Who Wants to Collaborate? (March 2022)

Question

This thread is similar to the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads. But this one is for people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money. But for people who want to work together on cool projects.For free to make the world better or to start a startup.If you do, please post your project or your skills!

gushogg-blake · Accepted Answer

I'm developing an idea for a way to create better docs and explanatory tutorials for software projects. Still in early stages, but the general idea would be to let people post tutorials/explanations (quality would be maintained by some kind of upvote system) and link to other projects to build up a connected graph.
Key things that distinguish it from currently available docs would be:
- a focus on the motivations, design decisions, and trade-offs vs only describing the positive "selling points" of a project
- a focus on how different systems connect to each other and the outside world vs describing things as isolated entities (just knowing how something is called or what network listeners or event handlers it uses is a great way to get a foothold into understanding it)
- driven by specific examples vs generalisations & metaphors. The trade-off here is that specific examples inherently don't give the full conceptual picture or demonstrate the full flexibility of a project - but I think this is more than outweighed by people's ability to generalise from examples, and it's way easier to quickly understand a few specific examples than to grasp a concept/metaphor that's general enough to cover all use cases.
More details here: https://gist.github.com/gushogg-blake/b1eb767821f10a58daac0d...
We would be aiming to apply for YC Winter 2023. Email is in my bio, let me know if you are interested!
Gus