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HackerOne
Email zpedracci@hackerone.com and she'll take care of you. Hackerone is the best bounty program and you'll get way more hackers than just making a page on your own website.
Gitcoin
Gitcoin in 1 Minute or Less
What is Gitcoin anyway?
Gitcoin is a double-sided marketplace that lets you take any GitHub issue and bounty it in any ERC20 token (and eventually other types of tokens). This makes it easy to engage new contributors in your repositories, and build an on-demand team of developers you know you can work well with. To date we've worked with 400+ different repos and with most projects in the Ethereum ecosystem including the Ethereum Foundation (and related projects such as Prysmatic Labs), MakerDAO, Status, MetaMask, Trail of Bits, and more.
How would doing bounties actually help move my project forward?
There are usually three main goals when projects like Status use Gitcoin:1) Engaging developers to build on top of your platform (e.g. having developers try out and document your project / build example applications)2) Offloading non-core work that's taking time away from mission critical or more complex tasks (e.g. implementing core cryptography libraries vs. updating your website)3) Extending your core team by finding developers you can work well with on the platform
Isn't it a lot of work to manage external contributors?
It doesn't have to be, but for projects that aren't used to working with external contributors it definitely can be. That's why we offer a 'managed bounty' service where we essentially abstract away most of the work required to define issues, post bounties, find the right contributors, and answer any questions they have along the way. We charge about 5-10% of the bountied amounts for this service depending on task volume and complexity. If you want to learn more about this option feel free to reach out to scott@gitcoin.co
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