Project Map — a sample project post you can copy

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Type: Open-source · Research · Collaboration Stage: Early development Looking for: Collaborators & contributors 🙌

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The one-liner

Project Map is an open knowledge-mapping platform that turns scattered ideas, research, and projects into a single, explorable map.

If you can say what your project does in one bold sentence, you're already ahead. That's your hook — put it right at the top.

The problem 🎯

Knowledge is everywhere and connected to nothing. Researchers, students, and creators keep their notes, papers, and links in a dozen disconnected apps — and the relationships between ideas get lost. When you can't see how things connect, you rebuild the same understanding over and over.

What it does

Project Map gives every idea a place on a shared map, and every connection a visible line:

• 🗺️ Visual maps — drop concepts, papers, and projects as nodes; link them to show how they relate.
• 🔗 Living connections — follow a thread from a single idea to the whole field around it.
• 👥 Built together — maps are collaborative, so a community's knowledge grows in one place.
• 🌍 Open by default — export, remix, and build on any public map.

How it works

A quick look under the hood — keep this part honest and simple:

Layer	Choice
Frontend	React + a canvas library for the interactive graph
Backend	Node API with a graph-friendly data model
Data	Nodes & edges (ideas and the links between them)
Hosting	Self-hostable + a free public instance

[ Idea ] ──relates to──▶ [ Paper ]
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 builds on                cited by
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[ Project ] ◀──inspired by── [ Person ]

Roadmap 🛣️

• Core map editor (nodes + links)
• Public, shareable maps
• Real-time collaboration
• Import from Markdown & Zotero
• AI-assisted "suggest a connection"

What we're looking for 🤝

This is the most important section of any project post — be specific about the help you need. Vague asks get ignored; clear ones get answered.

• A frontend dev who's played with graph/canvas rendering.
• A researcher or educator to shape real-world use cases.
• A designer to make big maps feel calm, not overwhelming.

How to get involved

• ⭐ Star / follow to say "keep going."
• 💬 Comment with an idea, a question, or "I'm in."
• 🛠️ Grab a task from the roadmap and open a thread on Olii Collab.

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Want to post your own project? Use this exact skeleton — one-liner → problem → what it does → how it works → roadmap → what you need → how to help — and you'll have a post people actually want to join. New here? Start with the Writing Guide. 🚀