NotBuiltYet– Open-source library of civilisation problems worth solving
Details
- External ID
- 47167868
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- NotBuiltYet– Open-source library of civilisation problems worth solving
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Feb. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
an open-source, community-vetted repository of real-world problems that AI could solve but nobody's building yet. Each idea goes through a process:Someone identifies a real inefficiency — something that could be 10x or 90% better with AI The community researches market size, existing solutions, technical feasibility, and potential impact Domain experts vote, critique, and refine Ideas that survive get a viability score and a detailed blueprint — ready for someone to pick up and buildEverything is MIT licensed. The goal is simple: give builders a head start on problems that actually matter. Looking for: domain experts who can vet ideas, engineers who want to pick one and build it, and anyone who's spotted a real-world problem that AI could solve but nobody's tackling.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous agent research and evaluation
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source problem library for civilization challenges
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard community catalog and content management web app with user submissions and voting.
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