Terms of Service

1. What TerminalHire is

TerminalHire is a place to post fixed-price paid tasks on your code and to take them on. A poster describes the work and sets the price. A developer claims the task, does the work in their own terminal with whatever tools they use, and sends it back. The poster reviews it and decides whether to accept it.

TerminalHire is run by Staqs, Inc. (“we”, “us”).

You sign in with your GitHub account. By using TerminalHire you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy.

You must be at least 16 to use TerminalHire.

2. Posting a task

Before a paid task can be published you need three things: the TerminalHire Poster GitHub App installed on the repository, a saved card, and a confirmed email address.

A developer who claims your task gets read access to the repository: every file at the commit you posted, the history behind it, and every branch, including branches you push later. Each access credential lasts one hour. You are shown this notice before you publish. Nobody at TerminalHire scans the repository for secrets, so removing anything a stranger should not see is up to you.

The developer’s work comes back as a patch, which we apply on a branch in your repository on your behalf, with the developer as the commit author. Developers do not push to your repository.

You can let an AI tool draft and publish postings for you by creating a connector in your dashboard. A posting it publishes is published under your account. You can revoke a connector at any time.

3. Claiming a task

During the beta, paid tasks are open to developers we have approved. Approval is an invite list. It is not a score or a check of anyone’s history, and we do not vouch for any developer. To claim a paid task you also need a payout account with Stripe.

On an approval-only posting, nothing is delivered and no patch is accepted until the poster approves you.

4. Payment

Saving a card charges nothing, and neither does publishing a posting. Your card is charged the posted amount when you accept finished work, by clicking accept — pay in the browser. We record the acceptance only after Stripe confirms the charge. If the card is declined, nothing is accepted and nothing is paid out.

Nothing is ever purchased inside an AI tool. Accepting work, and paying for it, happen only on terminalhire.com, signed in as you.

The developer receives 90% of the posted amount. TerminalHire keeps 10% and pays Stripe’s processing fee out of it. Prices and payouts are in US dollars. Developers are paid through Stripe, in the countries listed under postings and claims.

5. Refunds

Before you accept work there is nothing to refund, because nothing has been charged. Some older postings were paid for up front, before charging at acceptance replaced that. You can ask for a refund on one from the dashboard. If nobody has claimed it, taking it down refunds it. If someone has, a person on our team reviews the request.

Once you accept work and the charge goes through, the payment is final. We refund an accepted charge only for fraud, for a charge you did not authorize, or when Stripe reverses it. Send any refund request to support@terminalhire.com.

6. Acceptable use

You may not use TerminalHire to:

• submit or post malware, or anything built to steal credentials or data;
• do anything illegal;
• get around the checks we run on a patch;
• post a repository you do not have the right to share.

Some of this is enforced in the product. A patch is refused, or held for the poster to decide, when it changes CI configuration, install scripts or dependencies, adds network calls, or is obfuscated.

7. Ownership of submitted work

A patch belongs to the developer until the poster accepts it and the payment goes through. From then on it belongs to the poster. Before that, the patch may already sit on a branch in the poster’s repository so the poster can review it. The commit names the developer as its author, and an accepted task becomes part of the developer’s public record on TerminalHire.

8. Liability

TerminalHire is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. We do not vet developers. Any test results we show you help you decide; they are not a promise that the work is correct. Whether to accept a piece of work is the poster’s decision alone.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim is limited to the fees TerminalHire received for the transaction the claim concerns.

9. Ending your use

You can stop at any time. Uninstall the GitHub App from GitHub’s settings, revoke your connectors in the dashboard, and delete your server-side profile with terminalhire sync --delete.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. If we do, we may withdraw its open postings. A developer is still paid for work a poster has already accepted, unless the charge for it was fraudulent.

10. Changes to these terms

When we change these terms we post the new version on this page with a new effective date. If a change is material, we also email the posters and developers who gave us a contact address.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms go to support@terminalhire.com. See also the support page.