There are other platforms for open source bounties , at least some of them I reviewed . I think this one is the best because:
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it’s under a copyleft license, so less of a chance a of it becoming proprietary, also no one can take the code and create a closed source competitor.
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It can show the most funded issues both on the website itself, and for a particular project (e.g. i3 ) this can be a more reliable indicator for how much a feature or bugfix is appreciated by the community then just a “Thumbs Up” on github, it can give people the chance to put their money where their mouth is (the money can even go to some unrelated charity).
Rysolv is a open source platform for posting bounties under the AGPL
It seems cool and fees appear to be low, but it also seems to be a for-profit company based in Delaware, US (which is know for lax fin-tech laws). And they are very wishy-washy about that on their website, almost to the point of hiding this fact…
I don’t think it’s a major issue, it’s not like being a non profit somehow makes it impossible for the organisation to act as a scam.
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It’s a shame it requires js to use it (I guess something to be expected on a 99.1% js project).
With JS enabled: It looks pretty nice and it’s really cool for it to be AGPL (personal opinion).
I just made an account, but seems like I cannot change my password.
And from now on, I guess many people will disagree but, they seem to be using some google service (googletagmanager) and there is no alternative to github. Seems like, although I haven’t tried to solve any issue, you need a github account to actually do stuff. So I don’t like it.
I will have to keep an eye on this project to see how it evolves.
These issues seem like reasonable criticism, I would estimate they would add support in the future to at least gitlab and hopefully gitea/codeberg.
I suggest you open an issue on the bug tracker and maybe even add a bounty (the developers seem responsive, they changed the license to AGPL because of an external request).
