I understand. Let me rephrase that. What you provide is nice, has the easy feeling of providing some value, but is IMO typical of many startups. You just used whatever API was available to you, and used them to build a product on top that some people may want, but does not solve a hard problem. There exist competitors (gittip, code bounties), albeit not as integrated with Github.
Solving a hard problem in this case would be doing the things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ). That is, providing the tools to oil the development process by incentivizing the boring yet essential tasks that I talked about (QA, triaging, etc.).
And I don't mean that you provide no value. It's indeed quite an interesting proposition. I just don't see it going further than a side project you'll have to maintain forever for a small revenue on top of your current job. Which is perfectly fine, I have a few of those myself.
Solving a hard problem in this case would be doing the things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ). That is, providing the tools to oil the development process by incentivizing the boring yet essential tasks that I talked about (QA, triaging, etc.).
And I don't mean that you provide no value. It's indeed quite an interesting proposition. I just don't see it going further than a side project you'll have to maintain forever for a small revenue on top of your current job. Which is perfectly fine, I have a few of those myself.