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Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by viseztrance »

bevan wrote: post #5
sergiotapia wrote: post #4

Some 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.

Developers don't need money for pizza or beer, but here's a thought - give 20% of that money to charity.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by [deleted] »

bevan wrote: post #5
sergiotapia wrote: post #4

Some 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.

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Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by davedx »

bevan wrote: post #5
sergiotapia wrote: post #4

Some 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.

I would rather do something for free than have to worry about the extra accounting declaring lots of $1 amounts to the tax department entails.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

#14

Post by tonylampada »

jlengrand wrote: post #8
bevan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

http://freedomsponsors.org (disclaimer - I'm the founder) has a bounty system like that.

One difference is that users are encouraged to place bounties for existing issues on open source projects issues - the main goal on FS is to kickstart Free Software projects - but you can place a bounty for an "unlinked" task much like Bountify, like this one --> http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/13/a-complete-jee-...

Another big difference is that there's no money escrow. You pay after the task is done, if you're happy with the result.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by bevan »

davedx wrote: post #13
bevan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would rather do something for free than have to worry about the extra accounting declaring lots of $1 amounts to the tax department entails.

If you donate your winnings to charity (a feature provided on Bountify), there are no accounting issues to worry about.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

#16

Post by bevan »

viseztrance wrote: post #11
bevan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Developers don't need money for pizza or beer, but here's a thought - give 20% of that money to charity.

Right now users have the option to donate their bounty winnings to charity, which some are doing.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

#17

Post by jameszol »

I love specialized task-oriented marketplaces like this and hope several of these take off.

The only other that I'm aware of at the moment is Tweaky.com.

Tweaky appears to focus on front-end development while I see a back-end task or two at Bountify.co.

Another difference is the minimum price. Tweaky is at $39 and Bountify is at $1.

Are there other big differences between the two?

I would hesitate to jump into a marketplace with low minimum prices because I have been groomed to 'get what I pay for' with development. It's hard to imagine that $39 is sufficient for a lot of tasks let alone $1.

As a person currently in the market for developers:

Finding a front-end rock star went well although it was slow going. We filled that position within a couple months and have asked that developer to source to Tweaky (and to check out Bountify) for spillover until/if/when we need to hire another person in-house. Our in-house developer would audit/implement changes coming from Tweaky/Bountify.

Finding a back-end/systems engineer rock star is turning out to be a bigger challenge for us and at this moment I would find a lot of value in a verified systems engineering marketplace to source work to. I find Bountify appealing in that sense although I would wait for a high quality validation procedure before sourcing systems work to a 3rd party. Even then, I would only allow access to a test environment with a requirement for instructions on rolling the changes live so I could bring in somebody who has worked closely with me to audit and implement that solution.

The bottom line for me: I am very much in favor of this type of specialized marketplace and am glad to see Bountify.co enter the arena.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by scribu »

jameszol wrote: post #17

I love specialized task-oriented marketplaces like this and hope several of these take off. The only other that I'm aware of at the moment is Tweaky.com. Tweaky appears to focus on front-end development while I see a back-end task or two at Bountify.co. Another difference is the minimum price. Tweaky is at $39 and Bountify is at $1. Are there other big differences between the two? I would hesitate to jump into a mark…

Another one that's been around for a while is http://www.wpquestions.com/ (and they actually have a network of sites now - see sidebar)

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

#19

Post by viseztrance »

bevan wrote: post #16
viseztrance wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developers don't need money for pizza or beer, but here's a thought - give 20% of that money to charity.

Right now users have the option to donate their bounty winnings to charity, which some are doing.

Very nice!

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by vineet »

Great idea.

As someone who wants a small project to try out a new framework, this seems like a great site to find projects.

It might be helpful to have users flag tasks that they are working on, so that others can get a sense of how many people are currently working on an answer.

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