You&#x27;re ignoring the growing population of developers who are hobbyists or not professional software developers. A lot of these people just want to get something done and don&#x27;t have their egos tied up in the solution.<p>I think this is a good idea. Many people accept help online and feel guilty about getting extensive assistance for free because they understand someone went out of their way to help and it&#x27;s human nature to not want to take advantage of others.<p>There are already a lot of sites where I&#x27;ve seen people post small bounties like &quot;$25 to anyone who can help me with this small problem.&quot; They can&#x27;t afford to have someone write an entire program for them, but it&#x27;s worth paying someone to get past a thorny issue.