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Work · October 29, 2011

Getting help with your ideas

I keep meeting so many hackers with great ideas, and they have either a hurdle, or a lack of a path to get to where they need to go. So I have created this form that anyone can fill in, and then share, with the hope that it will be seen by someone who can come along and help them. I want a tool that gives a voice, a loud-speaker, to hackers so that they're efforts get recognized, and get the support they need. Please feel free to fill in this form and then share it. Note: the Responses page doesn't update immediately. Google seems to republish the form every 5 minutes or so, so please wait…

Getting help with your ideas launched on October 29, 2011 with 61 votes, #19 of 292 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Getting Help with Your Ideas is a form-based platform designed for hackers and developers to share their project ideas and identify obstacles they face. Users fill out and share a form describing their work, which is then displayed publicly with the hope that others with relevant skills or resources will offer assistance. The tool aims to amplify voices in the hacker community and connect people with the support they need to move their projects forward.

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I keep meeting so many hackers with great ideas, and they have either a hurdle, or a lack of a path to get to where they need to go. So I have created this form that anyone can fill in, and then share, with the hope that it will be seen by someone who can come along and help them. I want a tool that gives a voice, a…

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