What Problem Does This Solve?
Developers and researchers generate hundreds of technical ideas, but lack a structured, discoverable place to share them. Twitter threads disappear, blog posts go unnoticed, GitHub repos without context are invisible, and private notes never get validated. This creates a massive gap between ideation and implementation.
/dev/ideas solves this by providing a JSON-based registry where ideas evolve through defined lifecycle stages: Hypothesis (untested intuition), Experimentation (active testing), Concept (structured approach), PoC (working prototype), and Validated (reproduced by others). Each idea gets automated validation, a dedicated GitHub Discussion for feedback, and permanent attribution via CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing.
Who Should Use This?
Independent researchers who want to test hypotheses before committing to full academic papers. Solo developers deciding which side project to pursue based on community interest. Open-source maintainers crowdsourcing feature ideas with democratic voting. R&D teams documenting experimental explorations for institutional memory. Anyone who has thought "I wish there was a structured place to share this technical concept."
How Does It Work Technically?
Submit ideas as JSON files via Pull Request. GitHub Actions automatically validate structure against JSON Schema. If valid, a GitHub Discussion thread is created automatically for community feedback. The idea progresses through lifecycle stages as evidence accumulates. A static website (GitHub Pages) provides searchable catalog with filtering by stage, domain, and keywords. All submissions are versioned via Git, providing full provenance and evolution history.
Why Better Than Alternatives?
Versus academic publishing: Weeks of validation instead of months of peer review. No paywalls, anyone can participate. Versus social media: Permanent, searchable, with proper attribution instead of ephemeral threads. Versus private documentation: Public validation and community evolution instead of ideas dying in isolation. Versus unstructured GitHub repos: Standardized format enabling discoverability and comparison across ideas.
Common Developer Questions
How do I submit an idea? Clone the repo, copy template.json to ideas/your-slug.json, fill in the structure, submit PR. Automated checks run immediately. Where can I see all ideas? Visit the live catalog at tryboy869.github.io/dev-ideas with search and filters. What if my idea fails validation? The PR will show exactly which fields need fixing. Can I submit wild, unproven hypotheses? Yes, that's the Hypothesis stage - pure speculation is welcome with proper labeling. How do ideas get validated? Community reproduces the concept independently, evidence is documented in Discussions, maintainers update lifecycle stage.
Example Ideas in Registry
Neural Kernel Scheduler: Replace Linux CFS with LSTM-based scheduling, currently in Validated stage with three independent implementations showing twenty percent latency improvement. Self-Healing WASM: Automatic rollback on runtime panics, in Experimentation stage with two teams testing mechanisms. Distributed SQLite CRDT: Add conflict-free replication to SQLite, in Hypothesis stage seeking experimenters. Bio-Synthesized Logic Gates: Compile logic into CRISPR sequences for DNA computing.
