For a full-time senior developer in HCOL areas in the US (New York, San Francisco, etc.), yes, or at least close to it if you’d expect them to work 40+ hours a week, just like they would at Big Tech...
Someone needs to add crowdfunding to https://catallax.network and we can start doing this tomorrow.
https://catallax.network/use-cases#open-source-software-and-bug-bounties-
Put up a bounty for a feature in X open source client, assign it to the original author of the client, get the zaps, do the work. The client dev gets paid, the community gets their feature.
https://catallax.network/use-cases#open-source-software-and-bug-bounties-
Put up a bounty for a feature in X open source client, assign it to the original author of the client, get the zaps, do the work. The client dev gets paid, the community gets their feature.