I don't! As mentioned in another comment, I had not heard of them before. I'll be trying them out.

On first blush, it looks fairly close to what's in my head - so perhaps this is not a thing to chase.

The one critical difference I can spot early on is that their system appears to be closed-source. Were I to do it, it would for sure be open. I want to see a method of supporting yourself with code far more than I want to make money myself. For example, in this moment, I like what they're doing and would love to contribute to the work myself to empower the goal of having more indie software devs in the world, but I would have to quit job (not happening), apply (might not get hired), and then work on whatever features are in the business' best interests (which won't necessarily be in the user's best interests).

All that said, they did it already and I didn't, so hats off to them. I hope bountysource gains more traction in the future.

Edit: another reason to have <bountysource-clone> be open source, is to recurse the value add. The site would develop in the same way any open source project does (if / when they get popular): by people implementing what they consider the most critical features.

Bounty source requires you to finish the work before you get paid, how are you supposed to assemble a development team around that? Prefunding is still unsolved.

Edit: Take an existing opensource crowdfunding platform and try to make it suitable for crowdfunding opensource projects, perhaps the first campaign could be for goteo itself?

Sounds like Gitcoin is what you want then, it's like bounty source but completely open source itself and promoting open source software.

Because it's his idea and he can do it better than them. he's also got luck on his side.

While this sounds tongue in cheek, it's probably true. I'd bet 9 time out of 10, this is what literally happens.

I know that for my highly successful business that I started, I thought I could do it better, and I was in the right place at the right time (luck)

This is both strange, and refreshing to hear on HN. Luck.

Quite possibly a forbidden word in the worldview of US Media, VC and Tech.

The tech mogul who denies luck exists and contributes all of their success to their own ingenuity and prowess is a straw man. Perhaps with a few notable exceptions, that person simply does not exist.

Everyone knows luck exists, and almost everyone acknowledges it plays a key role in one's success.

Luck and hard work do seem to correlate, but they are certainly entirely separate (and both are essential to success).

I don't believe I can succeed where they failed- hadn't heard of em! would be awesome to not have to build it myself, so I'll go check em out.

What's the business? My interested is piqued.

See my profile :)