Liberapay VS BountySource

Liberapay Reviews

BountySource Reviews

Liberapay mentions (28)

• Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

  Reminder that librapay exists, and their developers are only paid from user donations, just like anyone else on the platform. https://liberapay.com/ (I only wish their CC costs could be reduced a bit to make micropayments viable). - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

  I don't think they want your money, not unless you are an enterprise costumer. But feel free to donate to another open source project: https://liberapay.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover | Mastodon

  I often see links to Liberapay and Open Collective (Liberapay even has an official Mastodon account). Source: over 1 year ago

• The Asymmetry of Open Source: "Users need open source projects, but open source projects do not need users"

  It seems a little suspicious that the person sharing those posts isn't building an open platform himself -- why not make it more open /u/paydevs ? I think Liberapay is a great way to spontaneously pay OSS developers. I'm not opposed to paydevs.com (as far as they're showing), but I encourage increasing transparency and openness, as is I don't feel confident supporting the platform. I think individuals, governments... Source: over 1 year ago

• The problems of working on Open-Source, summarized by Benjamin Lupton (500m monthly downloads)

  This doesn't seem to mention liberapay (and patreon which funds developers directly. Source: over 1 year ago

BountySource mentions (13)

• whats the best bounty hunt program for foss projects?

  Well I used in the past https://bountysource.com/ but I don't see many people working on the bounties. Source: 5 months ago

• Is coding in Rust as bad as in C++?

  It is the first time I see it directly in GitHub, but there are already sites like https://bountysource.com which offer that. Source: over 1 year ago

• Business model for company contributing to open source?

  So more like open-source bounties and platforms like Bountysource. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to donate

  I found a way to donate to a specific bounty on bountysource.com, but no way to support SCInitiative on https://thesciencecommons.org/donate/... No wallet, no bank account... Am I missing something? Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there a paid service that promises to fix Linux issues?

  Https://bountysource.com/ is the most famous one I know of, although there are others: https://alternativeto.net/software/bountysource/. Source: over 1 year ago