🚀 Launched alpha of boss.dev
https://www.boss.dev/
I've been listening to the podcast for about a year, have found it very helpful, and wanted to share that my first indie project has launched! BOSS stands for "bounties for open source software" and it integrates bounties into GitHub issues to help OSS maintainers raise funds for their hard work. It also helps OSS project consumers (e.g. businesses) expedite bug fixes and feature releases with bounties.
Looking for feedback or people who might want to become early adopters of boss. The ideal early adopter is someone with a fairly popular open source project on GitHub who wants to make more revenue from their work.
Hi Chris - how is this differentiated from bounty source?
The big difference is the UX. Bounty source isn't well integrated with GitHub and it requires separate trips to bounty source to interact with bounties. With boss, the main UX is only in GitHub. All the up-to-date bounty information is within the github issues. People see it immediately when they go to an issue and can interact with the bounties before they even go to boss.dev (though they will ultimately have to go there at least once to send/receive bounties).
I did a little more reading last night. There are two more differentiating factors:
To explain further, I think bounties will be much more visible and effective if they work within GitHub issues.
Makes sense, thanks for explaining. Thinking out loud here, but do you see any way to extend this to private repos? Obviously people would need to apply before you let them in, but could see potential for a market place of talent for people to work on non open source projects. Right now I’d need to go to upwork etc, though would be cool to hire based on github account etc.
Boss already works with private repos, but doesn't provide a coordination/discovery service like what you're suggesting. You're saying the problem is how to connect bounty earners and bounty creators via private repos (which are impossible to find unless you're specifically invited), right?
I agree there is a market there. I see some possible paths forward like reputation-based suggestions to private repo owners, or maybe a public-bounty/private-repo post to advertise the help needed (now, bounties on private repos are not public). If you've got other ideas I'm all ears.
Congrats! I'm only a modest FOSS contributor but I would love to be paid to fix my own code 😁
Modest or not, feel free to install boss and the boss shield on your GitHub repo(s) :-)
If you do, I'm all ears if you have problems or suggestions :-)
Dev-ing like a boss!
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Thanks!