CleverCrow
Pools small monetary contributions from community members to fund open-source issue fixes, paying maintainers when their pull request merges.
CleverCrow is a community funding platform that pools small monetary contributions from users to incentivize developers to fix open-source issues. It solves the problem of important bugs or feature requests languishing in backlogs by providing a financial reward for maintainers who close them. The platform targets developers, maintainers, and backers within open-source communities, including individual developers and companies that depend on open-source software. It differentiates itself by avoiding bots, invoices, and PR spam, and by allowing maintainers to work in their own tools and workflow, with a flat 10% fee on successful payouts.
Key features
- Pooled community funding for issues
- Flat 10% fee on payouts
- Backers can withdraw until fix ships
- Automatic PR linking to funding pool
- Public backing page with live updates
- Receipts for every settled issue
- Invite maintainers to join platform
- No social media activity within the last 30 days
- No GTM activity detected
- Software developers
- Engineering teams
- Startups