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by JustMatthew 2880 days ago
The crowdfunded aspect is interesting, and I like how the total value crowdfunded (i.e. the total bounty pot or pool) is displayed. That could serve as powerful signal to attract bounty hunters.

That said, as a non-coder but an avid bounty setter and bounty hunter on beta.cent.co, I am wondering if there aren't any other UX tweaks that could be employed on BountyGraph to either attract and keep more bounty hunters or participating corporate users/funders or both.

Specifically, the social aspect that Cent facilitates has resulted in a very interesting general community that also functions as an army of on-demand bounty hunters. I imagine something similar but tailored to the technical bounty hunters your site will need could be spun up at a cost to be sure, but a relatively small one compared to the value that attracting such an army of bounty hunters could generate.

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Hi, apologies for not replying to this last week when you originally posted this!

I think this is really good feedback, and I agree it would be very cool to build a community of hackers on BountyGraph. I'd really like to build a "write-ups" feature into the site where users can post about interesting bugs they've found. We haven't built a reputation system yet either, which is definitely going to be important down the road.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Very awesome to hear (err read). Looking forward to those updates. Cheers.