GoKawiilThat bug in your dependency that's blocked you for six months? Human bounties price it in the hundreds and stall waiting for a stranger to bite. Here you fund the compute, a few dollars, and the maintainer who knows the codebase drives the fix home.
$5, not $500 Back the issues you depend on. Pledge a few dollars against any open issue, or back a whole repo to cover every issue, including the ones opened next. Pledges pool with other backers' until there's enough for the maintainer to press Start; your wallet stays untouched until they do. You're buying compute and maintainer attention, not a stranger's weekend.
Unspent → refunded Pay for what runs, keep the rest. The run debits the provider's token cost plus a 20% platform fee as it works, every charge itemised on your wallet ledger, and whatever the run doesn't spend comes straight back to your wallet when the PR merges or closes.