THE IDEA SHELF / OPEN STARTING POINTS

Something worth making.

Fifty small project directions to help you get unstuck. Pick one, reshape it, or use it as a starting point for something better.

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Community Repair Log

Document repairable items, replacement parts, and fixes that worked.

THE PROBLEM

Useful repair knowledge disappears when the person who fixed something moves on.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Create an item page with symptoms, tools, parts, and a step-by-step repair log.

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Planting Window Planner

Create a planting calendar based on a user's selected growing zone and crop list.

THE PROBLEM

Garden schedules are scattered across seed packets, bookmarks, and generic calendars.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Build a calendar that accepts manual planting windows and recurring reminders.

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Sustainable Hosting Checklist

A practical checklist for right-sizing services and reducing waste in small apps.

THE PROBLEM

Teams rarely revisit resource use after the first deployment works.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Create a baseline checklist for idle services, storage, caching, and retention.

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