The retail trader building a private trading desk
Self-directed traders paying for custom execution tooling for personal use, with speculative budgets and no institutional oversight.
What they want: Scripts that actually run, reliable Kalshi API authentication, and short-side logic that mirrors their long-side rules.
Still unsolved for them
- Ensure converted script is executable and functional
- Kalshi API authentication and connection handling
- Short side logic does not replicate long side processes
The enterprise team breaking migrations into bounties
Large fintech engineering orgs splitting front-end migrations into scoped public tickets and paying a distributed crowd for each fix.
What they want: Fast fixes for a front end fragmented by React Native migration, failed tag imports, and crashes on heavy HEIC image uploads.
Still unsolved for them
- Uploading downloaded tags file shows import failed error
- Front-end fragmented across platforms during React Native migration
- iOS app crashes creating expense with 30 HEIC images
The pre-launch founder racing to an MVP before the raise
Solo or first-time founders with domain conviction and no engineering bench, building a fixed-window MVP ahead of the next round.
What they want: A technical architecture from zero, sensible backup and recovery targets, and platform logic for multi-tier board cycling.
Still unsolved for them
- No technical architecture or codebase exists yet
- Advise on backup and recovery time objectives
- No platform to manage multi-tier board cycling with sequential placement
The non-technical founder who needs a credible V1
Thinly technical fintech founders with a defined product and no build team, buying senior engineering to ship a first version.
What they want: Finished transcription, analytics, CRM enrichment and billing edge cases, plus growth that no longer depends on a sales team.
Still unsolved for them
- Finish call-transcription, analytics, CRM enrichment, billing edge cases
- Growth previously depended on sales team, not marketing
- No engineering team exists yet
The payments founder who cannot afford a compliance miss
Venture-backed founders in compliance-heavy niches shipping regulated payments infrastructure under real time pressure.
What they want: PCI-grade data handling, liquidity pools wired to multiple fiat ramps, and hands-on Fiserv and CardConnect integration.
Still unsolved for them
- Ensure PCI and sensitive-data handling compliance
- Integrate liquidity pool with multiple fiat ramp partners
- Lack of hands-on Fiserv/CardConnect integration experience
The emerging-market founder testing before spending
Early-stage founders with prototypes and tight budgets paying hourly for design and build to de-risk a concept before scaling.
What they want: Research with raw notes and themes, a full audit of their Lovable and Supabase setup, and tightly focused page-level work.
Still unsolved for them
- Deliver raw notes, recordings, and thematic summary report
- Full codebase and architecture audit of Lovable and Supabase setup
- Focus on Trader page only