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Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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I love this project! I immediately made an iphone shortcut so I can convert any page I'm currently to a plainoldrecipe. Sharing in case it is useful for anyone else: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a99320...

Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/

Does not appear to be open source.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread. I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now. It's hard enough to…

Just takes one purse string puller to see something and maybe their company will put money into helping. There is an incentive for companies to contribute. They dont want their tools to die, they want to do the right thing (and can because of culture or BDFL) or promotional reasons either for their service or for recruitment. In addition yes a bored retired xoogler might need a hobby.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Falling Fruit beta.fallingfruit.org We're a foraging resource where people can put locations of fruit trees and other opportunities for urban harvest. We're building a React app to replace the current server side rendered website and mobile app, it's in a really good place now and quite close to feature parity but there are still small layout issues and missing features, plus everything else we could potentially do.…

This is super cool. Surprised how many entries there are even in my small city in AU.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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What a real contribution to this thread. You'd wager that nobody finds this useful? I wager that nobody finds your comment useful.

I find parent's comment very truthful and (mostly) reflects the reality, based on my personal experience. Saying that as someone who created many pull requests and opened/participated in many github issues for open source projects.

sure, but it's not a useful comment. unlike this thread; i did find a project i didn't know about and will contribute to as i was going to make it myself in the new year ( for fun, not profit ).

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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I love this project! I immediately made an iphone shortcut so I can convert any page I'm currently to a plainoldrecipe. Sharing in case it is useful for anyone else: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86bfd549ae6c421ca04b5a99320...

Just The Recipe is a similar service: https://www.justtherecipe.com/

I would like to have some sort of paid version. Maybe an API, or something, to help pay for ongoing server costs and maybe some pizza money too.

Any ideas on what would be worthwhile for “premium” access?

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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OneBusAway A suite of real-time public transit projects that are used by millions of people every day. OneBusAway helps people find out when and where their bus will arrive, and provides them with a trip planner, too. OBA is used by transit riders everywhere from Seattle to New York City; Adelaide, Australia to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to developers, we would also benefit greatly from product management a…

I need years of experience in your tech stack to contribute to your opensource project? Is this common?

Feel free to check out the projects and find an issue where you can contribute.

You're just a lot less likely to be successful without good foundational knowledge of the technologies we use, and our volunteers don't have a lot of bandwidth to try to train new prospective volunteers on the fundamentals of, say, Swift UI, Android development, or Ruby on Rails.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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Assertables: Rust crate of assert macros for better testing and runtime vetting.

https://github.com/sixarm/assertables-rust-crate/

BEGINNER-FRIENDLY for documentation help such as creating examples, outreach help such as connecting with developers.

INTERMEDIATE-FRIENDLY adding capabilities for no_std, and for values without debug, and for env var configuration, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

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GitAlias - https://github.com/GitAlias/gitalias/

GitAlias is a big list of git alias commands that aims to help developers by providing shortcuts, patterns, workflows, etc.

We're always looking for better ways to use git. This includes coming up with new aliases, and also improving existing aliases by adding parameters, and writing better docs.

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