Share your problem.
Someone solves it.
Write down the thing that's slowing your work down, in whatever words you'd use to explain it to a coworker. Someone who has already run into it — or built something for it — takes it on and sends back something you can use.
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Why now
Software is getting made by the people who need it.
As tools that ordinary people can use get more common, what gets built changes. A lot of it is small and specific now — one report, one sheet, one step that used to take an afternoon. It gets made by the person who had the problem. This site is for those people, on both ends of it.
Working together is the future.
Find one to work onBuilt by whoever needed it
Not a product team guessing at it. A bookkeeper who automated her own reports, an office manager who got tired of retyping the same invoice. Most of them work alone, and nobody else ever sees what they made.
You learn more on a real one
Building another to-do app teaches you the parts you already know. Somebody's actual problem comes with a real file, a real deadline, and a person on the other end who will tell you if it worked.
Nobody should do this alone
The person stuck on the problem and the person who could handle it in an afternoon have never had a decent place to find each other. So we made one.
How it works
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Share your problem
Write it the way you'd say it to a coworker. Attach the file that's causing trouble if you have one — names and account numbers come out before anyone sees it.
About two minutes.
Someone works on it
Someone who has hit the same wall, already built something for it, or knows which two programs talk to each other picks it up.
More than one answer is fine.
Problem solved
You get back something you can open and use — a link, a spreadsheet, a short set of steps. If two people answered, you keep the one that fits.
You decide. Nobody's selling.
Who's on the other end
Not a job board and not a class. People who ran into your problem somewhere else and got past it.
Been there
They've solved it before
Same wall, different shop. They know what actually worked and what wasted a weekend, and they'll tell you which is which.
Already built
They already built it
Somebody made a tool for this once and it still works. You get to use it instead of starting from scratch.
Knows the wiring
They know the connection
The two programs you already pay for might talk to each other. Somebody who has connected that exact pair can tell you in a sentence.
Two ways in.
A good answer is a link, a few sentences, and something that works the first time you click it. That's all it has to be. You don't need to know what the answer is called to ask for one, and you don't need to be an expert to give one.