Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks • Hacker News Board

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by jameszol » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC

tonylampada wrote: post #23

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…

@jameszol, please add http://freedomsponsors.org to your list ;-)

Noted, thank you!

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by saiphul » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 10:27 AM UTC

Do you think there's merit in incorporating a way for users to collaborate towards finding solutions; and I mean something designed for collaboration rather than the current answer+comments scenario. In some ways, that means relooking at the current paradigm where users start with an answer, which by default, implies something complete. Of course, the flip side of what I'm saying could be a lot of half-baked gibberish, but then again, since peer respect is the currency here, maybe that in itself takes care of things.

I don't really have an answer to how to do collaboration, but I think it may, just enable a lot more challenging problems to be posted here, which takes this a while lot further.

Also, I'm wondering if anyone else thinks if having one needing to give bounty even if there is no satisfactory answer could be an impediment down the down.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by businessleads » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 4:01 PM UTC

Great concept and implementation.

Re: Bountify – Crowdsource small coding tasks

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Post by markive » Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

I'm trying it out at the mo.. It seems to be fairly full of Google searchers.. The fact that there are so many $1 means I thought by going in at $10 I would get a good response.. I've had quite a few, but there's no incentive for the responder to test their solution that it has met the test.. It's like Stack Overflow in that the first to respond often wins.