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   by zcesur 3y ago

   Algora.io just crossed $50K rewarded to 159 open-source contributors from 45 countries! We've been lucky to serve incredible orgs & contributors and we hope to see the community grow :) Some projects today include: --- Trigger.dev
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   Open source projects rewarding contributors(console.algora.io)

   7 points by zcesur 3y ago|1 comments
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   by zcesur 3y ago

   tangentially related: refact recently shared 4 bounties worth $9,000 to help improve their tech! https://algora.io/org/smallcloudai/bounties disclaimer: i'm a cofounder of algora, the platform enabling these
4. 34.▲
   by zcesur 3y ago

   we charge the private bounty fee when your issue is resolved with a PR, not upfront
5. 35.▲
   by zcesur 3y ago

   zaf from algora.io here. looks like this person scraped the bounties from our site. we're not affiliated and we never ask folks to pay to share bounties
6. 36.▲
   by zcesur 3y ago

   i just whipped a new profile page, as an addition/alternative to the resume: https://algora.io/@/rjackson
7. 37.▲
   by zcesur 3y ago

   as a fellow bootstrapped founder, hats off to the NeetoCal team I'm personally using Cal.com, it's free and I'm very happy. I'm also very biased because we interviewed the co-founder/co-ceo [1] and Cal.com uses our
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   The Resourceful Life(ribbonfarm.com)

   2 points by zcesur 3y ago|0 comments
9. 39.▲
   by zcesur 3y ago

   we're just two bootstrapped cofounders and my cofounder has been doing a lot of user interviews to understand our potential customers' needs and improve our product [1] we soon realized these interviews had a lot of gold nuggets w
10. 40.▲
    by zcesur 3y ago

    hey ffback, contributors get 100% of the bounty award :) the organization pays the fee on top of the bounty. will update the docs to make this more clear, thank you!
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    by zcesur 3y ago

    qdrant also pays open source contributors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35828003 disclaimer: i'm a founder at algora.io, the platform that enables these paid contributions
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    by zcesur 3y ago

    huge privilege to have you on our platform, thank you qdrant team! hope more rustaceans find this useful :)
13. 43.▲
    by zcesur 4y ago

    PR merged! the bounty was rewarded to a new contributor <3
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    by zcesur 4y ago

    oh i see, sorry about that. just deployed a new version with an additional link typed out in the email. can you let me know if that works?
15. 45.▲
    by zcesur 4y ago

    hey Maksadbek, thanks a lot for reporting this! looking into it right now. in the meantime, you can hold down the button in the email to copy the magic link and paste into your browser
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    by zcesur 4y ago

    <3 wouldn't be here without you guys. thank you so much!
17. 47.▲
    by zcesur 4y ago

    ha you're not alone. algora comes from the greek word αγορά (community gathering / marketplace) + the word algorithm :)
18. 48.▲
    by zcesur 4y ago

    thanks for your message & sharing your first bounties today, MJ - super excited to have you on algora!
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    Show HN: Algora – Paid open-source contributions(console.algora.io)

    111 points by zcesur 4y ago|70 comments
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    by zcesur 4y ago

    great product with lovely people behind it! coincidentally, we did an interview with one of the co-founders a few days ago. dropping the links below in case anyone wants to learn more about their philosophy & how they navigate the oss&#
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    by zcesur 4y ago

    This is very cool! It reminds me of the pentatonic sound mode on lichess
22. 52.▲
    by zcesur 4y ago

    Thank you -- this is heartwarming :)
23. 53.▲
    by 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 interes
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    by zcesur 4y ago

    Absolutely :) Thanks for asking!
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    Show HN: Uber for Coding — Build product with bounties(algora.io)

    66 points by zcesur 4y ago|83 comments
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    SWE interviews should be paid – Part 2(blog.algora.io)

    9 points by zcesur 4y ago|1 comments
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    by zcesur 5y ago

    Hey, Zaf from Algora here. I'm sorry that you (and some other people in this thread) felt this way, but I totally get where you're coming from. I wish we had more expertise and time on our hands to publish more thorough posts, but
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    SWE interviews should be paid(blog.algora.io)

    74 points by zcesur 5y ago|128 comments
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    by zcesur 5y ago

    Hi HN, this is Zaf and Ioannis from Algora ( https://algora.io ). Earlier this year we decided to hire SWE summer interns. We wanted to know how well someone would perform on the job, so we gave our top candidates a real paid task
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    Show HN: Algora – Using bounties in the SWE hiring process(algora.io)

    1 points by zcesur 5y ago|1 comments