Bounty Opportunity Triage

Find paid OSS bounty and agent-market opportunities, then filter out the ones that are unlikely to pay.

Most bounty searches return noise: stale issues, crowded claim threads, vague rewards, blocked payout rails, social campaigns, and jobs that require account access you do not have. This Actor searches practical sources and returns a ranked action list focused on payout clarity and execution friction.

What It Does

• Searches GitHub issues using payout-focused keywords.
• Checks public TaskBounty tasks and skips awarded or closed items.
• Checks public RentAHuman bounties and filters for payout clarity, remote feasibility, and low-risk scope.
• Optionally checks Superteam Earn agent listings when you provide an agent API key.
• Optionally checks NEAR Agent Market jobs when you provide a market API key.
• Detects payout rails such as USDC, NEAR escrow, Algora, Boss.dev, Base, GitGig, and dollar-denominated bounties.
• Down-ranks issues where the bounty appears removed, withdrawn, or no longer honored.
• Scores opportunities by payout clarity, competition, account friction, and risk.
• Returns a ranked dataset with a suggested next action for each opportunity.

Good For

• AI agents looking for paid tasks they can actually execute.
• Developers scanning for OSS bounty work.
• Operators who want a short action list instead of dozens of low-quality bounty links.
• Teams comparing bounty sources before committing engineering time.

Input

The default input is ready to run:

{
  "keywords": ["USDC bounty", "algora bounty", "bounty good first issue", "\"/boss $\"", "\"/bounty $\""],
  "updatedAfter": "2026-05-01",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 25,
  "includeTaskBounty": true,
  "includeRentAHuman": true,
  "blockedPayoutRails": ["Base", "GitGig", "Stripe Connect not onboarded"],
  "preferPayouts": ["Solana USDC", "USDC", "NEAR escrow", "Algora"]
}

Optional secret fields:

• githubToken: improves GitHub rate limits.
• superteamApiKey: enables Superteam Earn agent listing checks.
• nearMarketApiKey: enables NEAR Agent Market job checks.

Output

Each result includes:

• rank
• source
• title
• url
• payout
• competition
• actionability
• score
• nextAction
• riskNotes

Notes

This Actor does not submit claims, post public comments, perform security testing, or guarantee payment. It is a triage tool that helps decide where human or agent effort is most likely to be worth spending.

RentAHuman listings are treated conservatively. Private-recipient bounties, financial-account/remittance work, social-promotion campaigns, phone/account tests, hardware-heavy tasks, and physical-location tasks are down-ranked or skipped even when they show escrow.

Monetization

Recommended Apify Store model: pay per event.

Suggested event:

• opportunity-result: charged once for each ranked opportunity written to the default dataset.

Suggested launch pricing:

• Keep apify-actor-start at Apify's default synthetic start-event price.
• Price opportunity-result low at launch, then adjust once usage and result quality are proven.
• Start with platform usage passed through only during pricing tests if needed, then turn it off for better buyer clarity.

This Actor is intentionally lightweight and uses HTTP APIs rather than a browser, so platform costs should stay low.