Hey HN! We’re Ioannis & Zaf, building Algora.io to help OSS projects reward their contributors & grow their communities.<p>1 min demo: <a href="https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1641560954746839042</a><p>The context: contributing to open source helps developers gain experience, grow their networks & land jobs while helping maintainers ship product updates and push their projects forward for the whole community<p>The problem: there's too much work to be done in open source and not enough people contributing. Introducing payments can make contributing more accessible & benefit both sides, however today paid open source is scarce, low trust & 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 & 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 /bounty command on issues<p>To solve bounties, submit a PR including the /claim command & connect with Stripe/Alipay to receive payouts<p>We also started a COSS founder podcast to share lessons & advice for building open source companies: <a href="https://youtube.com/@algora-io">https://youtube.com/@algora-io</a><p>We think it's now a great time to welcome new contributors & maintainers on the Algora platform - happy Hacktoberfest!<p>We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are ioannis@algora.io & zafer@algora.io<p>Thank you!