Title: Hey HN! We’re Ioannis &amp; Zaf, building Algora.io to help OSS projects reward their contributors &amp; grow their communities.<p>1 min demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;algoraio&#x2F;status&#x2F;1641560954746839042" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;algoraio&#x2F;status&#x2F;1641560954746839042</a><p>The context: contributing to open source helps developers gain experience, grow their networks &amp; land jobs while helping maintainers ship product updates and push their projects forward for the whole community<p>The problem: there&#x27;s too much work to be done in open source and not enough people contributing. Introducing payments can make contributing more accessible &amp; benefit both sides, however today paid open source is scarce, low trust &amp; high friction<p>Our solution: we built an app that streamlines open source bounties on Github<p>To date, OSS projects on the plaftorm have awarded $65,785 (600 bounties) to 188 contributors from 48 countries<p>Right now, 43 OSS projects (mainly Typescript, Rust &amp; Scala) have made 242 bounties ($46,899) available to solve<p>To create bounties in your project, simply register, install our app in your repo(s) and use the &#x2F;bounty command on issues<p>To solve bounties, submit a PR including the &#x2F;claim command &amp; connect with Stripe&#x2F;Alipay to receive payouts<p>We also started a COSS founder podcast to share lessons &amp; advice for building open source companies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@algora-io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@algora-io</a><p>We think it&#x27;s now a great time to welcome new contributors &amp; maintainers on the Algora platform - happy Hacktoberfest!<p>We are really excited to hear your feedback&#x2F;questions and connect further: our emails are ioannis@algora.io &amp; zafer@algora.io<p>Thank you!
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