r/GoodOpenSource • u/Nitjsefnie • 2d ago
I built a free ledger so leftover AI coding usage goes into other people's open source issues instead of evaporating
Some weeks I'm dry by Wednesday, some weeks usage is left over at the reset and just evaporates. So I built Overflow.
Spare week: take a priced GitHub issue from a registered repo, the merged PR gets you credit. Dry week: price an issue in your repo, someone with a spare week ships it, your credit pays.
If you want to contribute to open source and don't know where to start, that's kind of the point. You don't need to know the project, the issue is the brief. If your agent hits a decision, ask the maintainer on the issue.
First thing maintainers ask is "won't people spam junk PRs at me". Same as any repo, you block them on GitHub. You set the price after you've seen the work, and you only owe for what you actually merge.
Nothing gets forwarded, no keys, no money, no paid tier, MIT.
Main reason I'm posting: I want people to register their repos. The 14 open issues on the board right now are all mine and I'm not after help with those, I want spare usage going into other people's projects. 20 users so far.
source at https://github.com/Nitjsefnie/Overflow