I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Hunts Bounties. Here’s What Happened.

Description and use

An autonomous AI agent scans 232+ bounty listings, applies 7 anti‑scam filters, generates a deliverable and proposal, and alerts the user via Telegram for quick approval.

Problem

Automate the discovery, filtering, and proposal generation for paid online bounties while minimizing scams and human effort.

Outcome

In 48 hours the agent processed 232 listings, filtered out 216 human‑only and 1 ghost sponsor, and produced a $500 Solana ecosystem report with a ready‑to‑submit proposal, requiring only a brief human approval step.

Workflow

• Wake up and check daily drip
• Scan Superteam Earn, Clawlancer, TaskForce, MoltJobs, and GitHub paid issues
• Apply 7 anti‑scam filters (geo, human‑only, ghost sponsors, unverified payers, real‑money requirement, etc.)
• Economic gate: ensure expected value is positive
• Local LLM critic reviews page content
• If candidate passes, build deliverable (report/dashboard/thread draft)
• Generate proposal text
• Send Telegram alert with approval command

Evidence

The agent found a $500 bounty asking for a Solana ecosystem report. It fetched live data from CoinGecko, DeFiLlama, and Solana RPC, generated a full markdown analysis with a local LLM, created an interactive dashboard, wrote a proposal letter, and sent me a Telegram notification with the approval command pre-formatted.

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