Hmm... good question. 🤔 If I were paid in sats, I'd probably expect less than from a fiat company, for starters.
I tend to be really fast, which is probably bad for any model that involves paying by hour. I guess, maybe, depends on the size and complexity of the project, with a lump sum per project, maybe 200k sats for a detailed manual test report with improvement suggestions, with 100k for a follow-up test. More for automation.
Output should involve detailed work tickets with acceptance criteria so the devs can just knock out the work to remediate.
Like you've done with the Issues board for Alexandria.
Gherkin is always nice, and mockups, screen shots, etc.
I'm sorta overqualified to test the current Nostr projects, but I figure that they might eventually get bigger, and then my market would expand and I'd already have customers.
You could also scale your service offerings and rates to the size of current Nostr projects and build up a clientele in the early days.
A service like this is actually a boon that would enable more lone wolf Nostr devs to bootstrap innovative projects more effectively.
Yeah, the prices I named were for something larger or more complicated, like Highlighter.
For someone with a smaller project, I'd probably also do more design/workflow work and help them market. I have a powerful npub.
Testing has fixed costs, is the thing, as I have to "read" into their system and understand their application and business logic, in order to test. Which I'm really good at, but still. It's not much different from coding bounties, in that way, but each testing round would be more efficient, so I'd expect less pay for them.
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