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This is really cool. I haven't spent too much time on the site yet, but this kind of product will probably generate a ton of questions. It would be great to hav

This is really cool. I haven't spent too much time on the site yet, but this kind of product will probably generate a ton of questions. It would be great to have an FAQ page, but I couldn't find one. Some questions I thought off the bat: 1. Often, programming requires environment setup and access to sensitive connection details. Is this left up for each participant to decide or do you provide a solution to this problem? 2. I'd love to work on a bounty but I would prefer not to if several people are already attempting to solve it. Is there a way to find out how many people are actively solving a given bounty?

cinntaile 4y ago
2. So it's one of those platforms that let participants compete for a tiny prize pool? Why do people voluntarily do this, the pay is almost always shit even if you win. And if you don't you just wasted a lot of time and money (since you worked while you could have gotten a paid gig instead).
- danielvaughn 4y ago
  I have no idea, that's why I asked the question. From what I can see on their site, the price is offered up front. I suspect that because this is worldwide, there will be downward pressure on price since lots of talented devs live outside the US, and don't have the same level of expectations salary-wise. So I'd imagine this would be most useful for non-US residents and more junior devs, but I'm definitely signing up just to check it out.
zcesur 4y ago
Thanks for your feedback and questions! We actually have a FAQ section on the homepage, but yeah it's quite tiny and easy to miss, and we definitely need a standalone page where we address many more questions. 1. That's an interesting question that we haven't yet considered. We personally only store the config for the dev environment in our main repo and manage the sensitive production config using k8s Secrets (while version controlling them in a separate repo), so we haven't really run into any issues regarding that. Is there a particular solution that you'd like to see on Algora? 2. Yep! The issue page of each bounty also displays who started a solution (and when), e.g. https://app.algora.io/algora/challenge/bounties/1 https://app.algora.io/algora/challenge/bounties/1. We're actually not a fan of having multiple developers compete for the same reward ourselves (though there are some good use cases for that as well).

cinntaile 4y ago

2. So it's one of those platforms that let participants compete for a tiny prize pool? Why do people voluntarily do this, the pay is almost always shit even if you win. And if you don't you just wasted a lot of time and money (since you worked while you could have gotten a paid gig instead).

danielvaughn 4y ago
I have no idea, that's why I asked the question. From what I can see on their site, the price is offered up front. I suspect that because this is worldwide, there will be downward pressure on price since lots of talented devs live outside the US, and don't have the same level of expectations salary-wise. So I'd imagine this would be most useful for non-US residents and more junior devs, but I'm definitely signing up just to check it out.

zcesur 4y ago

Thanks for your feedback and questions! We actually have a FAQ section on the homepage, but yeah it's quite tiny and easy to miss, and we definitely need a standalone page where we address many more questions. 1. That's an interesting question that we haven't yet considered. We personally only store the config for the dev environment in our main repo and manage the sensitive production config using k8s Secrets (while version controlling them in a separate repo), so we haven't really run into any issues regarding that. Is there a particular solution that you'd like to see on Algora? 2. Yep! The issue page of each bounty also displays who started a solution (and when), e.g. https://app.algora.io/algora/challenge/bounties/1 https://app.algora.io/algora/challenge/bounties/1. We're actually not a fan of having multiple developers compete for the same reward ourselves (though there are some good use cases for that as well).