True. And we have a great Nostr friendly crowdfunding site in @geyser - but bounties address a different problem. They’re issues and features identified by users that they are willing to pay to see happen.
I think bounties can work, but they need some marketing, a site with a slick UI, and exposure. And most importantly, someone with project management and product development skills to help distill out the promising ideas and let the cream rise to the top.
Maybe a bounty fund? Meaning, sats go into a pool and contributors vote on a list of potential bounties that have been carefully thought out and written up by someone who understands user stories and product development.
I’ve always appreciated the book publishing model where they provide funds up front with a backend contract which holds the author accountable to a date and deadline. I’m not sure how that would work with a multi sig Bitcoin account, but something to consider 🤔
Multisig could make this really interesting. You vote with your private key.
Hmm still not sold. I don’t think a slick UI is going to help when the underlying problem is that there’s no way to claim a work in progress status. The first come first claim process is “not worth it”, or so the thinking goes. I say all of this having launched a bounty and people asking me if it’s open only to not do anything about it. Then someone else claiming a “solution” that is a far different thing from what was described.
Even smaller bounties with presumably less work went unclaimed. My guess is people just don’t want to work for a the amount of sats offered and who can blame them when you can fiat mine much more in the same timeframe.
The only time bounties work imo is when people do it for fun in their spare time because they like the space.
How about crowdfunding the bounty to make it worth the devs time? This combined with someone who could write a very specific project proposal with clear deliverables would focus the project and make it more attractive.
Yeah we can do that with zapraisers
Any successful? I’m honestly not too familiar
No they are not widely known. I think we could use a simple client or ui to add in any client that implements them
Agreed. Bounty descriptions are normally vague
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