Hi Hacker News,
Hiring the wrong developer can cost a company around 30% of that hire’s annual salary.
With IssuePay, companies can spend just a few less bucks on real open-source issues from their own repositories and get their work done.
Contributors get paid while proving their skills, and companies get a signal for who delivers high-quality work.
Most companies already run informal bounty systems, across Discord, forums, GitHub issues, etc. It works, but it’s fragmented and hard to scale.
So what we try to do is centralize that ecosystem, your bounties reach a much wider audience. Developers who don’t know your project yet, but contribute to similar ones, can discover your tasks alongside ones they already care about. That exposure brings in new contributors who might never have found you otherwise.
And here’s the next step, once a contributor has successfully completed tasks, we can match them to open roles at your company. With git history, contributions, and performance already visible, a small open-source contribution can turn into a full hiring, streamlining the process from task to job offer.
In short, IssuePay helps you amplify your existing workflow while creating a more reliable way to find and hire talent.
Mario10•1h ago
With IssuePay, companies can spend just a few less bucks on real open-source issues from their own repositories and get their work done. Contributors get paid while proving their skills, and companies get a signal for who delivers high-quality work.
Most companies already run informal bounty systems, across Discord, forums, GitHub issues, etc. It works, but it’s fragmented and hard to scale.
So what we try to do is centralize that ecosystem, your bounties reach a much wider audience. Developers who don’t know your project yet, but contribute to similar ones, can discover your tasks alongside ones they already care about. That exposure brings in new contributors who might never have found you otherwise.
And here’s the next step, once a contributor has successfully completed tasks, we can match them to open roles at your company. With git history, contributions, and performance already visible, a small open-source contribution can turn into a full hiring, streamlining the process from task to job offer.
In short, IssuePay helps you amplify your existing workflow while creating a more reliable way to find and hire talent.