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A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties

by taariqlewis on 1/15/20, 3:37 PM with 55 comments

• by ghall on 1/15/20, 4:46 PM

  @TaariqLewis, thanks for posting! Let's catch up soon!

  Team, I'm the author/owner of the repo and would be happy to answer questions.

  We were inspired by the concept some fellow MIT alumni used to win the DARPA red balloon challenge, using a Query Incentive Network to provide superior scale and reach with a distributed payout structure. Results have been very strong so far, here is some more detail on the theory: https://blog.rezscore.com/the-red-balloon-experiment-fab19a0...

  We'd love to get your thoughts and questions on the concept, particularly as it comes to how to best organize this new GitHub repo to best help you in your job search.

• by drefno on 1/15/20, 11:14 PM

  For the love of all that is sacred please no-one decide it would be a great startup idea to create a jobs site with bounties.

  You might think it’s an opportunity because you don’t see anyone else doing it. That’s because people have been doing trying and failing at this exact concept for at least 15 years.

  There’s a deep and wide startup graveyard dedicated specifically to job sites with bounties/referrals.

  There, I just saved you years of pointless effort. Expend your energy money time relationships and life on something else.

  Unless of course you think you’ll be doing it right/better/different/with a twist/with better timing etc. in which case you must understand you should go straight to the very very large section of that startup graveyard dedicated to those who were smarter than all the others who tried, then pour your money into the next open grave.

• by yayajacky on 1/15/20, 4:45 PM

  I think remote contract only repo (in a separate repo) would be great! Thanks for putting in the work, literally

• by taariqlewis on 1/15/20, 4:53 PM

  My particular interest in this project was that if the many interviews I explore for a job end in rejects, then at least maybe I might get paid a referral bonus as a sourcer for the job. After spending 6 hours onsite and getting denied, seems only fair to get paid if I can help source?

• by random_kris on 1/15/20, 10:22 PM

  If a hire is made, the employer will apportion the bounty to everybody who helped sourced the final candidate, so it pays to spread these links where appropriate.

  I don't understand this part. So let's say I recommend someone to apply for a job. I get the bounty? Who else would it be shared with?

  If someone else shares my link to someone and that someone gets recruited, how does the system know that someone else invited him?

  Cool idea anyway

• by jonbarker on 1/15/20, 6:08 PM

  Can we please call this project "git jobs"?

• by ghostoftiber on 1/15/20, 6:32 PM

  Who "owns" the repo? Why have this structure compared to linkedin jobs or whatever?

• by noitsnot on 1/15/20, 4:54 PM

  Why are the bounties so low when a recruitement company would easily take 15-20%+?

• by WrtCdEvrydy on 1/15/20, 4:43 PM

  Is there support for delayed payouts? (we do six months after hiring)

• by sixtypoundhound on 1/15/20, 4:53 PM

  I love it - any restrictions on setting up an ad program on my blog and feeding candidates into the process?

  (I've got a relevant audience, so not spam)

• by gargs on 1/15/20, 7:50 PM

  Thanks for the effort! It looks amazing.

  I do hope that more remote opportunities are posted. I am an iOS developer who has worked remotely for the last 5 years, but increasingly noticing the trend towards fewer remote opportunities. In the age of constant high-bandwidth video communication you'd imagine that the reverse would hold true.

• by dpix on 1/15/20, 4:48 PM

  How does the bounty work?

• by hanniabu on 1/15/20, 4:21 PM

  This sounds like decentralized recruiting.

• by hmhecht on 1/15/20, 7:57 PM

  Awesome, nice work. And kudos on the rapid responses to feedback in this thread!

• by jonbarker on 1/15/20, 6:20 PM

  @ghall Is there a planned feature where one might generate a list of the most frequent keywords and market needs to guide one's self study efforts?

• by tuxone on 1/16/20, 12:59 AM

  Is there any other reasonable purpose for this repo than generating traffic to the affiliated website?

• by liquidjoe on 1/15/20, 4:15 PM

  I hope I find a job on there.