Bountysource

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Bountysource
Type of site
Crowdfunding, bounties
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
URLwww.bountysource.com
CommercialYes
Launched2003, relaunch in 2012

Bountysource is a

source-code, Bountysource will transfer the money acting as a trustee during the whole process. [1] [2]

History

Bountysource was started in the 2000s and by May 8, 2006, had integrated a new custom-built

SourceForge.net. The website was originally written in PHP, but as of March 18, 2006, it switched to Ruby on Rails.[5] Development on Bountysource was stopped in March 2008.[6]

It relaunched as a service using the

API in 2012 to focus on being a trustee for software development bounties that are collected through PayPal, Bitcoin, and other methods.[7][8]

In 2017, the company was bought by a cryptocurrency company called CanYa.

In 2020 it was bought by a company named The Blockchain Group, which became the owner on July 1. [9][10]

As of June 2023, Bountysource appears to have stopped paying bounties to developers with verified claims. The Blockchain Group also appears to have stopped responding to Bountysource users.[11][12]

As of March 2024, Bountysource website says "The site is temporarily down".[13]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 1291761764
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  2. ^ Bourse, Zone. "The Blockchain group : Nicolas le Herissier – Bounty Source | Zone bourse". www.zonebourse.com (in French).
  3. ^ David Rappo (8 May 2006). "New SVN Browser Added". Bounty Source - Development. Archived from the original on 2006-11-19. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  4. ^ David Rappo (11 May 2006). "Bounty Source's SVN Browser is now Open Source!". Bounty Source - bsSvnBrowser. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  5. ^ David Rappo (18 March 2006). "Welcome to Bounty Source v0.2". Bounty Source - Development. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  6. ^ David Rappo (9 March 2008). "So long and thanks for all the fish". Bounty Source - Development. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  7. ^ Lunduke, Bryan (2013-08-07). "Open source gets its own crowd-funding site, with bounties included - Bountysource is the crowd-funding site the open source community has been waiting for". networkworld.com. Retrieved 2013-08-10. Many open source projects (from phones to programming tools) have taken to crowd-funding sites (such as Kickstarter and indiegogo) in order to raise the cash needed for large-scale development. And, in some cases, this has worked out quite well.
  8. ^ "Bountysource Raises $1.1 Million for the First Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Projects". finance.yahoo.com. 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  9. ^ "The Blockchain Group annonce l'acquisition de BountySource aux États-Unis et une augmentation de capital par placement privé - The Blockchain Group". 2021-03-03. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  10. ^ MarketScreener. "The Blockchain Group acquired Bountysource Inc. | MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  11. ^ "What is wrong with your support and cash out process?". www.github.com. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
  12. ^ "[CRITICAL] Bountysource Escrow, Complain @ dfpi.ca.gov · Issue #1586 · bountysource/core". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  13. ^ "Bountysource temporarily down". 2025-04-24. Archived from the original on 2024-03-17.

External links

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