Quira was an AI-powered platform for open source bounties. We embarked on a mission to change the way developers learn, create, and make money from their open source contributions.

Quira began with three main goals:

1. Help developers build reputation in open source and use their contributions to demonstrate their skills — a new kind of data-driven CV.
2. Help companies find the best open source talent and reduce recruitment frictions.
3. Make open source more sustainable by gamifying contributions.

We explored a lot of bold ideas:

• DevRank: a reputation system for developers inspired by PageRank, applied to the GitHub open source graph.
• Contributor Matching: Recommending developers to GitHub repositories and issues based on their previous contributions.
• A taxonomy of open source: A data-driven taxonomy of GitHub repositories.
• GitNFT: The first NFT for GitHub commits, allowing developers to turn their GitHub commits into collectible items.
• Solver Quests: A bounty platform to help maintainers create bouties on their GitHub issues.
• Creator Quests: A bounty platform to reward developers for creating projects with specific developer tools.

These experiments pushed us (and the space) forward in creative ways.

Quira is closing because AIs can code now many of our core assumptions are no longer relevant and we weren’t able to find a path that felt both true to our product and sustainable for our commercial trajectory. We still believe there could be a version of Quira that thrives in an AI-native, agentic era, but we leave that as an exercise to the reader.

Thanks to our users, contributors, customers, team, and investors. This journey was meaningful because of the people we had the privilege to work with/for.

On September 1, 2025 all user data was permanently deleted. Any remaining bounty payments were sent to users via Tremendous to the email address on file. If you had a positive outstanding balance, please look out for an email from tremendous.com.