u/Full-Banana553

Community-driven story platform: Write, Vote, and Merge

For the past few months, I've had this idea of creating an open-source storybook. I wasn't really sure where to post it, so I'm just dropping it here. Hear me out.

You know how Marvel and DC have different timelines and parallel universes? I want to do something like that, but with a single linear story that has room for multiple possibilities to branch off it.

Here's how it would work.

The rules are pretty simple. There's a storyline with a beginning, a plot, and an ending. I'm not much of a writer myself, so the idea is to let other people read the plot, think it through, continue the story, and push their version to the main storyline. Basically like Git branches. You create your own branch off the core story, add something to it, and submit it like a pull request. Then it gets reviewed.

Everyone can see the proposed story, scenes, and characters, and we could have some kind of voting system to pick the best version before merging it into the core story.

We'd set a few ground rules too, like character traits, habits, and core plot points. The main rule is that whatever you write has to fit the plot.

Let me give a quick example.

Story plot: a 45+ year old man takes retirement and starts solo traveling for about 2 or 3 years. Along the way he visits a lot of places. After about a year of traveling, he suddenly gets arrested in some random state because a string of serial murders across multiple states happens to match the pattern of his travels. So who's the killer? Is it the 45+ year old man? Is someone framing him? Where did he go? Who did he meet?

The ending: it was our protagonist all along. But why? What could have happened to him?

Between the beginning and that ending, there's so much room for people to fill in scenes and versions. That's how we'd pull in creative minds to figure out the whats and the whys.

So yeah, that's the basic idea. I have a few more interesting plots in mind too, but I'm just not a great writer myself.

Let me know if this sounds like a good idea, or a completely useless one. I really do want to build a space where people can come together and contribute to something great.

How to answer the question like : “Why should we hire you when we can just use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or other AI models to generate the code, orchestrate, manage, deploy, and logical thinking? Isn’t it just typing English now?”

To save us some time, please DO NOT suggest any of these "lame" or played-out answers, because modern LLMs have already solved them:

• “AI can’t think logically”
• “AI makes mistakes”
• “AI can’t solve problems”
• “You need humans for logic”
• “AI can’t understand requirements”
• “You’re hiring me to prompt the AI”
• “Humans understand business problems better”

The issue is: modern frontier models are already getting surprisingly good at reasoning, architecture discussions, debugging, and even finding vulnerabilities.

What’s a genuinely strong, future-proof answer to this question in 2026?

Not defensive answers against AI, but realistic answers that explain where engineers still create value even as AI becomes increasingly capable.

instead of shrinking it to 350cc and keeping same price, if they keep the same 400 cc and increase the price, would you buy?

On 14th at 12pm is anyone going from Kochi,angamaly, Chalakudy to Coimbatore? Car or bike?

I need a ride to go to coimbatore on that day as fast as possible, but there’s no rides in BlaBlaCar and quick ride is asking for company details

Bus is taking around 5hrs time and premium was not available at that time

I’m thinking of building an open-source site where you first choose your niche/task like blog writing, LinkedIn posts, code completion, starting a full project, research, reports, image prompts, etc. and then it gives you the right prompt structure for that use case, along with model-specific versions for Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Codex.

What I want is not just a dump of prompts. I want something that also shows the instructions/rules/format to use, expected output structure, and which model is actually better for that kind of task.

I checked a few existing options. PromptBase is useful as a prompt marketplace, but it feels more like buying/discovering prompts than picking the best workflow for a niche. AIPRM has a huge number of templates, but it feels more template-heavy and ChatGPT-centric than truly multi-model. Anthropic’s prompt engineering docs are genuinely useful, especially around structure, examples, chaining, and evaluation, but they’re Claude-focused and not really built as a niche-first product.

The gap I’m seeing is:
“Pick what you’re trying to do” -> “see the best prompt setup” -> “pick the best model for it” -> “use a clean version with proper rules/format.”

For coding, I especially want it to include things like project rules, architecture constraints, response format, refactor instructions, and quality checks,not just “write me code.”

Does this sound worth building, or would this just end up being another prompt directory?

Would you actually use it? And if yes, which niche would you want first?

As the title said, I want to earn 5 lakhs in 9 months, I am a software developer I’m already saving around 20k/month which add up 2 lakhs easily but I want to keep them as safety reserve

Suggest me some side hustles that are really practical, please don’t say : fill surveys, freelancing, mutual funds, stocks, multi level marketing or any others scams

Profile : software developer working in AI field

I get 2-3hrs of free time a day

Can build powerful agents and projects but never freelanced, even freelancing has competition now

Some people say : build faceless videos, social media automation and stuff, I don’t feel they are practical enough and someone will come and say I’m earning in dollars, that’s great but still I feel it that way

Some options I saw :

1. Build ai tools and sell as a product or subscription

2. Website building, content writing, maintaining for small scale business (this needs lot of marketing and cold calls which I’m hesitant)

3. Niche specific agents and subscriptions based api calls in api platforms