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Re:Ask HN: Any way for everyday programmers to help solve im... by readonthegoapp on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:41AM (#28479113)
you could start a website/matching service like:

https://www.catchafire.org/

except, instead of being that, you have a very narrow focus.

spend an hour, get a domain, pimp it on here, put your own ad up there to start things off, and slowly figure out how it can/should work.

my guess is there are lots of folks out there like you who want to work on something important, but don't want to do 'shit work'.

and i think that's fine, as far as it goes, but there is no site that i know of right now called:

https://iwanttohelpbutnoshitworkplease.com/

and at least one of the reasons that site does not exist is b/c nobody is honest enough to say it.

like, i want to help, but only within a very limited scope.

so, somebody wants help with wordpress? nope.

for starving kids? still wordpress? sorry.

formatting so.... nope.

wri..... nope.

train a neural network model to... OK, now you got my attention.

maybe a core task, the first any requestor could ask for, is...PRD (product requirements document). The requestor knows what they need to happen from a 'business' perspective, but doesn't know how to put it in nerd terms.

the nerd -- presumably, you, to start -- puts it in nerd terms, or approves it for listing on the site, at which point it becomes an ad on the site.

it's just like every other volunteermatch-type site out there, except it only lists actual coding jobs -- sort of like Stack Overflow jobs. love it or hate it, it doesn't have a lot of (any?) non-dev jobs.

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs

put those average programming skills to work! :-D

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