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by bevan 13y ago
I created a marketplace for small coding tasks where buyers pay upfront when they post a code bounty (bountify.co). In practice, the pay-upfront model has worked well- there have been no disputes after several hundred bounties, and about 90
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by bevan 13y ago
Coinbase has been doing cool stuff recently (fancy new hire, css tweaks, this story) but their base product needs work, and their support is weak. I have yet to receive responses to two support emails I sent several months ago, one of which
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by bevan 13y ago
Ironically, they could be the last ones standing if a disease sweeps the rest of the world. On another note, it would be interesting to know what they eat, and to know the incidence of chronic disease in their culture. The results would lik
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Ask HN: Other bitcoin wallets / APIs similar to Coinbase?
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by bevan 14y ago
The price changed.
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Bitcoin down 60% to $100 (bitstamp.net)
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by bevan 14y ago
This post prompted me to commission a script that calculates itemized page weight: https://bountify.co/ruby-script-to-display-itemized-page-wei... .
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by bevan 14y ago
Belbn, thanks for the feedback. What do you think would be a good promotion strategy?
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Bountify spawns a suite of HN tools(bountify.co)
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by bevan 14y ago
I commissioned this Rails app for $50 on Bountify.co. I'm also the founder of Bountify, and am trying to demonstrate some cool use cases. Please let me know if you have any feedback on either site!
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Show HN: Get an SMS when your site is posted on HN (made for $50 on Bountify)(hntexter.com)
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by bevan 14y ago
Looking forward to this- the last couple similar services (periodical design/coding challenges) that I've signed up for fizzled out after 1-2 weeks. Hope this one sticks around!
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Newbies: Tired of people busting on your programming questions? Try Bountify.co(bountify.co)
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by bevan 14y ago
This button is great, but the button server at hnbutton.appspot.com (which queries the search API) is frequently over its quota, which means the button doesn't appear / work a lot of the time. It's easy to set up your own (free) button serv
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The HN button doesn't work half the time. Here's a cool fix.(bountify.co)
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3x more signups from Habrahabr.ru than from 12 hours on HN front page(bountify.co)
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Setting up a HackerNews button server(bountify.co)
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Made with Bountify: chart URLs submitted by HN users(bountify.co)
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by bevan 14y ago
If the bounty poster requests code, they would verify it by running that code on their own. Most bounty creators are programmers themselves, so that is not a big issue for most users. Non-technical users have posted bounties as well, but th
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by bevan 14y ago
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of Bountify. I'm very grateful for all your comments! A great deal of the site's current features were built based on feedback from HN, so if you have any other suggestions for making the site better I'd greatly
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! That's an interesting idea. Right now, registered users can click "I'm working on it" on a given bounty to privately signal to the bounty creator that they have started work. I was hesitant to make the list of curre
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by bevan 14y ago
Right now users have the option to donate their bounty winnings to charity, which some are doing.
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by bevan 14y ago
If you donate your winnings to charity (a feature provided on Bountify), there are no accounting issues to worry about.
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering revising the bounty amount options and will most likely remove the $1 category.
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by bevan 14y ago
Most users, including myself, provide solutions for fun. Look on StackOverflow; a lot of answers are very involved, and it's a free service. Bountify is like a Stack Overflow for code tasks, with a bonus of beer money if your solution is se
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by bevan 14y ago
Hi @olegp, I'm the founder of Bountify. Thanks for the kudos! Unfortunately, the only way to get the user's email and github url is to request the "user" scope, which has write access. Bountify will never edit your Github account, but I und
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by bevan 14y ago
Hi ing33k, I'm the creator of Bountify. Thanks for trying it out! In response to your comment, solutions are versioned, and there is now a Timeline feature for each Bounty, where you can see each edit made to each solution in order of creat
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by bevan 14y ago
I'm the founder and I'm in the US (the founder of Carmivore mentioned they were from Slovenia).
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. 1) I'll add a filter for open bounties. 2) It would be nice if payment could occur after a solution is accepted, but in practice that presents some thorny issues. Notably, how would I ensure the bounty creator pays
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by bevan 14y ago
Actually, that's me (the founder), seeding the site with some bounties. I don't want the site to get a bad reputation as a cheating hub, so I'll be closing questions that are excessively homework-like. https://bountify.co/8 and similar bo

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