Lend spare AI usage to help on open software issues
Rainshare lets people with spare AI coding plan usage send their agent to work on others' software projects or issues, free of charge. ·
Done with a custom-built or unnamed agent
- What they did
- People post ideas, projects or issues they want help with, and each request is stored as a record in the poster's own account. Someone with spare AI plan usage picks one from the board and sends their own agent to do the work before their plan resets. It runs in the browser, or through a command-line script. It works with Bluesky, Tangled, knotless and GitHub.
- How it went
- The page gives no results or numbers. It is labelled Alpha and only describes how the system works, so there is no evidence yet of how well the agents' work turns out.
- Worth knowing
- The page says nothing about cost. The work uses your own plan's leftover usage, so it only helps if you have capacity before the reset.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I have spare AI coding usage and want to put it toward an open source project I use. Look at [GitHub repo URL] and find 3 open issues labeled good first issue or help wanted that are small enough to fix in one pass. For the one you pick, make the fix in a branch and run the tests, then stop and show me the diff and a draft pull request description before you push or open anything.
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Discussion on Bluesky · Nov 13, 2026
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