Community bounties update:
Maintainers get 50% of the total bounty fee
They can use the balance to pay out org members and create new bounties
🤔 What do you think about this model?
👀
💎 Create bounty anywhere:
#opensource
thank you
@GreekAnalyst
for spotting us early - exactly 1 year ago!
at the time we had just 3 rewarded
#opensource
bounties by
@Remotion
since then, we’ve helped award 876 bounties ($94k+) to 265 contributors from 53 countries! 🎉
🇬🇷 Greece is still absent. Let’s fix this!
Spotted
#3
: is building a marketplace platform for open source bounties, or what they describe as “uber for coding”. Interesting concept and cool UI.
Startup is co-founded by Ioannis R. Florokapis from 🇬🇷 and
@zzzcesur
from 🇹🇷.
✨ OSS Interviews
#18
@dimagrossman
founder of
@novuhq
💻 Notifications Infrastructure for developers
⭐ 21,000 stars on Github —
✍️ship a cloud version early
🧑🌾 building community is like growing a garden
🎥 52min:
#opensource
Crowdfunding development with community bounties
Voting with cash helps the project become sustainable while the maintainer focuses on users’ needs
💎👉
Hope this helps! This is what the experience looks like.
I've learned to accept that every project requires funding, even though it's tough for me. 😓
This approach is much better than relying on venture capital. Or am I wrong? 🤔
#buildinpublic
137 bounties (😱 $26,600) awarded by
@jdegoes
in
@zioscala
💎 52 more bounties available!
🙌 most recent one included a $500 community bounty by
@cal_fern
on behalf of
💻
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Join us today for a Live Review of the TSPerf Bounty solution by
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💎 $1,000 community bounty
@rustdesk
🙋 funded by user 'wrjcs' to resolve a bug
📈 total bounty is now $1,300
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🌎🌍🌏 bounty payouts with Stripe & Alipay
create community bounties
👉
👉
#opensource
#rust
for
@calcom
we're rolling out larger bounties for so called "Challenges" think of them as ongoing hackathon-styled projects that have a larger cash bounty
if you start a reasonable COSS business around it, I will invest $10k as your first check personally!
I'll be streaming on the brand new
@algoraio
TV platform in half an hour about my contributions to
@calcom
,
@tailcallhq
, and
@mendableai
, how I got started, my ideal setup for contributing, and more... See you there!
"You learn how to go through a review process, you learn how to collaborate, you learn how to document your changes and write Git commits that are meaningful. You learn how to follow a style guide. You learn all these skills that you just cannot learn by working alone."
Introducing ✨ In-video AdSense
Livestream monetization
Add OBS overlay. Make $$ every stream
It's like a Live Billboard in your screen
@danielcroe
@heyandras
earlier today
as seen on Twitch, YouTube, LinkedIn, X
@heyandras
what if you get paid from solving user-funded bounties?
users can support you to ship features they care about
💎👉
maintainers of
@DrizzleORM
(also free) do this
bounties are pooled when created on the same issue
@didier_lopes
@openbb_finance
🤩 Didier describes OpenBB's story, launch,
@OSSCapital
investment, becoming a CEO, building product and growing an ecosystem
😎 he discusses the superpowers of open source, recounts the first PR from a contributor & shares his advice to fellow founders
for
@calcom
we're rolling out larger bounties for so called "Challenges" think of them as ongoing hackathon-styled projects that have a larger cash bounty
if you start a reasonable COSS business around it, I will invest $10k as your first check personally!
To follow up on this.
In less than a month, weartist on GitHub implemented this feature (with help from
@conradirwin
) and got it merged. I just paid $500 cash money as promised through
@algoraio
.
I wish this was way more of a _thing_ in open source.
Internet drops during livestream & board meeting 😱
@glcst
survives it and rejoins
@aarondfrancis
!
happens to everyone, don't let that fear prevent you from livestreaming on ! it's now faster than both YouTube and X ⚡️
it's like buying insurance.
company avoids costs of bad hire
the time, overhead, money and output lost
while failing, firing and hiring again
both sides test run working together
if not hired, work was done & paid
if hired, productive on day 0
that's why paid trials /