How Expensify works with the OS community to ’Live Rich, Have Fun & Save the World’
summary
Expensify open sources its new Expensify Chat and runs a paid contributor workflow that moves a validated bug from a Slack report to an upstream GitHub fix and an Upwork job in a single day, with a custom GitHub integration that creates jobs from labels and lets titles change bounties. Community roles review PRs, handle releases and migrate the codebase to hooks and TypeScript in weeks. Program metrics: over 3,600 jobs, over $3M paid, 1,200+ community members and 131 hires in 2022, with bounties starting at $250 bug report, $1,000+ bug fix and a top payout of *$60,000+.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to Expensify
- 1:05What Expensify does
- 2:28Expensify Chat vision
- 3:55Open source approach
- 4:57Engineering capacity challenge
- 5:39Bug bounty program details
- 7:03Managing open source community
- 10:12Community values explained
- 13:02Program statistics and impact
- 14:27Concrete examples of success
- 16:14Expensify Con X conference
- 17:19Save the world initiatives
- 19:02Open source migration efforts
- 20:07Call to action and conclusion
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