CleverCrow: community-funded coding agents that work under maintainer control

Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

CleverCrow flips the AI-slop problem: instead of random contributors flooding repos with half-baked PRs, community members pool a few dollars against an issue. The maintainer then directs a sandboxed agent (no git access, no push rights) to plan, code, run CI, and open a draft PR. Maintainers approve every step, with up to five review rounds. Unspent funds are refunded to backers. The platform is free for maintainers and charges a 20% fee on agent token costs. One example shows a $5-funded issue that spent $0.34 and returned $4.66. I'd discount that a bit—only one case is shown, and complex cross-project fixes aren't tested yet.

Why it matters: Fresh angle, concrete mechanics, hits a real pain point for open-source maintainers. But it's a brand-new launch with no user numbers or case studies, so it lands right at the featured threshold.