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Have you noticed any interest in this for non-junior devs? As I rusty, old Ruby on Rails developer, I'd love to be able to be hired for single features.

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We get this request often and personally I would love see this happen! I know quite a few senior devs who want to contribute reviewing PRs or contribute in the tech stacks they love with no strings attached.

The reason we have not done that is because we get all devs to commit full time on the platform, and thats a deal breaker for senior devs. Part time doesnt work well for juniors to reasonable grow on the platform, but I can defn see that working for seniors.

Curiously, how you do see your normal day look like if you could something like GitStart on the side as a part time senior?

For me as a mid-level rust and senior typescript dev, I already run my own contracts so this would be a nice way to do some work in between bigger contracts.

I would probably not do it for the money (cant imagine it would pay 150USD/h), but mostly to keep exposure to new codebases, ideas, challenges.

I think you should target this offering at people that already do contracting at first, though I think I would miss the opportunity to talk with the team. It is hard to make big changes (expected of senior folks) without design meetings and coordination.

As a contractor I like having a really flexible schedule and sometimes that means I have an extra half day available here and there. Sometimes my family is out of town or I'm out of town alone and I have extra capacity during nights and weekends that I would enjoy building a feature.

Also, I go through periods where I only want to work 8-16 hours a week, but even most contract work I find is full time.

So really for me this would allow for more liquidity in my contract work.

I’d be interested in this as well! To answer your question, I imagine a list of tasks available to work on which I can pick up tasks from whenever I have time.

Perhaps you might be interested in Algora https://algora.io/ ?

I came across them on HN about 2 weeks ago [1] and they serve the needs of COSS (commercial open source software) projects but they seem to be bootstrapped unlike GitStart.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36834686

I see more interest on this than I expected!

In the last month, we have rejected quite a few tickets that may have been easily tackled by a senior dev. Including technical documentation for infra, K8S, CLI agents to collect runtime traces, fixing flaky E2E tests and so on.

Hola at me if you are interested! (email in bio)

If you do tackle this, hopefully you’ll make it easy for (senior) devs to dip in, similar to Algora https://algora.io/.

They had their Show HN about 4 months ago: Show HN: Algora – Paid open-source contributions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412226

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