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Well, yes, actually I'm building http://issuehunter.co at TechPeaks[1].

What do you think about it? Are you using it?

Time for firefox and chrome plugins that show the dollar value on a specific issue right on github, or whatever sites you support. Make it so I can add 10 dollars to an issue I care about, and add a "Sort by money" thing.

Great idea. At Bountysource.com we have a plugin for GitHub that automatically updates issues with bounty details when they exist (adds a link to the bounty in the issue body, bounty total to issue title and a special label). This needs to be installed by a project committer though. I'd love to see a Bountysource Chrome/Firefox extension, maybe we should put a bounty out for one :P

I hadn't seen this. Looks interesting but kinda strange they went with the kickstarter design.

I had wanted to build a funding platform for open source as well but I don't think a bounty board is the right way to do it anymore.

The other people I have seen taking a stab at the idea are:

https://github.com/flatiron-school/gitbo

Repo seems stale now so they might have given up.

Another one: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/