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Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-08-19 22:23:37 UTC to 2023-11-26 05:17:27 UTC.

012342013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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jaspervdj·Nov 21, 2017
Explanation in this comment: https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1147#issuecommen... On July 27, we reached out to Bountysource in response to a complaint we received from a user. During our investigation and discussions with members of your team, we found that your organization does not have a mechanism for responding to removal requests from users, which is required by our Terms of Service. Specifically, Bountysource does not "respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and 'do not contact' requests from GitHub or GitHub Users." Over two months later, you have not made any changes to your platform in response to our requests. Therefore, we have suspended your application until you create a process for actively responding to all personal information removal requests, including those related to proje
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cts and issues. In order for us to remove the suspension, we would ask to see two things: 1. Confirmation from you that you have a process in place for responding to takedown requests about all areas of your website. 2. Inclusion of a public notice to your users stating how to request the removal of information. That notice can be included in your documentation or other legal notices. Once you have that process and public notice in place, we'll be happy to review your site and consider lifting the suspension. Sounds like it's (hopefully) not permanent.
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Changaco·Jun 9, 2016
As others have pointed out, platforms to fund work on open source projects already exist, and the best part is: they're open source themselves, so you can contribute! In fact I was the top developer of Gratipay for a year myself, and now I've created a fork called Liberapay (the reasons were the legal difficulties Gratipay faced in the US, and the decision its founder made to turn it into a non-neutral platform). Links: https://liberapay.com/ https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com (Python) https://gratipay.com/ https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com (Python) https://salt.bountysource.com/ https://github.com/bountysource/core (Ruby) https://snowdrift.coop/ (not operational) https://git.snowdrift.coop/sd/snowdrift (Haskell)
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