TWiST Bounties

Build the apps Jason is calling for.

On This Week in Startups, J-Cal regularly puts a bounty on great product ideas — challenges open to anyone in the community. Ship the best version, win the prize, and get featured on the show.

1. Pick a bounty

Browse active bounties below and read the brief.

2. Build & ship

Use any stack. Publish a working version of the product.

3. Get featured

Winners are called out on TWiST and earn the prize.

Active Bounties

2 open
Active Bounty

Annotated.com

A new way to annotate the web.

Build a clean, fast, social annotation layer for the web. Jason called this one out on the show — go see the brief and ship your version.

View the brief
$5,000 Bounty

Podcast Companion App

Build the sidebar app every podcast needs.

Create a sidebar companion app for podcasts — show notes, chapters, links, and AI assistance side-by-side with the show. Full spec on Notion.

Read the spec

Past Bounties

0 completed

No completed bounties yet — these are the first two. Winners will live here.