Comment by jaimefjorge | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jaimefjorge | Hacker News Reader

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Thank you for your encouragement!

The idea of the submit > payment > success is that it should be easy for devs to get started sending problems. In the background, however, you will be able to specify a number of requirements and details for each task. For instance, for every problem we try to detail a solution for it. For more complex tasks, some more discussing will be required.

However, given the small problems that we are getting and the awesome description capabilities of the people sending them, this is surprisingly cool.

However, we still have a long way to go. Just to be able to help people out with their work is already a very cool thing for us.

Thank you for your constructive opinion and the references.

I would limit the problem domain so that delegation is easier.

    1) submit unit tests in format XYZ
    2) tests pass
    3) receive code

Generate high level reports off of submitted code (kloc, cyclomatic, whathavs).

Another one would be

Design the urls for a REST interface and the JSON responses, worker implements code to support REST using framework A/B/C.

Or, implement algorithm in paper FOO using Python, Julia or Ocaml, should be able to read this dataset...

It has to be fairly constrained or else it is hard to specify and complete projects. They should come back within the same order of magnitude that one would complete them in anyway w/o either party being overworked.

One could also, instead of money, implement it as a sort of quid-pro-quo, I see a simple task (for me) that I could knock out, this gives me credits to spend on other projects. Virtual currency of code.

Also, licensing is an issue. I wouldn't want to work on code I couldn't keep. This just seems wrong to me. The only way I am ok with it, is if the rates are really high and that doesn't seem amenable to a site like this.

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