Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#1

Post by shoconinja » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 8:49 AM UTC

Is there some type of forum, discord, or slack where people post there ideas/needs for OSS projects, but don’t have the time or resources to build?

My dream in my spare time is just to work on OSS and sometimes I struggle to find projects that I want to contribute to and would rather start. I can’t seem to find any places outside of “bounty” type websites

Re: Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#2

Post by mindcrime » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 8:54 AM UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

https://www.reddit.com/r/somebodybuildthis/

https://www.reddit.com/r/somebodycodethis/

https://www.reddit.com/r/stealmyidea/

https://www.halfbakery.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130305172753/http://web.archiv...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#3

Post by pabs3 » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 9:18 AM UTC

This wiki page documents various ideas the Debian community has had over the years:

https://wiki.debian.org/Ideas

Re: Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#4

Post by kstenerud » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

I could use some help if you're interested in implementing an ad-hoc data format codec in different languages.

https://concise-encoding.org is nearing release, but building the reference implementation (https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding) has taken so much of my spare time that I couldn't even think about other languages (especially since I'll need to focus on the schema format next, and the proto-RPC protocol after that).

Re: Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#5

Post by bsldld » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 4:04 PM UTC

Would you like to join me in building this: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org ?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a place to build peoples’ open source ideas?

#6

Post by realquadrant » Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 6:36 AM UTC

Go to Open Collective which lists open source projects that companies care about that they contribute money to support the project (things like CI/CD or schwag). Then you know it’s a project with companies interested in it.