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To spice things up, I am considering a usability contest where the most used GUI gets an additional bonus. By having a specific deadline for tallying the usage, this incentives an early release, but of course if it is early but not so good, it wont get much usage.

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The bonus amount I want to be big enough to get some project management types to manage a few devs. To achieve this effect, I am proposing a $100,000 USD equivalent of KMD (max of 50,000)

So if you can manage a barterDEX GUI project, you can get it accepted as a bounty setaside to make sure that you recoup your costs and also get a shot at the $100,000 bonus. In addition to the nice money bonus, the winning GUI will become the official barterDEX GUI, which will of course establish whoever created this to be a bona fide award winning GUI dev (team).

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Feedback appreciated, this is an idea that is in the process of being formed so now is the time for feedback before it becomes set. The 10,000 per GUI is already set, but the number of approved GUI projects is not and the specific way the winning GUI will be selected is not finalized

Hi jl777,

At first I wish to thank you for your efforts and time in this project. I really love your work and your professional approach. That's why I'm an absolute believer in this project.

BTT: I'm thinking with this bonus we should be able to hire some professional developers or a project leader. At the moment I'm leading an outsourcing project with some IT engineers based in India and our company is based in Europe. There are really good people there and they have a salary of 1.000 - 1.500$ per month (with master degree and several years of working experience). Also in East Europe there are smart and well educated people which are having lesser living costs than in other countries. Perhaps it would be a smart idea to hire some of them and paying them a fix, generous salary in USD? Because I'm not sure if we will find the right people here in the crypto market. That way we are also able to complete some different GUIs with different technologies in a few weeks or months.

Just a few thoughts from my side.

Best regards!

Well, jl777 IS a "professional developer" and project leader. Actually, there is quite a team already in place:

See https://komodoplatform.com/#about

and

https://www.supernet.org/en/supernet/team

Also many on that team are already in paid positions.

Oh. I think it got lost in translation. Sorry for that.

I know jl777 is a professional developer and project leader. I've been a fan of his work since 2014 with BTCD. And I'm also aware of the professional team around him.

But instead looking for somebody in this community who develop a GUI and offering him a payment in KMD (in the worth of 10.000 USD), my proposal was to hire some more fulltime developers for the GUI development and pay them in USD. So to say in the form of a real project outsourcing initiative.

The idea is to enhance our inhouse GUI development with external GUI dev (team)

The bounty and prize should provide a very good risk reward to competent GUI devs and even a good project manager could put together a team with the 10,000 KMD as a budget and get a chance at the $100,000 prize.

decentralizing GUI development.

For all those that complain about GUI development speed, we can see whether its true that you can just magically get GUI done by offering money for it.