Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
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Project name: groundctl
Project description: CLI tool that gives AI agents a shared execution layer when building in parallel. Agents claim work units, complete them, and always know what to build next, no duplicated work, no lost context between sessions.
What do you hope to build this month: Codex/Cursor hooks, multi-machine sync, and a path-based locking system so agents can't touch the same files simultaneously.
What kind of skills do you need: TypeScript, Node.js, SQLite, Claude Code / Codex users who want to dogfood it.
Link: https://github.com/patrickjoubert/groundctl MIT licensed. Built using groundctl itself.
Project description: CLI tool that gives AI agents a shared execution layer when building in parallel. Agents claim work units, complete them, and always know what to build next, no duplicated work, no lost context between sessions.
What do you hope to build this month: Codex/Cursor hooks, multi-machine sync, and a path-based locking system so agents can't touch the same files simultaneously.
What kind of skills do you need: TypeScript, Node.js, SQLite, Claude Code / Codex users who want to dogfood it.
Link: https://github.com/patrickjoubert/groundctl MIT licensed. Built using groundctl itself.
Heya, I might able to help in this project, may I know more about it? discord?
Aphorio
Description:
I am writing a small home systems manager. It provides a dashboard for web server, docker, services, hardware details, and more. Its web servers allow for simply proxy configuration and serves http and web sockets on the same port. It is designed for easy of use and speed.
Tech:
Node.js application written in TypeScript. No frameworks and minimal dependencies. Currently supports Windows and Linux.
Current Work:
I was trying to convert internal data structures to an internal table based database. I am going to walk back from this because it turns out to be a performance penalty and highly restrictive.
Things Needed:
* I need feature ideas. I would like to add better tooling and performance analysis but I am not sure what additional use cases would be most beneficial
* Help writing test cases and finding defects
* Help needed with better documentation
* I don’t have Apple hardware but would love to add support for MacOS
* improvements to logging, error messaging
https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/blob/main/lib/services...
Screenshots: https://prettydiff.github.io/aphorio/screenshots/index.html
Description:
I am writing a small home systems manager. It provides a dashboard for web server, docker, services, hardware details, and more. Its web servers allow for simply proxy configuration and serves http and web sockets on the same port. It is designed for easy of use and speed.
Tech:
Node.js application written in TypeScript. No frameworks and minimal dependencies. Currently supports Windows and Linux.
Current Work:
I was trying to convert internal data structures to an internal table based database. I am going to walk back from this because it turns out to be a performance penalty and highly restrictive.
Things Needed:
* I need feature ideas. I would like to add better tooling and performance analysis but I am not sure what additional use cases would be most beneficial
* Help writing test cases and finding defects
* Help needed with better documentation
* I don’t have Apple hardware but would love to add support for MacOS
* improvements to logging, error messaging
https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/blob/main/lib/services...
Screenshots: https://prettydiff.github.io/aphorio/screenshots/index.html
Project name: TNTStack
Project description: A monorepo template for building cross-platform apps. Write your code once and build for Web, Desktop, and Mobile.
What do you hope to build this month? I need to flesh out the landing page. Right now it only has a hero section, so I want to build out the missing parts (e.g Features, Pricing, etc. and a dedicated Download page UI) to make the template feel like a complete, out-of-the-box.
What kind of skills do you need? Frontend skills (Next.js, React, Tailwind, Shadcn UI etc.) to help design and implement the landing page sections.
Anyone looking for an easy first contribution: helping tweak the documentation, or reviewing/fixing our i18n translations (currently have 10 languages generated via LLM, so native speakers fixing them or adding new languages would be amazing).
QA / Testers to install and test the compiled application releases (desktop, mobile) on different operating systems, as well as test the CLI tool used to scaffold the project.
GitHub: https://github.com/odest/tntstack Landing Page: https://tntstack.odest.dev
Project description: A monorepo template for building cross-platform apps. Write your code once and build for Web, Desktop, and Mobile.
What do you hope to build this month? I need to flesh out the landing page. Right now it only has a hero section, so I want to build out the missing parts (e.g Features, Pricing, etc. and a dedicated Download page UI) to make the template feel like a complete, out-of-the-box.
What kind of skills do you need? Frontend skills (Next.js, React, Tailwind, Shadcn UI etc.) to help design and implement the landing page sections.
Anyone looking for an easy first contribution: helping tweak the documentation, or reviewing/fixing our i18n translations (currently have 10 languages generated via LLM, so native speakers fixing them or adding new languages would be amazing).
QA / Testers to install and test the compiled application releases (desktop, mobile) on different operating systems, as well as test the CLI tool used to scaffold the project.
