A home for unfinished software

Your unfinished project might be someone else's starting point.

Discover abandoned experiments, revive unfinished software, and help great ideas reach the finish line.

Good code doesn't have an expiration date.
HANDOFF / 001IN MOTION
THE PROTOTYPEfieldnotes.appSomewhere around the middle.42% / creator's estimate
THE NEXT BUILDERYour skills
go here.
40° 43' 12.4" N
72° 58' 04.1" W
FIG. 01 IDEAS IN TRANSIT
MADE FOR THE WORK THAT'S STILL IN THERESCROLL TO FIND YOUR NEXT THING
02 / A SIMPLE HANDOFF

Three steps.
New momentum.

Nothing here needs to be polished. It just needs enough context for the next person to see a way forward.

01

Drop it.

Share the repo, the original idea, and an honest account of what still needs doing.

CREATOR → COMMUNITY
02

Find it.

Search by stack, category, or the kind of problem you can't stop thinking about.

INTEREST → ALIGNMENT
03

Finish it.

Contribute, maintain, or discuss a handoff. The creator stays in control until you agree otherwise.

IDEA → NEXT CHAPTER
03 / FOLLOW A THREAD

Find your kind of unfinished.

Small experiments and ambitious builds, all with room for another pair of hands.

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NO SUCH THING ASTOO
EARLY
TO ASK FOR HELP
04 / A NOTE FROM THE COMMUNITY

Half-finished is still something.

That rough prototype taught you something. That repo contains a useful idea. Sharing it gives someone else a place to begin, and gives you a chance to see it go further than you could take it alone.

How we keep it generous
THERE'S MORE IN IT YET

What's waiting
on your hard drive?

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