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Bounty — Get paid for referring friends to jobs 💰
Bounty lets you get paid for referring friends to jobs. If you don't know someone you can refer, share the bounty and get a cut of the prize pool.
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@adityavsc Thanks Aditya! We think there's a lot of opportunity for companies to experiment with paid referrals, especially early-stage startups hiring for key roles. It's always important to hire the right people, but even moreso for a small team!
Congrats on the launch! @tina_jiang2
It would be great if you can add some sort of expertise tags, so recruiters would be able to sort faster and with higher quality.
For example: you know C++, you recommend someone for C++ position, and this recommendation would have more weight in the eyes of a recruiter or a hiring manager.
@eugenehp Thanks Eugene! Expertise tags are a great idea and would be helpful in triaging, definitely something we'll consider going forward.
Hey everyone! I’m Tina, co creator of Bounty, along with Cameron Kelley.
Bounty is the best way to help friends land jobs and get paid (a lot) along the way. We’re hoping this:
1) Becomes a great side hustle for well connected folks.
2) Helps companies hire faster than ever before.
This project started because we were seeing other founders posting bounties or referral bonuses ad hoc on Twitter. They would offer thousands if someone intro’d them to a candidate they hired.
Excited by what we were seeing, we set out to create a platform that would aggregate bounties in one place and manage the process end to end.
Here’s how it works if you’re interested in referring:
• 🔍 Find a bounty on our site or newsletter.
• 🎯 Refer candidates you know through our referral form, it’ll take < 1 min.
• ➡️ Share the bounty to increase your odds and get a cut of the sharing bonus.
• 💰 Get paid when your actions lead to a hire.
Here’s how it works if you’re interested in posting a bounty:
• 💵 Set your bounty amount. We'll handle paying it out.
• 🔗 Increase reach by adding a sharing bonus to incentivize people to pass on your bounty.
• 👩🏻💻 Triage incoming referrals in your dashboard.
• ✨ There’s no upfront costs. You’ll only pay if you end up hiring someone.
Super excited to be sharing Bounty with the PH community. Would love to hear your feedback, questions, and ideas!
Great product Tina. How do you prevent people seeing a referral link to bypass and not stay in the chain to claim the bounty and not the bonus.
Suppose I see a referral link from User A, instead of sharing user A, I only go to directly suggest my candidate.
Does it make sense ?
Great idea! Actually there is a huge successful platform called Wanted based on S.Korea (you can search wanted jobs via Google). It's also a job platform where friends can get rewards to refer his/her friends for the job. It's really working well in my country, so I'm so sure that your site can work in a global level too!
@andrew_cho Thanks Younghwi! Wanted looks interesting, great to have some proof of concept internationally.
This is really nice! Referrals are the best way to recruit for founders. Will give it a try for our next hire.
@bilal_chaglani Thanks Bilal! Good to hear how important referrals are for you and excited for you to give Bounty a try!
I like the idea, it's much more comfortable to have such information appearing in one particular place. Wish you succeed!
@aleksandra_vovchenko Thanks Alexa! Definitely agree that aggregating everything and formalizing the process has a lot of benefits over a more off the cuff process.
I'm really excited about this product. Curious to see if you guys build a backlog on the supply side of hiring in the future.
@scheuercharles thanks charles, supply backlog would definitely be interesting!
Awesome concept!! Ditto to everyone else - I'm constantly referring people in and out of jobs, so this is a cool way to consolidate. Hopefully you can leverage this network-driven approach to support underrepresented groups as well! I know the "network" is often inaccessible to underrepresented groups in tech, and this might democratize access.
@julieechenn Thanks Julie! And yes!! Definitely hoping that this approach will open things up and lead to more diverse referrals and therefore more diverse teams :)
Looks really cool. I'd be excited to see how far you can take this with different types of bounties out there!
Really cool product, definitely lowers the friction when hiring within your network. Great job y'all!
@thisiskarthik_ Thanks Karthik! The goal is definitely to make things as seamless as possible :)
@przemyslaw_szustak Thanks Przemek! The person who makes the referral that leads to a hire gets paid out the full bounty amount.
@przemyslaw_szustak Paid by the employer but Bounty will process that payment in product.
This is amazing! As you get more and more bounties on the platform, do you have any plans to enhance discoverability? Ie, perhaps I work in the healthcare tech industry, and I get notifications every time a bounty for someone in my particular industry is posted?
@roshan_fernando Thanks Roshan! Definitely will be thinking about discoverability as there are more bounties on the platform. Letting someone opt into notifications about a specific industry is a great idea, I could see us sending subscribers a form to set those notification preferences. We'll also probably have filters on the site where all the active bounties are listed!
Wish you success with the realization of this work. But have you ever thought of working as remote qa testing jobs in the same domain with better perspectives for the future? Also, you will have a job from home that may save you more time. Being a great specialist in this area will increase your profit. Your product will help many people find a job that suits them, but I think doing this job from home will stimulate them to take more than one job as part-time work and earn additional money. I think I will also use your Bounty to search for a remote expert in my company.
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This is fantastic! I'm constantly referring people to roles and getting asked to help fill roles -- great tool with great incentive design
Such a brilliant idea and the execution is on point! I've loved using Bounty so far - it's simple and easy - both to post jobs, and to refer others. THANK YOU for this!!!
This looks awesome! Congrats on the launch, guys; looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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