GitHub: https://github.com/odest/tntstack Landing Page: https://tntstack.odest.dev
Heya, I can work on frontend part, needs to know what are you looking for. discord?
That sounds good. You can add me on Discord, my username is: socradest
Project name: DevLens
Project Description: javascript, nodejs, Reactjs/Nextjs codebase visualization Tool with AI insights.
What do you hope to build this month: Looking for making existing features more better.
What kind of skills do you need: TypeScript, Node.js, tsmorph, prompt engineering, Mathematics.
Link: https://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS
Project name: SkillCompass
Project description: A tool for testing, diagnosing, and improving AI agent skills. It helps make skill quality easier to inspect, compare, and improve over time instead of relying on guesswork.
Would also love people to just try it and tell us what feels useful vs. rough. Early feedback from people actually working with skills is probably the most valuable thing for us right now.
-> https://github.com/Evol-ai/SkillCompass
Project description: A tool for testing, diagnosing, and improving AI agent skills. It helps make skill quality easier to inspect, compare, and improve over time instead of relying on guesswork.
Would also love people to just try it and tell us what feels useful vs. rough. Early feedback from people actually working with skills is probably the most valuable thing for us right now.
-> https://github.com/Evol-ai/SkillCompass
woah! That's really interesting project, are you just looking for people to try out? or looking for any help too?
I am frontend developer with experience in React, next.js. do let me know if you are looking for someone like that too help out :)
Project name: BlkBolt
Project description: Experimental ML-based data encoding system. No keys, no traditional crypto primitives, just learned unique representations. Early stage and looking for collaboration.
This month: Demo for real-time signing and verification of AI content (streaming messages) and continue networking.
Skills: ML, crypto, security folks for independent validation stress testing and just general support
Link: https://lyfe.ninja/projects (or find us on LinkedIn)
Project description: Experimental ML-based data encoding system. No keys, no traditional crypto primitives, just learned unique representations. Early stage and looking for collaboration.
This month: Demo for real-time signing and verification of AI content (streaming messages) and continue networking.
Skills: ML, crypto, security folks for independent validation stress testing and just general support
Link: https://lyfe.ninja/projects (or find us on LinkedIn)
Project name: SystemG
Project description: A general-purpose process composer.
What do you hope to build this month? It'd be nice to flush out some of the more minor UX quirks.
What kind of skills do you need? Anyone with strong Rust skills and who knows their way around various Linux distros.
Website: https://sysg.dev
Github: https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg
Project description: A general-purpose process composer.
What do you hope to build this month? It'd be nice to flush out some of the more minor UX quirks.
What kind of skills do you need? Anyone with strong Rust skills and who knows their way around various Linux distros.
Website: https://sysg.dev
Github: https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg
Project Syncable CLI -
Analysis Engine, made to engineers get a quick overview of their codebase, security scannings, vulenrability checks and dependency checks.
It also comes with skills giving Claude Code/Codex/Gemini build in native linting capabilities for Dockerfiles, Helm charts, k8s manifest alongside validation and assessment capabilities.
Still early days but would love some extra hands!
Analysis Engine, made to engineers get a quick overview of their codebase, security scannings, vulenrability checks and dependency checks.
It also comes with skills giving Claude Code/Codex/Gemini build in native linting capabilities for Dockerfiles, Helm charts, k8s manifest alongside validation and assessment capabilities.
Still early days but would love some extra hands!
github can be found here: https://github.com/syncable-dev/syncable-cli
Project: the Ü programming language
Description: a modern safe and fast compiled language
What do I need: it would be nice to improve/fix working on operating systems other than GNU/Linux and Windows
Project's Github page: https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache
Description: a modern safe and fast compiled language
What do I need: it would be nice to improve/fix working on operating systems other than GNU/Linux and Windows
Project's Github page: https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache
Project name: Famir
Project description: Framework for websites mirroring.
What do you hope to build this month: Tests, documentation.
What kind of skills do you need: Node.js, Typescript.
GitHub: https://github.com/bitnoize/famir
Project description: Framework for websites mirroring.
What do you hope to build this month: Tests, documentation.
What kind of skills do you need: Node.js, Typescript.
GitHub: https://github.com/bitnoize/famir
Project name: aws-doctor
Project description: Powerful open-source CLI to audit security, costs, and best practices in AWS.
What do you hope to build this month? Add new waste checks for the tool
What kind of skills do you need? AWS, Golang
Project description: Powerful open-source CLI to audit security, costs, and best practices in AWS.
What do you hope to build this month? Add new waste checks for the tool
What kind of skills do you need? AWS, Golang
I forgot to add the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor
https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor
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