It's a tool for working with clients. Developers get instant payment, auto invoicing, and escrow, while clients get a convenient way to track your work.

After we improve our PR payout tool, our next big feature is a PR Solutions marketplace. This will help link clients to developers.

Ok. I think that would be incredible to have a website where you could just search for projects and features within projects then just get paid per PR to implement that specific feature/bug fix.

Take a look at https://gitcoin.co/

No affiliation but listened to a podcast by the founder a few days ago.

Thanks for the feedback. It is 0.75% from both sides. We tried to write the landing page from the developer’s perspective, but we will change this to make the pricing more clear.

How are your rates so low? Does that not include processing fees from Stripe? (That's what I assume you are using)

Actually, the fees aren't that low: a) stripe charges 0.8% per ACH transaction, so that's almost a 2x profit margin at 1.5% fee; b) stripe also puts a cap of $5 per transaction, so the 2x profit margin is even higher once the transaction is over $625. Always be wary of % fees w/o a cap.

Thanks. I was thinking the Stripe fees would be the 2.9% + $0.30c, but I was looking at the wrong thing.

You can use this as a standalone tool without working through the Upwork marketplace.

Ok, I meant the other side, so 'client needing job done' I guess :)

(EN not my primary language)

The payouts are issued on PR approval, which has mitigated the spamming of low quality work.

> I'm not concerned about the long-term of the project

You're right. With TrapFi, we try to fix this with a high degree of transparency regarding the quality of work that the developer is charging the client for.

> With TrapFi, we try to fix this with a high degree of transparency regarding the quality of work that the developer is charging the client for.

This sounds a bit ominous — you do what exactly to create a high degree of transparency?

We simply link to the pull requests in the client's bill. Also, a repo admin can review the work before a payment is issued.

> it ultimately triggers an investigation and can impact client's reputation within our system

TrapFi will notify all future developers that the client has acted unethically in the past, before you agree to work with them. Truthfully, we have not yet encountered an issue with a client stealing code.

We hear your concerns and see that this is a priority for the community, so we'll work on a more robust solution.

How the PR's are broken up is ultimately at the discretion of the developer.

You could make small PR's into a feature branch and have those reviewed. At the end, you can then tag the big PR for payout.

The FCC is waiting to release it Wednesday or Friday of this week, when a majority of Americans are busy on Holidays or shopping.

Correct, because as everyone knows, when Americans aren't busy shopping or on holiday, they are busy reading new FCC proposals.

regardless, releasing it at that time will reduce the news coverage.

Sure, but they're not listening to public comments anyway so it really doesn't matter.

This thread is just a big circle jerk of non web-developers hating on web development.

Minimize you dependencies, organize your code into easy-to-fit-in-your-head, single-responsibility modules. Write a simpler solution instead of including another 100kb minified mess.

Someone else said it, but I'll repeat it: systems scale, languages don't. Javascript can be as good a language as any if you use it correctly. People bitch about the footguns but don't take the time to design their systems correctly. Yeah, Javascript fucking sucks when you write 10k lines of incoherent JQuery-soup in a single index.js file that provides all the functionality of your shitty asp.net page from 2001. Well no shit? You can write garbage in any language.

/rant