For next week's newsletter I'm thinking of laying out my general plans for 2023, and probably give some suggestions for anyone interested in helping to grow the unbundled web (whether by collaborating with me or by other means). I have three projects/areas of work myself: - Yakread: The core product is finished, so 2023 will be spent on marketing and optimizing. Hopefully Yakread gets on a decent growth trajectory before too long. - Writing the TFOS newsletter + building the community. I've been thrilled at the interest that https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/ received. I'd like to double down on my writing in 2023--I think there's a real opportunity to get some collaboration going of some sort, instead of just me toiling away in obscurity by myself 🙂. (Plus writing more will be helpful for marketing Yakread anyway.) - Open source. Primarily https://biffweb.com, my web framework. But also https://github.com/jacobobryant/platypub#platypub, a publishing platform I've built with Biff. I spend a day per week on open-source. In the first half of 2023 I want to get Platypub into a more polished state so that other people can use it easily. Platypub is a nice complement to Yakread, since it handles the "publishing" side of the unbundled web. For collaboration, I want to lay out more of my vision for the unbundled web and then give advice on various ways to go about participating (whether as a developer or as an early adopter--both are important!). Then I'll explain how the stuff I'm doing fits into that vision. So anyone who's interested specifically in my projects is welcome to help out in various ways (e.g. by using/sharing Yakread, or by contributing code to Platypub since it's open-source). Or you can work on other projects and use the unbundled-web-vision as a guide for how to make your projects fit in.

Hello 👋 fellow open-indie founder here.

hi! and welcome 🙂 calm looks handy--I believe tiny seed does a similar thing right? have you applied to either of those? I'm also particularly interested in pre-business stage. I think it'd be great to have more support for people who are interested in doing something but aren't exactly sure what yet. you may have seen this article already? https://sahillavingia.com/work if yakread grows enough I want to try doing something similar--I.e. everyone works part-time--and explicitly try to hire people who want to work part-time so they can work on open-source/entrepreneurship/independent research/etc e.g. the article even mentions how one of the employees used his extra time to work on his business (Circle) until he was ready to go full time on it