Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?

[vira28]

Not a hiring post. I have a 9-5 but also a lot of ideas I want to build. The core is just to show up and make small progress — but I find I'm missing accountability and partnership, so I thought it'd be nice to partner with someone. Mostly backend/infra stuff. If you're interested, email in my profile.

[HerbManic]

The best thing you can do is try to start this by your self. Yes it is hard but once you have even a vague demonstration of an idea that can be the launch pad to getting others in the fold.

Linux started Linux by himself, then others came along if they are inspired.

I know it is hard to do at first but that hard first step is what is usually needed.

[vira28]

Agree. Appreciate the reminder.

[theturtletalks]

I’m building an open-source Shopify for every vertical. I’ve built one for e-commerce and restaurants (gym and grocery is in the works). If you want, you can help me build one of them?

https://github.com/openshiporg/openship

[sama004]

did you try medusa? what were the shortcomings that made you build this

[theturtletalks]

Medusa is what our schema is based on but we have diverted a bit since then. The main difference is that Openfront is a Next.js application with the graphQL API, storefront, and dashboard built-in. Because of this, it’s one click deploy on Railway and Vercel whereas Medusa uses express and requires running multiple applications.

Because it’s all bundled in 1 Next app, it’s very easy for businesses to pick up and adapt to their business. In fact, this is how we are building the different openfronts. Like when we added payment providers like Stripe and PayPal to e-commerce, we told AI to look at how we did that and add it to restaurants, etc. Down the line, we want to allow users to create custom Openfronts by remixing existing ones. Like if you’re a restaurant and want to sell merch, you can bring in those features from e-commerce to the restaurant software.

[handoflixue]

What sort of development? What time zone? Friend or foe of GenAI? Looking for a partner, or an assistant? (i.e. do you want help implementing your ideas, or are you looking for inspiration and feedback too?)

[culopatin]

Would help to know what fields you’re interested in or what problems you want to solve. No one is going to have much consistency or accountability working on things they don’t care about

[malux85]

Accountability has to come internally, which will come through discipline. An external accountability force will only be short lived because once the novelty wears off, then you'll start making excuses and it will fail at that point.

I would suggest you do some internal reflection and very honest introspection to find the root cause of your dissatisfaction - are you not doing your projects because some other vice is getting in the way? Or maybe the answer is you just need rest and theres only so many hours in the day.