Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)
Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format: Project name Project description What do you hope to build this month? What kind of skills do you need? Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.
Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
Panzerschrek
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
odest
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
ra0x3
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
rox_kd
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!
bitnoize
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
lyfeninja
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)
elC0mpa
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