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Gitcoin has solved this problem! https://gitcoin.co/ https://gitcoin.co/

cube00 4y ago
A selection from their subreddit linked off their homepage should be enough to warn you about how they can get funding for open source projects where the regular market can't. - One day you will look back at these prices and think "I cant believe it was so cheap" - These prices are a dream. Already bought a big bag on discount. See you guys in 2 years. - When will Gitcoin reach 500$ Much like crypto praying on people in desperate financial situations, I really hope hard working open source developers are not left holding the bag if this coin goes under.
fphhotchips 4y ago
... Has it though? The problem here isn't that the tech doesn't exist to support open source. It's that companies don't care to. There's no budget because there's no clear business benefit. Using advertising adds some level of business benefit for the funder, but probably represents an untenable decline in user experience for the fundee. Gitcoin seems to actually make the problem worse through quadratic matching, so if I have a specific thing I want to fund well because my business relies on it, Gitcoin is the worst possible way for me to do that because my cash will flow through to a bunch of stuff lots of other people care about (but idgaf).
- NickNaraghi 4y ago
  I know HN hates web3, but I invite you to look at little bit deeper: http://gitcoin.co/results http://gitcoin.co/results
  - fphhotchips 4y ago
    Ok so, again, my point here is that Open Source funding isn't a technical problem that can be solved by a technical solution (and that I think quadratic matching is stupid for funding solutions to high-impact problems). But, I did look at that, and I'm not sure that I trust the numbers. I clicked around a little. The top earner for the week is https://gitcoin.co/0xngmi https://gitcoin.co/0xngmi. 0xngmi is working a crypto project (fine), but seems to have only received one bounty and one 10 DAI tip ever. So how are they the top earner for the week? The top earner for the quarter is an NFP Crypto lobby group. They've earned $855k... somehow? Over 13 tips and 13 bounties? What do you mean 13 bounties? Does this Lobby group also fix Django bugs on the weekend? I'm not saying I don't think it's a good idea; although I'm wary of anything Crypto, this might be the closest I've seen to a reasonable use for it. I just don't know that I trust the numbers.

A selection from their subreddit linked off their homepage should be enough to warn you about how they can get funding for open source projects where the regular market can't. - One day you will look back at these prices and think "I cant believe it was so cheap" - These prices are a dream. Already bought a big bag on discount. See you guys in 2 years. - When will Gitcoin reach 500$ Much like crypto praying on people in desperate financial situations, I really hope hard working open source developers are not left holding the bag if this coin goes under.

fphhotchips 4y ago

... Has it though? The problem here isn't that the tech doesn't exist to support open source. It's that companies don't care to. There's no budget because there's no clear business benefit. Using advertising adds some level of business benefit for the funder, but probably represents an untenable decline in user experience for the fundee. Gitcoin seems to actually make the problem worse through quadratic matching, so if I have a specific thing I want to fund well because my business relies on it, Gitcoin is the worst possible way for me to do that because my cash will flow through to a bunch of stuff lots of other people care about (but idgaf).

NickNaraghi 4y ago
I know HN hates web3, but I invite you to look at little bit deeper: http://gitcoin.co/results http://gitcoin.co/results
- fphhotchips 4y ago
  Ok so, again, my point here is that Open Source funding isn't a technical problem that can be solved by a technical solution (and that I think quadratic matching is stupid for funding solutions to high-impact problems). But, I did look at that, and I'm not sure that I trust the numbers. I clicked around a little. The top earner for the week is https://gitcoin.co/0xngmi https://gitcoin.co/0xngmi. 0xngmi is working a crypto project (fine), but seems to have only received one bounty and one 10 DAI tip ever. So how are they the top earner for the week? The top earner for the quarter is an NFP Crypto lobby group. They've earned $855k... somehow? Over 13 tips and 13 bounties? What do you mean 13 bounties? Does this Lobby group also fix Django bugs on the weekend? I'm not saying I don't think it's a good idea; although I'm wary of anything Crypto, this might be the closest I've seen to a reasonable use for it. I just don't know that I trust the numbers.