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Algora.io for OSS bounties!

Sure give it a try! If your project is cool I bet people will be eager to contribute regardless.

Anyone who wants to offer a bounty on GitHub can try https://algora.io

It’s an open source platform (built in Elixir) for sharing bounties, contract work and full-time jobs with open source engineers

I’m one of the founders, feel free to reach out [email protected]

you can use Algora.io (it’s open source) to cover 120+ countries for the bounty payout - it would be a fantastic showcase on our website (founder here)

we can create a page for you like we did for the $25k Rust Prettier Bounty https://prettier.algora.io

lmk if interested [email protected] good luck!

you can do exactly that with Algora.io

Contribute to open source, solve GitHub bounties, do contract work. See https://algora.io

Open source contribution history and interviewing with paid projects. See https://algora.io

Elixir Phoenix https://x.com/whizzaf/status/1916541502408323313

Contribute to open source!

A lot of OSS companies are currently hiring. Contribute to their codebase to stand out, get experience, network & improve your resume. Some also share feature bounties on GitHub (https://algora.io) so you can even make money in the process.

I know dozens of engineers who landed jobs within a few months by actively contributing to OSS.

I run a bounties platform (https://algora.io) and I've seen people who create bounties try to use some AI like Devin to solve them (@seveibar livestreamed trying it) just for fun and in all cases AI failed to solve the bounties.

A Rust project that rewarded 300+ bounties ($37k) is now building an AI coding agent with the aim to solve bounties on Algora - it's an interesting benchmark I guess.

Curious myself what the next years might look like, but from everything I've seen so far we're definitely not there yet.

Building https://Algora.io for this :) open sourcing the platform this week (built in Elixir).

our goal is to simplify OSS bounties, funding and contract work.

would love your input. it's an open source Upwork for developers.

It doesn't have to be thankless - some projects award bounties or contract their contributors (see https://algora.io). Similarly OP could compensate the maintainers for their help updating the software.

A new one just opened in Finland called FR8, saw Andreas Klinger share it on X, looks kinda neat.

duly noted, thank you for the feedback! you are right, can't infer readily, will fix!

hey dang, that was our first ever launch of this open source bounties platform and since then we proved out the concept, introduced many new features and grew the community.

I don't see how it's a dupe per the HN guidelines. could you please revise?

https://algora.io/bounties/new creating bounties on other people's repositories is super neat indeed! however it's also tricky and we didn't get it right the first time.

these 'community bounties' are now by default shared privately with the maintainers only, and maintainers can decide to complete the bounties themselves, share them with the contributors, or discard them. That way community bounties are never intrusive to maintainers' time, roadmap & governance while also acting as a sponsorship if accepted

I like how bounties added by different people get pooled on the same issue!

really appreciate it, thank you Jatin! best of luck with https://revert.dev & congrats for joining Git Round!

thank you felix!! really appreciate your feedback on our call yesterday, we're working on the updates we discussed!

Documenso.com tipping open source contributors <3

absolutely! you can see https://algora.io/bounties/t/rust or https://algora.io/bounties/t/typescript

the in-app dashboard does the same based on your github profile

yes you can https://algora.io/bounties/new however the maintainers need to accept it first

interviewed the CEO on the OSS founder podcast earlier this year :)

full interview (38min): https://youtube.com/watch?v=GBT7yp17P4Y

highlights (10min): https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVco_9E9no8

4) consider sharing your journey, challenges, accomplishments, product updates and demos on twitter, adding tags like #buildinpublic and #indiehacker helps. also periodically post on places like reddit in the form of 'this is who I am, this is the problem I experienced, this is the solution I have built so far, hope to hear your questions & feedback'

5) bootstrapping is super hard (doing it right now) and early on usually accompanied by some contract work on the side to sustain yourself until ramen profitability

happy to connect and point out some examples if it helps [email protected] best of luck!!

1) clickbaity title

2) the project never created or rewarded an open source development bounty

3) the post promotes bug bounties from a platform written in Zig that sponsors Zig

seems legit

thanks for your note :) most commercial open source projects use Typescript/Rust, and most projects on Algora are COSS

> If you haven't had the opportunity to work on large-scale projects...

open source projects/companies that pay contributors are oftentimes larger-scale

> Balancing such efforts with a full-time job can be challenging, as these undertakings can consume most, if not all, of your free time...

i'm asking whether some compensation could make contributing to open source less of a luxury for a lot of people (those with jobs but also those in the jobs market) and more of an accessible opportunity to publicly showcase your "true capabilities or the quality of your work"

it would be public contributions on your Github profile