CLI Bounty Radar

Help indie devs find paid open-source CLI bug bounties by reward size

Problem

Someone spotted an online hackathon that pays at least $50 per merged PR for fixing bugs in an open-source CLI, but this kind of opportunity is scattered across event pages, issue trackers, and temporary announcements. Independents who want to earn a little extra have to manually hunt across many repos and event sites.

Solution

An aggregator that continuously crawls bounty announcements, hackathon rules pages, and bounty-labeled issues across major open-source projects, then structures them by language, repo, reward amount, and deadline. A lightweight CLI or web board lets devs filter for bugs they can actually fix and jump straight to the PR page.

Users

Indie developers and hobbyist hackers with spare time and familiarity with mainstream languages who want small side income

MVP

Crawl GitHub issues tagged with bounty and public hackathon pages; sort by amount, language, and repo stars; email/RSS subscriptions by skill stack; flag expired or already-claimed tasks; no auto-PR submission.

Revenue

Free basic aggregation; $5–10/mo for high-value or real-time alerts; small affiliate fee on bounty payouts

Why now

Open-source bounties and online hackathons are multiplying, yet discovery is fragmented; indie devs want side income more than ever in the AI tooling era