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This model worked really well for me and several others some time ago - but the conditions for that may not translate to your project and other not-so-popular o

This model worked really well for me and several others some time ago - but the conditions for that may not translate to your project and other not-so-popular ones. I loved finding feature requests for rocket chat on bounty source years ago - this gave use lowly users the ability to crowdsource how ideas should be implemented and crowdfund them. I found many other people who really wanted to add the option for 'login without email addy or registration' and to hook that login into permissions options already established. Together we put in over $600 I think, which I believed would be a pretty simply code chunk to add. That amount got the attention of a coder who knew the rocket chat system and decided he could get it done in a short enough time to make it good money per hour for him and he put it together and it went to code review and they added it! I started to imagine how powerful this could be for wordpress and similar - but some story broke about bounty-source that made it fade - like said elsewhere in thread https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neolog https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neolog , don't recall what it was at this moment either. With wordpress you can kind of do this - but it's less crowdsourcing and more try your luck with codeable or freelancer or whatever - and you won't get a code review from the core WP team, and it likely won't become part of 'core' so you'll have to maintain updates, breaking code and security and crap all on your own - but it's kind of an option nonetheless. I have really wanted to do this with matrix/synapse / fluffy/element - as there are important mods I think should be implemented immediately - and they already have a roadmap with priorities and those are gonna take a while. So I think for popular projects with lots of users it can be a boon for features being developed and it could work out good for everyone. Your project may not have enough people with eyes on for the same kind of thing. Maybe hiring a contractor that gets subcontractors to take care of the small things for you would be better at this time? I'd love to see a bountysource reborn with variable options, and glad to see others mention similar portals that I am eager to take a look at. If I had a big project going, I'd like to be able to make an 'official page' on a portal like so that could setup revenue splits as well - as I can imagine it would be easy to get overwhelmed with new code chunks being sent and it would take time and money to review security and how things in this new chunk could affect other things and all that. I'd also put up a page where people could vote a thumbs up, as well as the vote with held in escrow dollars that I enjoyed with b-source time ago.. I'd consider giving users who bought a premium copy or pay for premium cloud or whatever to get 20 'super likes' per renewal so they could collectively vote up feature requests.. often I/we/I notice others, are quite surprised at what they users want most while we work on features we think are most important. last note - with you coming out with a premium version in the future - as a 'bounty coder' or funder - I might feel slighted paying or coding for open source with the premium version coming at a later time - I think it's important to note that boldly so no one is surprised by it - and offer a guarantee that code will still be available - like wordpress does. I'd hate to spend time or money on something that was set to take advantage of that and then wall off and drop everyone ala fbook and google with xmpp kind of situation.

themanmaran 6y ago
Hey, I'd love to hear what you think about http://rysolv.com/ http://rysolv.com/ Still pretty early stage development. But we're building out some project management / crowdsourcing side to the application as well.
- stevenicr 6y ago
  Quick scan, seems like the kind of thing I would like to use - as putting bounties on issues and putting up money for them is great. The ability to crowd source this is even better. However as rysolv is right now, the first two lines keep me glued, the third line: "Import an issue from Github that you think needs more attention. This can be one of your issues, or from a project you support." I'm lost. I start to scroll a bit.. the next section with pics - I have to squint to try to see what they are about.. I see the text to the left is talking about github this and language specific to git.. so it's not for me. I've been publishing web sites since around 2003, I do ftp, cpanel, directadmin, plesk, some linuxes stuff, php.. been modding wordpress sites since it first cam out, css.. But I don't git (yet).. I have hit github hundreds of times since so many people link to stuff there - and I eventually figured out how to download a package from there a couple times - but the layout makes me want to pull my hair out, and how it really works I don't know yet - and me wanting to give money to developers shouldn't be impeded by me now understanding git terminology and navigation. I was able to quickly see a list of stuff on bountysource some years ago - and click to support issues presented there - and add some text and all that - and I think anyone without developer experience could chip in the same way. I'll eventually learn git,and hopefully find a way to skin it and remove the big box at the top begging me to sign up and probably enjoy how great it is one day - since everyone seems to like it - but I'm in no hurry, and I'm super busy already. So maybe it's a great presentation for those who know git on site and don't struggle to understand push, pull, issues, branches.. I still don't understand why some let me download a zip in a click and others have me looking for tabs - anyway - I'd maybe make the front page you have now as a how-to for developers looking to get paid to see how it works - and make a different how-to for people that want to get shit done and have some cash to throw at issues. There are plenty of people who have some dough to spend, and want features for apps, and have less tech experience than I have. I'd suggest a list of popular feature request, an easy way to search for feature requests other have posted.. and at the end of the search page a "new issue creator" (dang that git language sneaking in, perhaps "post a new..bug fix. feature request.." and have the search term they just used already filled out for the title.. then they could just add a few more details, hit a check box, and put in their email for confirmation.. or something like that.

themanmaran 6y ago

Hey, I'd love to hear what you think about http://rysolv.com/ http://rysolv.com/ Still pretty early stage development. But we're building out some project management / crowdsourcing side to the application as well.

stevenicr 6y ago
Quick scan, seems like the kind of thing I would like to use - as putting bounties on issues and putting up money for them is great. The ability to crowd source this is even better. However as rysolv is right now, the first two lines keep me glued, the third line: "Import an issue from Github that you think needs more attention. This can be one of your issues, or from a project you support." I'm lost. I start to scroll a bit.. the next section with pics - I have to squint to try to see what they are about.. I see the text to the left is talking about github this and language specific to git.. so it's not for me. I've been publishing web sites since around 2003, I do ftp, cpanel, directadmin, plesk, some linuxes stuff, php.. been modding wordpress sites since it first cam out, css.. But I don't git (yet).. I have hit github hundreds of times since so many people link to stuff there - and I eventually figured out how to download a package from there a couple times - but the layout makes me want to pull my hair out, and how it really works I don't know yet - and me wanting to give money to developers shouldn't be impeded by me now understanding git terminology and navigation. I was able to quickly see a list of stuff on bountysource some years ago - and click to support issues presented there - and add some text and all that - and I think anyone without developer experience could chip in the same way. I'll eventually learn git,and hopefully find a way to skin it and remove the big box at the top begging me to sign up and probably enjoy how great it is one day - since everyone seems to like it - but I'm in no hurry, and I'm super busy already. So maybe it's a great presentation for those who know git on site and don't struggle to understand push, pull, issues, branches.. I still don't understand why some let me download a zip in a click and others have me looking for tabs - anyway - I'd maybe make the front page you have now as a how-to for developers looking to get paid to see how it works - and make a different how-to for people that want to get shit done and have some cash to throw at issues. There are plenty of people who have some dough to spend, and want features for apps, and have less tech experience than I have. I'd suggest a list of popular feature request, an easy way to search for feature requests other have posted.. and at the end of the search page a "new issue creator" (dang that git language sneaking in, perhaps "post a new..bug fix. feature request.." and have the search term they just used already filled out for the title.. then they could just add a few more details, hit a check box, and put in their email for confirmation.. or something like that.