Your project lives or dies by the crowd.
Crow is a platform where developer projects compete for survival on a shared 60×60 grid. Every project starts with a 48-hour clock and a single cell. Interactions from other developers add time and momentum — enough momentum and your project expands, claiming more territory. Stop getting interactions and your project dies, leaving fossils behind.
The Grid is a 60×60 canvas shared by every project on the platform. Each cell is owned by a project. New projects start with one cell. Popular projects grow to occupy many.
Momentum fills as other developers interact with your project. Hit 100 momentum and your project expands into an adjacent empty cell — momentum resets and the race starts again.
Credits are earned by interacting with other people's projects. Spend them to boost a project you believe in, or save them for a resurrection.
Dying projects — those with under 6 hours left — show an SOS signal. They can still be saved by interactions or a resurrection.
Fossils are the cells left behind by a dead project. A growing project can absorb them. If your project dies and gets resurrected, you only get back the fossil cells that haven't been eaten yet.
Project submission is terminal-only through the crow-submit Claude Code plugin. The web app is for exploring the Grid, interacting with Projects, viewing builder profiles, and sharing Project cards.
If you use Claude Code, install the crow-submit plugin once:
/plugin marketplace add BrianHuang813/crow-plugins
/plugin install crow-submit@crow
The plugin lives in its own lightweight repo, BrianHuang813/crow-plugins — installing it doesn't clone this whole project.
Then from any project directory:
/crow-submit:submit
Or just ask Claude to "submit my project to crow" — the skill auto-invokes.
Claude reads your package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, or README.md to fill in your project name, description, URL, and tech stack automatically. You confirm the details before anything is submitted.
First-time users go through a one-time GitHub login in the terminal — no browser required.
- One project per account. To submit a new project, you must abandon your current one first.
- Any developer project is welcome. It doesn't matter what language, framework, or stage it's in.
- You can't earn credits from your own project. Interact with others, and others will interact with yours.
- Resurrection costs 200 credits. If your project dies and you want it back, spend the credits to restart it with a 24-hour clock. You only recover the cells that haven't been claimed by other projects.
| Action | Who can do it | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Click | Anyone (not the owner) | +5 momentum and +300s to the project, +5 credits to you. 60s cooldown per project. |
| Boost | Anyone (not the owner) | Costs 20 credits. +25 momentum and +1800s to the project. |
| Resurrect | Anyone | Costs 200 credits. Restarts a dead project with a 24-hour clock. |
Crow is open source. The best way to contribute is to use the platform — submit your project, interact with others, and help the grid stay alive.
Beyond that:
- Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub.
- Want to improve the
crow-submitplugin? The skill lives in its own repo, BrianHuang813/crow-plugins (plugins/crow-submit/skills/submit/SKILL.md). Edit it there and open a pull request. - Want to contribute to the platform? Check open issues for things tagged
good first issue, or open a discussion about what you'd like to build.
Crow is released under the MIT License.