BountyHub

Maker

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Hi PH! 👋 Today we’re launching a new platform: ✨Bountyhub✨ BountyHub is a platform that aims to monetize issue resolution on public GitHub repositories which is a more direct way to finance contributors than donations/sponsoring. 🚨THE PROBLEM🚨 Most github repositories have issues that remain open for a long time which is due to multiple reasons such as the lack of resources or prioritization, Most developers don't have the time to browse random repositories on github to attempt fixing repositories they don't use or issues that doesn't affect them directly. 💡THE SOLUTION💡 The solution is be to put prizes on github issues to incentivize open-source contributors to fix issues even if there not directly affected by the issue. This could also be a way for open source repositories to attract more contributors and for the repository maintainers to earn money contributing to their own repositories. 🎯WHY IT MATTERS🎯 Most if not all software companies rely on open source technologies to produce a better product, and sometimes these open source technologies might have bugs or missing featurs that can block the company's productivity. 🙏FEEDBACK🙏 We love feedback! Please give it a go, and let us know what you think in the comment

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8mo ago

Jonny Miles

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cool idea! I'm wondering how you make sure people pay if the issue has been properly resolved? Or what you do if it's a partial solution? Congrats on the launch! 🚀

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7mo ago

omar soufiane

BountyHub

Maker

@jonnymiles Hello, and thanks for supporting us, we take payments upfront so that we can guarantee that the prize is available to the bounty hunter. when the pull request is made, if there is a disagreement between the bounty creator and the bounty solver, the bounty hunter can create a dispute, then the bounty prize is frozen (the bounty creator can't retract his money). then we do a manual verification of the pull request and try to resolve the issue between the two in the chat. since the platform is new we don't have any disputes created yet but it's how we plan to solve them and it's mainly why we are taking fees as a middle man.

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7mo ago

Jai from Worksaga

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Congratulations @omar_soufiane to the team on launching BountyHub! This is a fantastic platform for developers to earn money by solving GitHub issues. It’s great that it promotes open-source contributions with secure payments and dispute resolution. My minor query is about the ease of use for beginners.

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7mo ago

omar soufiane

BountyHub

Maker

@jai_singhal thank you, For bounty creators is as simple as pasting the link of your GitHub issue, For bounty hunters to get paid you must submit a pull request to the GitHub repository of the issue, and getting your pull request accepted can be challenging if you are a beginner developer (but this depends on the repository you are contributing to and how hard is the issue to solve), then you can just paste it in BountyHub and we handle the rest.

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7mo ago

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