Can I pay someone to add a specific feature to an open source app?
Can I pay someone to add a specific feature to an open source app?
I'm not a programmer, so I can't really do it myself. Is it allowed for me to go to some random dude, pay him 20 bucks to write the code, then have him add it to the GitHub?
(If you're wondering what the app/feature is, I want to be able to shuffle play on the findroid app like you would be able to on the jellyfin web interface )
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Yeah but you're gonna need a lot more than $20.
Developers usually make $50-300/hour. Some features require 8-2000 hours to develop.
So do the math and offer a realistic bounty to pay the dev for their time, and they'll probably do it.
Developers usually make $50-300/hour.
That seems like an overestimate even for US. More importantly, I don't think most open source developers earn this much money (otherwise they wouldn't ask for tiny donations), and hence it's not the relevant figure. If I'm wrong about this, please do tell me - I very much would like to know if the hours I occasionally spend on open-source contributions can instead earn me hundreds of dollars. ;)
You’re not wrong, I don’t know why people are downvoting you.
Somehow they believe the wages paid in the US is normalized everywhere else.
Some senior developers in the EU for example make a salary of ~60k euro. Which roughly translate to 30 hourly.
Not to mention third world country where all these Corporations outsource their work.
Mind you OP asked about a open source project and not a scaled enterprise software
Apply for a grant. That's how you make money on open source contributions
Application writing is a completely different skill from application writing.
Some jobs require you to be good at more than one thing
If those skills don't overlap, you'll be half as good at each. Some jobs need a dedicated specialist.
There's definitely folks that are good at writing grants and writing code.
If you're not good at both, then maybe freelance Foss Dev isn't for you