Bounties are like "if you find the solution to my problem, I'll give you $Y."

But every time I think about writing a bounty, I worry it's not going to be very helpful. Because people often don't vet their solutions that much. It takes a lot of time to decide if the potential solution is an actual solution.

e.g. I say "$30 if you find me a place that will give me a dental appointment in the next week." 3 people suggest dentists they like; they each say "try calling this person!" No one actually called the dentists to ask for availability. I take what I can get; I call them myself. Dentist 2 has availability next week. Oof, this didn't save me that much time; I could've just googled for local dentists. Am I supposed to pay out now?

e.g. I say "$500 to fix my nighttime breathing problems," and then I get these suggestions: buteyko, Wim Hof, sleep study. But then I spend 2h reading about buteyko and learn it would take me 1 month of regular practice before I should expect to see results. (And maybe it just won't fix my problems at all.) It's going to take me more than $500 of additional time/money to evaluate each potential solution, so it'd be great if people only made suggestions with a high probability of success -- but how do I make that happen?

Even if verifying a solution takes just 5min on my end, if 20 people make suggestions, then that's going to take me a lot of time.

I wish I could say "if you make my problem disappear with as-little-work-as-possible on my end, I'll give you $Y." But it seems hard to operationalize for different problems.