Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?
I&#x27;m building an open source company (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyroscope-io&#x2F;pyroscope) where we&#x27;re very upfront about intent to eventually monetize via cloud-hosted version as many open source companies do.<p>We, in a way, have financial upside to people completing (some) of the issues we&#x27;ve posted, so sometimes it feels like it would be mutually beneficial to pass some of that through to the contributors as people contribute.<p>I&#x27;m wondering... if we added a &quot;bounty&#x2F;reward&quot; in the issue text that said we&#x27;d pay $X amount for someone to resolve the issue, would that make people more or less likely to contribute?<p>On one hand it seems to go against the historic &quot;vibe&quot; of open-source, but on the other commercial open-source seems much more acceptable these days and would maybe be a nice bonus for the. contributor.<p>Any thoughts, experience, or ideas here? Anyone have experience really incentivizing people to contribute to open source?