Something like issuehunt, but including the bounties for creating new (needed) applications. And regular pay for the maintenance of government funded projects. Only problem is, that software is global, and we don't have a global government to manage this. Source: about 1 year ago

There are several bounty apps that exist for open source projects ie https://issuehunt.io/. Do you think it'd be a good idea to have a similar concept for funding features/tasks in a startup? Does what I'm asking make sense? Source: over 1 year ago

Perhaps https://issuehunt.io/ would be somewhat closer to what you have in mind? Not sure how active it is. Source: almost 2 years ago

I'm thinking of using some bug bounty type of services to speed up bugfixes and adding new features, anyone has experience with it? I mean services like https://www.bountysource.com/ , https://gitpay.me/ or https://issuehunt.io/. Source: almost 3 years ago

There's also https://issuehunt.io/ which seems to be the same idea. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

I recommend Kotn, it’s Canadian and they source everything sustainably from Egypt. It’s mostly basics so not a lot of variety like Aritzia’a catalogue. But it’s definitely more sustainableand portions of sales go to building schools for the children of their farmers. Source: over 2 years ago