By beggars on Skatehive
Open bounties have always worked well when you want competition: post a job, let people submit, pick the best one. The model falls apart the moment a project actually needs to assign someone specific (instead of competing on a work level, you compete on a qualified for the task level instead). Two contributors can do the same work, only one gets paid, and the other finds out too late. So Projects now does assignment-based tasks on HiveBounty. What's new contributors can apply before starting work owners can accept an applicant or assign someone directly only the assigned contributor can submit the delivery task discussion is private by default, and owners can lock it to private only assignees can request deadline extensions when the owner allows it owners can extend deadlines directly, and every change is recorded on the task funded assigned tasks can't be quietly cancelled and refunded by the owner Escrow itself hasn't changed. HIVE, HBD, and Hive Engine tokens are still supported, fu