Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
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Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
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Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#2Looks great, but why do you need to have the ability to update my GitHub profile when signing up?
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#3Looks great, but why do you need to have the ability to update my GitHub profile when signing up?
Hi @olegp, I'm the founder of Bountify. Thanks for the kudos! Unfortunately, the only way to get the user's email and github url is to request the "user" scope, which has write access. Bountify will never edit your Github account, but I understand that's besides the point, it's a terrible thing to ask for. I plan to work around this ASAP, as I imagine it's dissuading quite a few would-be users. Thanks for the feedback!
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#4Some of the tasks are at least an hours worth of work and they are offering a bounty of 1$?
You need to prune these types of job listings, they're just spam and completely unrealistic.
Example: https://bountify.co/1c
Solid days worth of work. Tweaking, designing, etc.
50 bucks! That's terrible. Any thoughts on how to mitigate this problem?
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#5Some of the tasks are at least an hours worth of work and they are offering a bounty of 1$? You need to prune these types of job listings, they're just spam and completely unrealistic. Example: https://bountify.co/1c Solid days worth of work. Tweaking, designing, etc. 50 bucks! That's terrible. Any thoughts on how to mitigate this problem?
Most users, including myself, provide solutions for fun. Look on StackOverflow; a lot of answers are very involved, and it's a free service. Bountify is like a Stack Overflow for code tasks, with a bonus of beer money if your solution is selected. Bottom line is that it's mostly for fun, as the bounty amounts are trivial wherever you live.
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#6Personally, I would remove the bounty price restriction, and find a way to allow the market to let the all good listings rise the top, and bad ones towards the bottom.
Lots of $1 spam.
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#7Personally, I would remove the bounty price restriction, and find a way to allow the market to let the all good listings rise the top, and bad ones towards the bottom. Lots of $1 spam.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering revising the bounty amount options and will most likely remove the $1 category.
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#8Personally, I would remove the bounty price restriction, and find a way to allow the market to let the all good listings rise the top, and bad ones towards the bottom. Lots of $1 spam.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering revising the bounty amount options and will most likely remove the $1 category.
Another solution would be to allow people to stack up bounties. Like the upvote system in SO in fact.
I like the idea of the solution being presented. This way you do not work only for money, but money do come as a bonus
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#9Looks pretty cool, I can definitely imagine outsourcing some easy-but-long tasks. I think that you should not aim at becomming "stack overflow with bounties" but a real marketplace, so the "do it for fun and a few beer bucks" tasks should be pruned.
Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks
#10Looks pretty cool, I can definitely imagine outsourcing some easy-but-long tasks. I think that you should not aim at becomming "stack overflow with bounties" but a real marketplace, so the "do it for fun and a few beer bucks" tasks should be pruned.
I'm pretty sure I'd use this sometimes as well, especially when struggling to find bugs and needing another eye on the code.
I think the few-bucks posts will probably fall away over time as more serious requests get posted.