Is there a platform where regular people can suggest FOSS ideas to developers? I have a great idea and want to contribute to the community. Any recommendations?

  • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Software development is a huge amount of work and the idea makes up maybe a 1/10 of a percent of the whole work. Every dev has more than enough ideas, what they are lacking is time to develop all of that.

    Telling a dev about your great idea is usually similar to going to Mercedes and telling them your great idea, which is that they should make a green Ferrari with six wheels and a cardboard roof.

    a) They got enough to do, they don’t require additional ideas

    b) Ideas from non-devs are usually super high level (“make a Ferrari”), leave out anything that would make them worthwhile but instead include a lot of unfeasible details

    Don’t take this offensive, it is not meant offensive.

    But I have had so many people (mainly those with a business degree) tell me about the great ideas they had on the toilet. Most often with a “if you implement it, you can have 30% of the profit”. And of all of these ideas that non-IT people told me, I have yet to hear one that would be worthwhile implementing.