I want to love this, and I just signed up, but I think I fail to see this platform’s differentiator: why would I go there rather than any of the other communities/forums that already exist? For example, I develop a tool for music performance/production in Pure Data, what will I find on UnfinishedProjects that I wouldn’t find on LinuxMusicians or Pure Data’s forum? I tinker with Arduino, why would I go to UnfinishedProjects rather than an Arduino forum? I’m slowly building my own answer as I write this, but IMO that’s what this post and the welcome page should be answering clearly: Why join this, rather than the thousand other options?
Also, as far as I understand, the wiki is meant to be an easy-to-browse directory of all projects that may already be discussed somewhere in the forum, but I see no clear connection between them. If I find an interesting project in the wiki, shouldn’t there be a simple way to find and join existing conversations on that topic? And the other way around, it would be nice to build a wiki page from information entered in the forum itself. I’m just thinking that any extra step in creating and finding stuff will slow down the growth of the platform.
Apologies if I just missed existing features, I’ve only spent 20min on it and I’m trying to give constructive first-impression feedback :)
Thanks for your answer! I totally understand that you need to start somewhere to get started and that it will evolve from there. Cheers for making the first step!
Your answer to the expected use cases is also pretty much what came to my mind as I was writing the question. A couple of examples I though of were e.g. I develop an app and I’m looking for visual artists to improve the design, or for music producers to make a soundtrack for my game, or for testers to give me real use feedback, all of which are indeed hard to find in the niche tool-focused communities.
I’ll try to take the time to write about my projects in the forum, point taken. It’s always hard for me to consider my projects as being good enough for sharing, but I think they may benefit from a fresh eye.