Ah yes, clearly the one thing I want from my favorite projects is for them to embrace AI coding and immediately deskill such that their value-add or passion for the craft evaporates in the next 3 months.
Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
21–30 of 85 posts
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#22I like the "maintainer stays in control" part, but isn't that also a problem in a way? The AI provider gets paid, the platform gets paid (20% is a lot in my opinion!), and the maintainer gets more unpaid work: another PR to plan, review, revise, merge, and then maintain... that's a lot of work. If people are willing to fund an issue, why should that money mainly cover LLM tokens rather than maintainer effort? Or at l…
I don't think you understand if we were to just give people money then how are these platforms gonna take a cut of the action?
sounds like you do not support other people that have nothing to do with the code that you like
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#23I like the "maintainer stays in control" part, but isn't that also a problem in a way? The AI provider gets paid, the platform gets paid (20% is a lot in my opinion!), and the maintainer gets more unpaid work: another PR to plan, review, revise, merge, and then maintain... that's a lot of work. If people are willing to fund an issue, why should that money mainly cover LLM tokens rather than maintainer effort? Or at l…
While I definitely like the Patreon for Software Builders idea, that's got some moving pieces which take additional legal work. My hope is that could come in time as it would be really cool.
Regarding rewarding maintainer effort, I'm shooting for the value prop of "free AI", this only works if reconciliation is per-phase and liquidity is accessible across as many repos as possible. So if I had each reconcile drain the pool, there would be a lot of stalled work and human intervention required.
That said, there are probably some maintainers that don't want "free AI" and that's okay.
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#24I think I've read from a few different sources that the Claude Code $100-$200/mo plans are subsidized so hard that it's basically $2k-$8k/mo in "would-be" equivalent API token usages. This kind of makes sense in that space while the subsidies (if true) last? Unrelated, "tokens" feels very like... back-then blockchain to me. All the craze.
Or the API is massively overpriced. What Anthropic/OpenAI are charging for tokens says almost nothing about their actual costs, just what people are willing to pay.
It’s just an obvious example of market segmentation by charging enterprise customers many times more than personal users while selling the same product
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#25interesting idea
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#26Can’t help thinking that if HN had a Black Mirror version (if this isn’t it), this would be one of the ideas in it.
If you like a project enough to donate to them, give them the money directly and let them decide how to spend it. This is just convoluted, weird and vaguely dystopian.
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#27Better yet: give them cold hard cash instead of what is arguably monopoly money for many OSS devs. Ironically this is something GitHub made "easy" with sponsorships several years ago.
How do you ensure that funds ear-marked for a donor-specified issue goes toward that issue and not something else?
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#28Better yet: give them cold hard cash instead of what is arguably monopoly money for many OSS devs. Ironically this is something GitHub made "easy" with sponsorships several years ago.
How do you ensure that funds ear-marked for a donor-specified issue goes toward that issue and not something else?
You don't sponsor people or projects to complete specific issues or build specific features in the first place. Sponsorship is a reward and token of appreciation for doing good work.
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#29Better yet: give them cold hard cash instead of what is arguably monopoly money for many OSS devs. Ironically this is something GitHub made "easy" with sponsorships several years ago.
How do you ensure that funds ear-marked for a donor-specified issue goes toward that issue and not something else?
You actually hire a developer to work on that issue and not something else.
Re: Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
#30Just curious, why is there a login gate before seeing the list of projects that participate in the platform? Usually similar donation(?) websites list those publicly for better visibility and less friction.
Probably an oversight on my part. I was thinking that backers would find out about CleverCrow through the project maintainers so the public pages are repo specific.
As an aside, when you do login, CleverCrow shows projects that you've starred on GitHub to help find things you might want to support.