for FOSS projects forever?!