# Welcome to GitGig!

### 🚨 We are working on audits and will notify once they are complete- use at your own risk!

### 👋🏼What is Gitgig?

Welcome! We are building a tool that enables any open-source community to post and claim bounties on GitHub issues seamlessly, enabling freelance contributors and maintainers to build decentralised reputation for their professional resumes. 

### ⭐️ Vision and Mission 

Our vision is to catalyze a global community of open-source projects where developers are empowered using **bounties** that fuel progress and **decentralized identities** to enable communities through **trustless** systems. 

### 🚦 The Problem 

Lack of incentives: Contributors and maintainers **lack tangible incentives** to contribute. Funding is difficult to source, and maintainers and contributors receive no compensation for their work. 

Poor Co-ordination: Inefficient processes for **issue prioritisation** can lead to issues being unattended for extended periods resulting in **unsustainable** and poor dependency management for open-source repositories

Talent Sourcing: Open source projects **struggle to allocate resources** strategically and **identify qualified and reliable talent** for task completion, particularly in industries dominated by freelance remote workforces

### 💡The Solution 

**Empower the gig economy: Balanced incentivization** and prioritization through bounties on opensource projects for global talent in a **merit-based** gig economy

**Intergrated Bounty Management:** Ensure bounty distribution through **trusted smart contracts** and bounty claims through Web3 wallets in a fully GitHub-**integrated workflow** without the need for project onboarding

**Verifiable Reputation:** Enable contributors and maintainers to develop profiles with verified **on-chain reputation** based on their professional work resume