Question:
Do you think there's interest in software QA consulting on here? ๐ค Like, a testing bounty or something?
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Discussion
I see these jobs and apply and they call me up and it's like... ugh. I'd rather be testing Nostr stuff.
How much do you want to be paid for testing nostr stuff?
Hmm... good question. ๐ค If I were paid in sats, I'd probably expect less than from a fiat company, for starters.
I tend to be really fast, which is probably bad for any model that involves paying by hour. I guess, maybe, depends on the size and complexity of the project, with a lump sum per project, maybe 200k sats for a detailed manual test report with improvement suggestions, with 100k for a follow-up test. More for automation.
Output should involve detailed work tickets with acceptance criteria so the devs can just knock out the work to remediate.
Like you've done with the Issues board for Alexandria.
Gherkin is always nice, and mockups, screen shots, etc.
I'm sorta overqualified to test the current Nostr projects, but I figure that they might eventually get bigger, and then my market would expand and I'd already have customers.
You could also scale your service offerings and rates to the size of current Nostr projects and build up a clientele in the early days.
A service like this is actually a boon that would enable more lone wolf Nostr devs to bootstrap innovative projects more effectively.
Yeah, the prices I named were for something larger or more complicated, like Highlighter.
For someone with a smaller project, I'd probably also do more design/workflow work and help them market. I have a powerful npub.
Testing has fixed costs, is the thing, as I have to "read" into their system and understand their application and business logic, in order to test. Which I'm really good at, but still. It's not much different from coding bounties, in that way, but each testing round would be more efficient, so I'd expect less pay for them.
I think this is the only place for what you say.
I'm just finding the other sw projects "out there" so soul-crushing. It's like, I'm trying to end your business model in my side-gig. This is gonna get complicated. ๐
likely
It wouldn't even only be me. My husband is a software engineer specialized in QA and doing code reviews, and DevOps stuff, and I bet I could get the GitCitadel team to help me out, if the workload rose.
We're also good at Project Management and etc.
Nice; I think that kind of cross project collaborations has a bright future.
gitworkshop.dev and ngit have benefited greatly from the work you have done: analysis, testing, PM, etc. I am personally very grateful.
sourcing funding for this in nostr may be challenging. Many nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f grants are like mine: for 1 dev full-time. Most projects don't have access to a pot of money for this. It would be really nice to have a call-off pot for this and other things such as, the great work nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q has done on logo design. I wonder though if the Open Source dynamic changes, and an expectation is created, when smaller individual contributions are directly rewarded with money.
Do you think a <20% allocation, within a nostr grant application, for call-off work that would be opportunistically spent on analysis, QA, testing, PM, be looked upon with skepticism?
nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc (nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f) nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td (HRF)
nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl It would be a shame for the community if you end up working a fiat TA/BA/QA role. In nostr you have: 1. identified need 2. motivation, 3. ability, 4. proof-of-work, 5. opportunity (don't currently have a job). you are just missing 6. resources.
Given the funding in the space, it would be disappointing if you were unable access some of that because your work is somewhat of a niche in nostr.
If you need references or anything please let me know. Perhaps you could get a number of projects you have contributed to to include references as part of a grant proposal?
I actually quit my fiatjob, to get nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz off the ground, but it hums along nicely, now, and my household is starting to eat the seed corn, so I have to do something else for income.
There are actually a lot of remote requirements management, support, testing, etc. fiat positions open, but they all sound sort of boring. ๐ Was thinking about going back to logistics, instead. But then I'm really gone because then I'd be spending all day inspecting dangerous goods tanks at the port, or something.
We both tend to work for lots of different projects, doing specialized tasks. There are a couple of people on here, like that. It doesn't really make sense for us to do it only for one project, as the quality of our work depends upon transfer of knowledge.
Some of us are also developers, but our primary contribution isn't product coding.
I will happily keep posting issues for clients I actively use or that our project has a stake in, but it's nothing as advanced or useful as what they'd get for paying me, and I only do it when I'm in the mood. And it would probably mostly stop, once I get a day job.
I have a half-baked idea for an alternate funding modelโฆ. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
The revenue split from the output of the bounty is a nice idea. Are you familiar with nostrocket.org from nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p?
Bounties don't even work for mechanical turk level stuff let alone complex requirements IMO, creates a malincentive
And quality requirements are nonfunctional requirements, so that's a level of abstraction higher.
Did you read it? Skim it?
Itโs a sats-first, trust-based model.
Runs 100% on reputation and incentives
I did read it. I like the model. I was just agreeing with the point that good bounties are quite difficult to write. I bet clearly formulated ones would be very popular, tho.
I have a lot of experience in requirements engineering for companies, so I trust myself to write good requirements.
I mean, people could pay me to write up the bounty requirements with your parallel system. ๐
Ah, a parallel bounty.
There isn't interest in QA in the software industry. ๐