Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

# CleverCrow · Community-funded coding agents for maintainers Source: [https://clevercrow.io/](https://clevercrow.io/) ## Flip the*script*on AI slop\. Random contributors are using AI to flood your queue with half\-baked PRs\. CleverCrow flips the model: your community funds the issues they care about,*you*direct the agent, and nothing touches your codebase until you approve it\.*Your backlog, funded and shipped, on your terms\.* $5, not $500 ### Back the issues you depend on\. Pledge a few dollars against any open issue, or back a whole repo to cover every issue, including the ones opened next\. Pledges pool with other backers' until there's enough for the maintainer to press Start;**your wallet stays untouched until they do**\. You're buying compute and maintainer attention, not a stranger's weekend\. Unspent → refunded ### Pay for what runs, keep the rest\. The run debits the provider's token cost plus a 10% platform fee as it works, every charge itemised on your wallet ledger, and**whatever the run doesn't spend comes straight back to your wallet**when the PR merges or closes\. The strongest nudge ### Recruit the maintainer\. Repo not on CleverCrow yet? Back the issue anyway and the dashboard writes the invite for you to post on the thread\.**A backer with money already on the line**is the credible version of "you should try this", and a funded pool waiting is the strongest onboarding pitch a maintainer can get\. ### The community pays for the compute, not you\. An agent on your laptop bills your card for other people's bug reports\. Here the people who**want**the fix fund it: backers pool a few dollars against the issue, the run draws from the pool, and you never reach for your wallet\. ### The whole workflow comes packaged\. Funding pool, plan approval gate, draft PR, CI\-fix rounds, review\-feedback rounds, settlement and refunds:**one Start click runs the loop end to end**, with you at every gate that matters\. No terminal babysitting, no prompt wrangling, no copy\-pasting CI logs\. ### The agent works in a padded room\. It runs in a credential\-less sandbox:**no git, no push rights, no tokens, no way to touch your repo**\. A separate, locked\-down service applies the diff and opens the draft PR\. That's a stronger boundary than an agent running on your machine with your keys loaded\. Aesop · The Crow and the Pitcher Little by little does the*trick*\. One 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\.