True. And we have a great Nostr friendly crowdfunding site in nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 - but bounties address a different problem. They’re issues and features identified by users that they are willing to pay to see happen.

I think bounties can work, but they need some marketing, a site with a slick UI, and exposure. And most importantly, someone with project management and product development skills to help distill out the promising ideas and let the cream rise to the top.

Maybe a bounty fund? Meaning, sats go into a pool and contributors vote on a list of potential bounties that have been carefully thought out and written up by someone who understands user stories and product development.

Hmm still not sold. I don’t think a slick UI is going to help when the underlying problem is that there’s no way to claim a work in progress status. The first come first claim process is “not worth it”, or so the thinking goes. I say all of this having launched a bounty and people asking me if it’s open only to not do anything about it. Then someone else claiming a “solution” that is a far different thing from what was described.

Even smaller bounties with presumably less work went unclaimed. My guess is people just don’t want to work for a the amount of sats offered and who can blame them when you can fiat mine much more in the same timeframe.

The only time bounties work imo is when people do it for fun in their spare time because they like the space.

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How about crowdfunding the bounty to make it worth the devs time? This combined with someone who could write a very specific project proposal with clear deliverables would focus the project and make it more attractive.

Yeah we can do that with zapraisers

Any successful? I’m honestly not too familiar

No they are not widely known. I think we could use a simple client or ui to add in any client that implements them

This was 2 months ago. Do you know any other clients that have implemented? Unfortunately I don’t have an android so can’t play with Amethyst.

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Agreed. Bounty descriptions are normally vague