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Show HN: I built a bug bounty platform for open source development

1 points by themanmaran 6y ago

themanmaran 6y ago
Been working on rysolv for about 9 months now and finally got it out the door! Anyone can import an issue to the site and contribute towards the bounty. Whoever submits a pull request closing out the issue earns the bounty. My main goal is to bring some more support into open source development, and to encourage new people to contribute to projects. Would love to hear any feedback on the site, or bugs people find!
- verdverm 6y ago
  Make it something embedded into GitHub/Lab that we already use today, rather than forcing us to duplicate on some other platform. ZenHub is a great example of this.
  - themanmaran 6y ago
    Right now the issues are mirrors of the issue on Github. And the site keeps track of pull requests submitted for those issues. We're trying to make a more general purpose platform (Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, etc.) So I don't want to totally embed the product into Github. But ideally once you register on the site, you should be able to do everything else on Github.
    - verdverm 6y ago
      My point is that I'm not going to migrate away from GitHub and I don't want to add more places to deal with code. Everyone is there and you are unlikely to create something substantially better enough to cause the ecosystem to migrate. Addons need to interop with the established places users host their code. Watch how GitHub Actions is eating CircleCi and TravisCI for lunch. These platforms have becoming increasingly user hostile and I see tons of people migrating over to the GitHub embedded solution, despite it being buggy at times. I've personally tried Google's mirrored solution and have been disappointed by it and now have the GHA migration in my queue.
      - themanmaran 6y ago
        I think there is just a misunderstanding in how the site works. There is no code being hosted on rysolv. The code and issues are on Github, and users can go to rysolv to add a bounty on those issues.

1 points by themanmaran 6y ago

Been working on rysolv for about 9 months now and finally got it out the door! Anyone can import an issue to the site and contribute towards the bounty. Whoever submits a pull request closing out the issue earns the bounty. My main goal is to bring some more support into open source development, and to encourage new people to contribute to projects. Would love to hear any feedback on the site, or bugs people find!

verdverm 6y ago
Make it something embedded into GitHub/Lab that we already use today, rather than forcing us to duplicate on some other platform. ZenHub is a great example of this.
- themanmaran 6y ago
  Right now the issues are mirrors of the issue on Github. And the site keeps track of pull requests submitted for those issues. We're trying to make a more general purpose platform (Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, etc.) So I don't want to totally embed the product into Github. But ideally once you register on the site, you should be able to do everything else on Github.
  - verdverm 6y ago
    My point is that I'm not going to migrate away from GitHub and I don't want to add more places to deal with code. Everyone is there and you are unlikely to create something substantially better enough to cause the ecosystem to migrate. Addons need to interop with the established places users host their code. Watch how GitHub Actions is eating CircleCi and TravisCI for lunch. These platforms have becoming increasingly user hostile and I see tons of people migrating over to the GitHub embedded solution, despite it being buggy at times. I've personally tried Google's mirrored solution and have been disappointed by it and now have the GHA migration in my queue.
    - themanmaran 6y ago
      I think there is just a misunderstanding in how the site works. There is no code being hosted on rysolv. The code and issues are on Github, and users can go to rysolv to add a bounty on those issues.