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Google is already doing this for a while now. Instead of Ads they get feedback about products and services.

Why ask about Ads when you really want to know consumer's thoughts on products??

They decided to make this distinct (at-least from user's perspective) from AdWords/AdSense, which is an awesome idea. And you get play store credits for answers!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Free Advise: Coding doesn't solve any problem by itself. Business models do.

true. this can be compared with learning math(or any foreign language for that matter). you can have a one page cheat-sheet of all the rules and formulas, but that can only help you solve textbook problems. there are tricks and caveats that are learnt only by practice. googling 'how-to' is a very slow process, even with stackoverflow.

this may be a great way to go about in hackathons where one has very less to loose and success is greatly rewarding. if nothing, at least you learn something new. contrarily, in a startup a lot of things are on bet - money, opportunity, time - or may even mean difference between success and failure. it all boils down to reward-risk tradeoff.

While it would be great for him to get paid more than 5k for such high nuisance value bug, it'll be a bit difficult to figure out a metric to fairly put a price on a bug. Bug bounties are based on efforts and not on what you happen to find. Its like a lottery and it seems just about right for companies to keep a standard reward for all bugs. I really like the idea of paying for time spent+bug reward though.