Bounties are overrated. I wish I could throw money at a problem and it would magically go away and bounties follow that logic. You get bounty hunters that abandon the project the minute the bounty is paid out and you get solutions that don't really solve what you had in mind but that look sufficiently like a solution so the bounty giver is pressured to pay out.
Discussion
other recommendation?
1. Person A puts out bounty
2. Person B requests bounty
3. Group C votes if this is a valid request (vouching for Person B or not)
Have to prove yourself to the community before getting another bounty accepted?
interaction is a trust situation. they won't interact if they don't trust. and trust is almost evaporated. they interact all the time but in alternative ways. like today when my some brought his alptop over and i get in front of his camera to verify him and alexa almost kept off the counter and offered
a notification about a new book (notification are off). so - you have to build relationships.
I'm fortunate enough to be on a Spiral Grant 🙏 and think this is a great model to support projects or people you like but maybe not great to attract new people to the space.
I suspect you don't want to build a big pool of devs that you pay and direct to work on this and that cause that is of course the most direct way of getting dev attention to the problems you want to get solved.
Devs are not necessarily good at marketing (themselves) or at hiring other devs to increase their capacity to take on load but maybe you can help with that like the Bitcoin Design Community grants help many projects that are dev-heavy to solve non-dev issues.
You know who built the gossip client and NDK. Help them hire people to advance your goals.
Developers market their ideas on Nostr and report transparently on their progress, and get zapped by anyone interested in encouraging them to continue.
No lump sums, no strings, just financial encouragement in exchange for concrete, steady, pleasing progress.
Low time-preference development.
I also think end users that have watched you plug-n-chug on the same project, for months, will be more inclined to pay you for your efforts. They know how hard you worked and they expect you to stay around.
PoW in software development.
We were working toward one and then decided to abandon the bounty and craft a product we'd be proud of and can see ourselves expanding and maintaining for years.
Led to a solid architecture, build servers, webservers and domains on different continents, and test automation.
But, yeah, means no money and a lot of the development is front-loaded, so you work away in the dark for months, while everyone else is just slapping some shit together on a weekend and getting paid.
😂🥴 Whatever.
I agree. As a developer with integrity, I would never bounty hunt when $$ is on the line. I’d happily propose a solution to win a contract. But I wouldn’t just dive into development with “hopes of being paid” without an agreement that “this is what you want” and that “I will develop it for you”.