Support
Questions, ideas, and bugs.
Questions about peels, bunches, checkout, or the catalog. Ideas and bug reports go to the same inbox.
Contact
Product support: support@boredbanana.io
Legal, deeds, and IP takedowns: info@boredbanana.io Β· Takedown form
We reply from support@boredbanana.io. IP takedown reports still go through the Takedown form, not this inbox.
FAQ
What is BoredBanana?
A marketplace for unfinished GitHub projects. You buy a scanned vault copy of leftover code, or you grow a bunch for funding and help without selling the original repo.
What is a peel vs a bunch?
A peel is a buyout: the founder freezes a private vault copy and a buyer peels it off. A bunch is co-financing and help: the founder keeps the original repo, backers pledge or offer a role, and contributors can claim tasks.
What do I actually buy?
An isolated vault copy plus rights to that copy β not customers, revenue, a company, or automatic handover of domains, databases, or Stripe. Those extras are checkboxes on the card, not magic.
Why do I need GitHub?
Vault invites go to a GitHub user. Dropping a peel, growing a bunch, and peeling a copy all need GitHub. A company email login can browse, back, and help, but it cannot receive the vault invite.
How much is the fee?
Listing is free. The platform fee is 10% of a peel sale. That covers the scan, vault copy, and holding funds. Bunch pledges are preview until Stripe.
Can I return a peel?
Digital goods are not returned once cloned. You get three days to claim the copy is not as listed or does not run from the README. Claims are reviewed by hand. Before checkout you accept the Buyer Pre-Access NDA.
What is the Buyer NDA?
You sign it at checkout, not on catalog cards. If the deal is refunded you cannot keep, copy, or build on that code for 24 months. The full text is on the Buyer NDA legal page.
What if the repo has secrets?
A peel with keys in git history does not go live. The vault scan has to pass before a listing is for sale.
What are Side Peels and Solutions?
Side Peels lists open bunch work and helper cards. It is not a job board and not a wage. Solutions is accepted bunch work you can search by stack, role, and topic.
Is Stripe live?
Not yet. Checkout is preview: no card is charged, a deal still starts, and the three-day window runs on the server.
Someone listed my code. What now?
Use the Takedown form. Staff review the report before a listing is paused or delisted. Support is for product questions, ideas, and bugs β not IP claims.
How fast do you reply?
Write support@boredbanana.io or use the form on this page. We read the inbox on business days. Add a URL if something is broken.
Suggest
Tell us what to add, what to improve, or what broke. The note is filed here and sent to support.