{"slug": "show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects", "title": "Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects", "summary": "CleverCrow launches a platform that lets communities fund open-source issues with tokens, then directs an AI agent to implement fixes under maintainer approval. The system pools small pledges, runs the agent in a sandbox, and refunds unused compute costs, aiming to reduce AI-generated spam and align incentives.", "body_md": "# Flip the *script* on AI slop.\n\nRandom contributors are using AI to flood your queue with\nhalf-baked PRs. CleverCrow flips the model: your community funds\nthe issues they care about, *you* direct the agent, and\nnothing touches your codebase until you approve it.\n*Your backlog, funded and shipped, on your terms.*\n\nOne run, end to end\n\n*Little by little*, it ships.\n\nSmall pledges pool until a run can start, then you steer it from funded to merged. The agent works for you, not the other way around. Scroll to follow one issue through its whole life.\n\n*See* what's funded.\n\nAs community members back a public issue in your repo, CleverCrow keeps a single comment in sync with the funding pool. You decide which funded issues to take on, nothing runs without your direction.\n\n*Direct* the plan.\n\nThe agent drafts a plan in a credential-less sandbox, no git access, no push rights. Iterate until the approach fits your codebase, then greenlight it.\n\n*Codes and tests* in isolation.\n\nThe agent implements the approved plan and opens a draft PR on an\n`agent/*`\n\nbranch. CI runs as normal; if it fails, send the\nagent back to fix it.\n\n*Review* on your terms.\n\nRead the diff, leave feedback, request a revision. Up to five rounds, all in the open. Nothing merges until you're satisfied.\n\n*Merge*, and settle up.\n\nYour community funded the compute; you ship the code. Whatever the run didn't spend goes straight back to your backers' wallets.\n\n### Pebble queue is eventually consistent; crow is immediately thirsty\n\nFunded · readysyrinxian/pitcher · issue #19\n\n**$4.66 unused** returned to the backer's wallet.\n\nFor backers\n\n## Fund the fix, *not a fork*.\n\nThat bug in your dependency that's blocked you for six months? Human bounties price it in the hundreds and stall waiting for a stranger to bite. Here you fund the compute, a few dollars, and the maintainer who knows the codebase drives the fix home.\n\n### Back the issues you depend on.\n\nPledge a few dollars against any open issue, or back a whole repo\nto cover every issue, including the ones opened next. Pledges pool\nwith other backers' until there's enough for the maintainer to\npress Start; **your wallet stays untouched until they\ndo**. You're buying compute and maintainer attention, not\na stranger's weekend.\n\n### Pay for what runs, keep the rest.\n\nThe run debits the provider's token cost plus a 20% platform\nfee as it works, every charge itemised on your wallet ledger,\nand **whatever the run doesn't spend comes straight back\nto your wallet** when the PR merges or closes.\n\n### Recruit the maintainer.\n\nRepo not on CleverCrow yet? Back the issue anyway and the\ndashboard writes the invite for you to post on the thread.\n**A backer with money already on the line** is the\ncredible version of \"you should try this\", and a funded pool\nwaiting is the strongest onboarding pitch a maintainer can get.\n\nFair question\n\n## Why not just run an agent *yourself*?\n\nYou could: coding agents are everywhere. Three honest reasons maintainers run them through CleverCrow instead.\n\n### The community pays for the compute, not you.\n\nAn agent on your laptop bills your card for other people's bug\nreports. Here the people who **want** the fix fund\nit: backers pool a few dollars against the issue, the run draws\nfrom the pool, and you never reach for your wallet.\n\n### The whole workflow comes packaged.\n\nFunding pool, plan approval gate, draft PR, CI-fix rounds,\nreview-feedback rounds, settlement and refunds:\n**one Start click runs the loop end to end**, with\nyou at every gate that matters. No terminal babysitting, no\nprompt wrangling, no copy-pasting CI logs.\n\n### The agent works in a padded room.\n\nIt runs in a credential-less sandbox: **no git, no push\nrights, no tokens, no way to touch your repo**. A\nseparate, locked-down service applies the diff and opens the\ndraft PR. That's a stronger boundary than an agent running on\nyour machine with your keys loaded.\n\nAesop · The Crow and the Pitcher\n\nLittle by little does the *trick*.\n\nOne funded issue at a time, the work gets done. Your community funds it. Your preferred coding agent builds it. You iterate until it's ready to ship.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects", "canonical_source": "https://clevercrow.io", "published_at": "2026-06-21 19:06:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 19:35:00.858669+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "generative-ai", "ai-products"], "entities": ["CleverCrow", "Aesop"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-clevercrow-give-tokens-to-your-favorite-projects.jsonld"}}