Do any developers here use Gitcoin at all?

Cromulent · 2 Jul 2019 at 02:37

I've just come across Gitcoin and think it looks pretty impressive.

https://gitcoin.co

Basically, you get paid to contribute to open source projects on Github (I'm not sure if they support other Git platforms like Gitlab though). It might make me look into helping out with some open source projects as getting a little bit of money would help me out at the moment.

chroniclard · 2 Jul 2019 at 09:24

Have you actually authorised it for your git account and seen whats on there? curious.....

Cromulent · 2 Jul 2019 at 09:49

chroniclard said:
Have you actually authorised it for your git account and seen whats on there? curious.....

Yep. But I need to upload my CV which I am currently updating before I can see any jobs.

chroniclard · 2 Jul 2019 at 09:50

Ah right, thought you could just browse them. Let us know what sort of stuff is on there.

Cromulent · 2 Jul 2019 at 11:02

chroniclard said:
Ah right, thought you could just browse them. Let us know what sort of stuff is on there.

I've just had a bit of a look at some of the jobs available. There seems to be a wide variety available from jobs in the $2 to $3 range all the way up to hundreds of dollars. I put myself down as a beginner developer (less than 3 years experience) so I'm not sure what the intermediate or advanced developer jobs are like.

mid_gen · 2 Jul 2019 at 20:24

Quite happy contributing for free myself.

It'll suffer the same problems as all the other online freelancing websites, i.e. they're worthless for anyone living in a first world country because you'll be undercut by people that can live off a few dollars a day.

roccles · 3 Jul 2019 at 09:58

mid_gen said:
Quite happy contributing for free myself.

This

Although I do think companies making a fortune off the back of it should really be contributing more than they are.