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by irf1 4y ago
Received 5 PRs, awarded the top 3. You can actually see them https://app.algora.io/algora/challenge/pulls/5 We clarified it in our bounty issue that only the best-winning submissions would get the bounty. Oth
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by irf1 4y ago
That's just how Thomas at Cloudthread.io run his process, he used real paid work for his final hiring decision. It's not the only way. We personally (Algora.io founders) jumped straight into paid work without prior interviews. We
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by irf1 4y ago
Give candidates real work & pay them for their time. https://blog.algora.io/post/2022-04-pay-when-hiring-part-2/
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by irf1 4y ago
+1 Thank you Kevin! We really appreciate it :)
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by irf1 4y ago
Naval Ravikant discusses this with Joe Rogan (episode #1309) at min 25:20-28:20 youtu.be/3qHkcs3kG44?t=1520 What do you think?
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by irf1 4y ago
Thank you both for your feedback!! You are right. This is in our backlog, we appreciate you emphasizing it!
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by irf1 4y ago
This $100 bounty was shared by an undergraduate student founder at Harvard College who is looking for contributors / new teammates. There are likely classmates/peers/developers who may find it fun and worthwhile to solve this
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by irf1 4y ago
Re: the latter question, absolutely! You can create bounties both in your private Algora repos as well as private Github repos using our integration. You can share them privately (via email) or make them public on Algora - only the issue be
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by irf1 4y ago
Thank you for your comment! All these folks on the homepage actually completed bounties while being college students (most of them at Williams College in Massachusetts, our alma mater) before landing their entry-level jobs. They were the fi
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by irf1 4y ago
Absolutely, in fact they already have! We support bounty payouts from (and to) anywhere that Stripe does. - Ioannis
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by irf1 4y ago
Thanks for your comment and reply! Very valid points. > what if someone else submits a solution for the ticket I'm in the middle of? You're right, the bounty should display the number of people working on it and when they start
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by irf1 4y ago
Correct. Coding would be paid, for example using bounties ( https://docs.algora.io/doc/Bounties/ ).
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Ask HN: Replace Job Applications with Pull Requests?
1 points by irf1 4y ago|4 comments
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SWE interviews should be paid, part 2(blog.algora.io)
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$500 Developer Interview(blog.algora.io)
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$3k bounties & 33 PRs later: the case for giving grants to student startups(blog.algora.io)
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by irf1 5y ago
Algora takes care of 1099s (via Stripe) so you don't have to
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by irf1 5y ago
Stripe Connect collects SSN/EIN for someone to get paid on Algora. It's basically no-strings-attached contract work within Git repositories.