Sometimes they work. I’ve observed that devs who are excited about a particular thing will do it more for the motivation than a one off payment.
Discussion
Do you think there’s a dev like that on the Damus team or if I could find one elsewhere? In your experience working with Damus I mean
Give it a shot and I’ll share with recent active iOS devs if you like
What’s a reasonable amount for that type of bounty you think?
Take a look at the bounty tag history, and note what is open, what is closed
https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Abounty
The amounts vary a lot. Particularly in the closed tab. Is this due to the amount of time needed to fix or the popularity of the issue maybe?