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Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

206 points aaronbrethorst | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | source

Let's match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as "Who's Hiring" but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.

Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.

Ground rules:

Post only if you maintain/run the project

One post per project/suite

No commercial recruitment

No thread complaints

Developers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.

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memset ◴[16 Nov 24 18:55 UTC] No.42158325[source]▶
Plain Old Recipe: takes online recipes and removes the cruft.

https://www.plainoldrecipe.com https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe

Things I want to do:

1. Improved print-friendly format 2. Ability to format to arbitrary sizes (for example, format for index cards) 3. Smarter layouts. For example, if a recipe says "add the chicken stock" in a step it would be great if it could identify how much ("1 cup") like some apps do.

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1. johnwatson11218 ◴[30 Nov 24 13:52 UTC] No.42281634[source]▶
I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the links clickable, have a top 10 ready to go ( cached) at bottom of landing page. Write a bot to periodically check the list of sites this works on and indicate how recent said check was done. Then I might spend more time. Good luck!
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2. remram ◴[03 Dec 24 02:52 UTC] No.42302678[source]▶
It's also a little weird that they lie and claim "Usually we're able to parse recipes from {{domain}}" no matter what domain you put in. This really rubbed me the wrong way.

https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe/blob/39868809c1...