Seems like a way for people to exploit developers from non-US countries for "prototypes" and hours of labor without paying much of anything at all. They offer these bounties in hopes that people apply for the exposure and learning, or from somewhere that the USD carries a lot of weight in the applicant's native currency. Likely not aimed at professional developers from a superpower country looking to make money from odd jobs.
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I suppose that must be what's happening. I wonder about how good the output is from these jobs. I'm almost curious enough to post something there myself just to see what the other side is like.
Same type of thing as fiverr etc. Just stay away.
It's a shame - cause it seems like it could be a neat system. Plus, I would like a way to reduce the cost of all my virtual machines.
Tell me more about your virtual machines.
Not too much to tell really. I run a couple of hobby websites that get 10's to 100's of visitors per month. I have an unnecessary postgres server that keeps a bunch of datasets I've built up over the years for the rare instances where I want to query. I have a couple VMs that just run my web scraping scripts.
In general - they are easier for me to rent and setup than teardown!
When I learned about repl.it bounties my fantasy was something like "Do programming problems get VM credits" and it seemed ideal - but underwhelming in reality.
I would like a way to reduce the cost of all my virtual machines.
Buy a bunch of ebay thinclients and a switch?