FindCollabs: Share Your Open Source Projects and Find Collaborators

Jeff Meyerson — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:23:39 +0000

Every creative person has a project--or at least a project idea.

FindCollabs is a place to share your projects, whether those projects are new or old. Your project doesn’t even have to have code associated with it yet--it can just be an idea, like a weather prediction system.

Your project can be anything creative--a game, or an animation, or a song.

One project I’m working on is a FindCollabs Theme Song. Two collaborators have worked on the project, Adam and AJ. I already gave Adam a review (he did a great job). AJ’s review is pending.

The workflow for submitting a project is easy. As an example, I’ll go through a project that I want to share with the FindCollabs community.

This is Escrow, a social betting game I invented. It’s not the prettiest game in the world, but it has some cool ideas. Maybe other people will want to contribute to it. Let’s add it to FindCollabs!

I added the link to my GitHub repository and a live version of the app so people can test it out. Now I’ll create some roles, so people know how they could contribute to the game.

That’s it! Now my project is created on FindCollabs. People who come to FindCollabs will see it in the feed.

When you click into a project, you are taken to an interface that allows you to chat and interact with the project. I’m already getting some feedback from Vynce.

FindCollabs is a place for you to share your projects and find collaborators. The projects can be anything creative. When people collaborate online, cool stuff gets built.

One project on FindCollabs is SoftwareDaily.com, a site that is built to be a better, more flexible skin for SoftwareEngineeringDaily.com. We have a popular podcast, but the content is difficult to index, search, and discover. We have outgrown WordPress and podcast players.

The community has been building the Software Daily platform for a few years, and FindCollabs gives us a platform to work within.

On FindCollabs, you can post new projects and old projects. You can post a rough idea or a detailed product spec.

When you share your projects, other people can get a sense for who you are and how you like to work. Here’s my profile.

FindCollabs is having an online hackathon with $5000 in prizes. If you have some cool projects you are working on, put them on FindCollabs and be entered to win.

The judges are investors, artists, and engineers. They understand the creative process. Entrees to the hackathon will be judged based on vision, execution, creativity, and teamwork.

If you don’t have any projects to post, join an existing project.

We look forward to seeing you on FindCollabs!

FindCollabs: Find Collaborators. Build Projects.

Jeff Meyerson — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:38:33 +0000

Collaboration on the Internet creates innovation. New inventions, new art, and new products--built by people working together on the Internet.

FindCollabs is a product we have been working on to enable people to find and collaborate with each other. If you want to try it out, you can go to FindCollabs.com.

FindCollabs is for finding people to create your projects with, and getting those projects built. Whether you are a programmer, a writer, a musician, a game designer, an actor, a videographer, or a project manager--you can find people to collaborate with.

Everyone has ideas for new projects. Whether your project is a business, an open source tool, a cryptocurrency, or a video, you can use FindCollabs to define your projects.

Click "New Project", and FindCollabs walks you through the project creation.

You can always change the project title and description later on.

Once you have made your project, you can define roles for that project. Say you need a script writer and three videographers. Just define each role and a short description for those roles.

Click "Done", and now you are in the project page. You can use the chat interface to post more details about your project.

FindCollabs lets you find and invite people to your projects, so that you can put together a team to build your project.

FindCollabs also has a reputation system.

When you work on a project, your collaborators rate you. As you make contributions to projects, you show the FindCollabs community that you are reliable and productive--and other people will want to work with you because of that.

The only way to build huge, ambitious projects as a team is for people to trust each other. If you are unreliable, people will not want to work with you.

When you join a project on FindCollabs, you are committing to doing work that will add value to that project.

If you like to build projects and be creative, you might like FindCollabs. To get started, you can go to FindCollabs.com, log in, and post a project. Or join someone else's project.

If you are ever confused about anything, you can always send me an email.

FindCollabs Hackathons

We are sponsoring a series of hackathons on FindCollabs.

These hackathons are for anyone with a creative project--whether you want to make a music video, a virtual reality game, an acoustic guitar song, a cryptocurrency whitepaper, a mobile app, a commercial--anything creative.

Our first hackathon starts today, March 3rd 2019, and ends at 11:59 PM PST on Saturday March 16th. On March 17 2019 we will announce the winners of the first hackathon, and send them emails. We will also announce the details of the second hackathon.

Prizes

In the first hackathon, the prizes are not very big. But they will get bigger over time. If you like the idea of FindCollabs, it might benefit you to get involved now, so that you can build your reputation and find better people to work with in the future.

1st place: $500 divided evenly among the winning team; SE Daily hoodies for each member of the team

2nd place: SE Daily hoodies for each member of the team

Most valuable feedback on the product: SE Daily Towel

Most helpful community member award: SE Daily Old School Bucket Hat

Judging

The FindCollabs hackathons will be judged by a panel of investors, entrepreneurs, podcasters, artists, and technologists. We will announce the judges of the first hackathon in the next few days.

These judges will be voting based on which projects they like the most.

Terms

Every project on the FindCollabs site before 11:59 PM PST on Saturday March 16th will be entered to win the contest.

To find our detailed terms and conditions, go to findcollabs.com/terms.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this post. If you get a chance, check out FindCollabs and feel free to send me feedback. I'd love to know what you think, and any suggestions you have.

Forem: Jeff Meyerson

FindCollabs: Share Your Open Source Projects and Find Collaborators

FindCollabs: Find Collaborators. Build Projects.

FindCollabs Hackathons

Judging

Terms