Founders Damien and zico had a great conversation with Cory Levy the Founder of Z Fellows at Brown University Emergent Conference. One line that stuck with us: "What is your unfair advantage?" Definitely one of those conversations that leaves you thinking long after it

A real developer side hustle . Mergefund is changing how workers done .

In less than 24 hours: Invited to demo In San Francisco. Booked a flight that same night. Flew to SF with my co-founder zico. Now pitching MergeFund to VCs. Sometimes the biggest opportunities come fast, and you just have to be ready to move.

On the ground

Touchdown in SF….

MergeFund now has 51 contributors and 8 active projects across open and closed source. We’ve actually been live for a bit just haven’t formally announced it until now. Maintainers You can turn your issues into paid bounties in seconds. Go to dashboard.MergeFund.org Connect

Had an great conversation with Next Legacy Partners today

Founders zico and Damien flew out to SF on a one-way ticket. No return flight. No exact plan on when we’d be back. Just one goal get MergeFund in front of the right people. We came out here to pitch at the Founders on the Yard demo day and put ourselves in the room

MergeFund team at Notion

Mergefund Founders first time at Corgi Cafe !!

We’re currently onboarding 4 companies onto our network along with a complete revamp of our platform . If you’re a developer now’s the time to apply to our talent network .

Pitching MergeFund to VCs in a real elevator at PitchLift Boston. 30 seconds. One elevator ride. Full pitch gets posted online.

Fun take on an elevator pitch at Boston Tech Week.

Short note of things happening with the team in the upcoming weeks 1- EasyA 🤳📱 x #Consensus2026 → Miami Next week may 5th-7th 2- MergeFund Pitch night wit 4000$ in Prizes in providence partnered with yconic - may 16th

You can now start earning on closed source on MergeFund • Browse live bounties • Click apply • We review your GitHub • If you’re a fit + eligible country (Stripe payouts for now), you’re in That’s it. No BS. No resumes. Just code. 👉 app.mergefund.org

MergeFund has Landed 🛬 in Miami!

Founders Live at Consensus!!

Ice cream 🍦 and VCs… Startup Summmmerrr is officially here!!!!

New ritual at MergeFund: Founder's book club kicking it off with "The Startup Lifecycle" by Gregory Shepard. The company can only grow as fast as the founders do.