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bountyfordevs.com

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Looking at the prices here, tells you how programming is a cheap and a non-rewarding profession, changing your car oil will cost you ~$50 for less than 30min labor, and it doesn’t even require any mental focus or anything, exploitation at its finest. I’m glad the bounties I do are strictly cybersec related, at least it pays well.

i wonder what the ratio of work done to money really transferred is. How many of these end with either 1) work was done right but requestor doesn't pay or 2) work was not done right but money is demanded

If I understand correctly you create a PR that claims the bounty and if it gets merged you automatically get the money. Isn't it like this?

However, I wonder how copying a PR prevented and claiming the bounty instead of the original author is prevented.

That doesn't really answer the OP claim -- what are the realities of this?

I like the idea and can think of many rewards I could post, but the hard problem remains: how do we guarantee fairness? The reward poster would be incentivized to be picky with accept, the submitter would want to minimize the work to receive the reward.

One common solution to problems like these are reputation based (eg. eBay) or 3rd party mediation. There are probably others, but I don't immediately see anything done towards this.

Something that could partially answer your question:

https://console.algora.io/

Seems like there’s a feed of submitted and awarded bounties. Although I agree the enforcement mechanism doesn't seem super strong.

This looks like a frontend to https://algora.io/

It's not obvious what's the relationship between these two sites.

Wow, that page completely locks up in Firefox.

the very last entry is showing

> Reward: $NaN

(I would link to it but the entries themselves do not appear to have any self-link which is :-( even though they all have the hand icon as if they are clickable)

I'd guess it's because there isn't a bounty amount rather some metrics https://github.com/getdozer/dozer/issues/1631#issuecomment-1...

and then something has gone off the rails about the accounting process since

  Trigger.dev
  24d ago
  Improve the OpenAI documentation
  Reward: $50

links to https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev-docs/issues/10 which is 404 (deleted? private? who knows)

Eric from Trigger.dev here. We moved the docs from a dedicated repo into our monorepo so that probably accounts for the above issue

zaf from algora.io here. looks like this person scraped the bounties from our site. we're not affiliated and we never ask folks to pay to share bounties

> we never ask folks to pay to share bounties

But you do take a steep cut 19% + 4% (Stripe)

"Never" is also not really true as you do charge $50/bounty for sharing "private bounties"

we charge the private bounty fee when your issue is resolved with a PR, not upfront

Great idea. You can’t ask for $10 to post a bounty though! You need more bounties on your site more than they need the nascent audience. You could add tinygrad bounties if you wish.

> You can’t ask for $10 to post a bounty though!

Especially when the bounty system isn't even theirs... It's just algora.io

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