Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338
Jason Calacanis offered a $5,000 bounty for someone to build his Chrome extension idea, annotated.com, and reviews three working submissions built in weeks using AI coding tools.
The gist
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AI coding tools have collapsed development costs: a build that cost $500K twenty years ago now gets done for a $5K bounty in one to two weeks.
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The winning submission stood out because of intuitive UX and a clean yellow highlighter metaphor, not because it introduced new ideas.
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Annotation platforms could scale through expert fact-checking bounties, free social network models, or licensing curated annotations as AI training data.
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If you are in financial hardship, Jason says get stable housing and a cushion of $5,000 to $10,000 saved before pitching investors.
Also mentioned
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annotated.com
· "I own the domain name annotated.com. My idea is you could highlight any piece of text and then you could..."
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DoorDash
· "Drive an Uber, drive a DoorDash, whatever it is. Let's get you stable, safe, and fed."
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Uber
· "Drive an Uber, drive a DoorDash, whatever it is. Let's get you stable, safe, and fed."
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Y Combinator
· "I don't want to get into that because I think that's condescending and not realistic — somebody being like,..."
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