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Bartolomeo Hart
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Get Started with Wishlists on Github

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Ever wondered what happens to all those brilliant feature ideas and tool concepts floating around in peoples minds and conversations? They often remain just that, ideas.

That's why I created Wishlist, a GitHub-based ecosystem to transform scattered ideas into structured proposals that can eventually become "Awesome" projects.

🧞 How it works

Wishlist is essentially the "Pre-Awesome" stage in the innovation pipeline:

Web → Scattered Wishes → Wishlist → Feature/Tool → Implementation → Awesome
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The formal process is straightforward:

  1. Fork/clone the wish template from the repo
  2. Fill in the structured template with your idea
  3. Submit a pull request to the Wishlist
  4. Community members discuss, refine, and validate the proposal
  5. Developers can fund it, build it, or collaborate on implementation

Using an RFC-inspired structure with GitHub Repos for lists and Gists for individual wishes, every proposal is version-controlled, shareable, and ready for community input.

📜 Example wish

The first wish has just been submitted (with more wishes in the works)

AI-Powered Proposal Builder

An AI tool that converts simple ideas into structured technical proposals (wishes) in milisecond🤖

This tool would help:

  1. Newcomers without technical experience share great idea's
  2. Busy devs needing quick boilerplate buildplans
  3. Anyone with a good idea but lacking technical writing skills

The process is beautifully simple:

  1. Input your raw idea
  2. AI structures it properly
  3. Get a complete wish proposal
  4. Submit or refine

No more staring at blank templates wondering where to start!

Interested in building this idea?

Have a look at the wish example or read our manifesto and start adding your own brilliant ideas

Don't want to add your idea just yet?

Save and star⭐ our repo for later github.com/unameit10000000/wishlist

Thanks for helping in bridging the gap between brilliant ideas and implementation!

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