Wait, who's 'they' ??
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OpenSats, I guess.
And people who put up bounties, but the bounties aren't attractive because they usually don't have clear acceptance criteria, the money isn't held in escrow, and you don't even know if it's still open or how many other devs are working on it.
You could bust your butt for weeks or months and get nothing. Don't quit the day job. 😂
And bounties don't solve for projects wanting to build something complex and/or expensive, that they've thought up and defined themselves.
That would need something like Kickstarter, I suppose.
Or maybe we should just use Kickstarter. 🤷♀️
Bounties work well when there is skin in the game. In order to build trust, it is good to put some sats down on the project with the developer, which shares the risk and puts an incentive in place to get the job done. Having the bounty paid out all upon completion is not very motivating or enticing.
Well, that's why it's safe to assume that the bounty is meant for someone they already have a personal or business relationship with. They then don't have to bother putting any money down or negotiating clear criteria, because it all runs on "trust me bro, see you on the island".
Trust is built, not granted. To earn trust it takes PoW, like many things, work for free until you build a product/reputation strong enough to get paid. I don’t think it’s more than that.
That's fine, but then they should stop whining that other devs aren't going after the bounties.
Set the bounties up, so that it's attractive to a wider number of devs, or call your bros. 🤷♀️
I didn’t grasp the full context at first and was just speaking to my own experience with bounties, but yes, there would be a benefit to building a talent pipeline of developers (and non developers) and in that case it has to be attractive and incentivized 😁
As an example of how this can be done well, I believe nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza set up a system for "reserving" bounties related to Corny Chats. So devs can apply, get locked in, and get paid upon completion. Those bounties were also clearly defined and dealt with bite-sized bits of functionality (like adding support for a certain NIP to the Corny Chats app). That's a pretty good way of soliciting open-source contributions.
That was nostr:npub1ssjaq3spxe6j5vhh0cc3g44wj75fvp8d3j44nwk7dapzg9t4rm4savvhr4 who had the nostrbounties.com website. Its no longer up, but the project was made open source (MIT License) last year with source available at github.com/diamsa/nostrbounties
The bounties I post now are either to project github issues or to individuals.
Of course, it's no longer up. 😂 Like everything.