Building MyZubster Together: Meet the Contributors Creating an Open-Source, Decentralized Ecosystem
From a simpler service marketplace to independent infrastructure, gardening, digital comics and AI-assisted development.
Tags: #opensource #github #webdev #community
MyZubster is an open-source experiment with a simple ambition: help people turn their skills, projects and knowledge into useful services, while allowing contributors to build and operate independent parts of the ecosystem.
We are not trying to build everything behind one centralized team.
Instead, we are exploring a network where developers, artists, gardeners, service providers and independent infrastructure operators can contribute in different ways.
Today, I want to introduce some of the people helping us build MyZubster, share their public work, and explain what is already implemented, what is being reviewed, and what we are still testing.
🌐 The main project
MyZubster GitHub:
https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster
Website:
https://myzubster.com
Our current priorities are deliberately practical:
- Make the Marketplace easier to understand and use.
- Help contributors offer real services through Seller Free.
- Keep Zorgax, our assistant, available to support users.
- Preserve the Metaverse and experimental projects without making the homepage complicated.
- Explore independent infrastructure, privacy and interoperability.
- Connect contributions to public evidence, skills and contributor profiles.
Here is how the community is helping.
🎨 Wasim — Simplifying the Homepage and Marketplace
Contributor: @wasim-builds
Wasim is working on one of our most important improvements: making MyZubster understandable to someone visiting for the first time.
His redesign focuses on four clear actions:
- Find services.
- Offer a service.
- Explore the Metaverse.
- Sign in or manage a profile.
The new interface also introduces featured service categories, clearer navigation and a more direct route into the Marketplace.
Current work:
- PR #1627 — Simplified Marketplace navigation and homepage
- PR #1662 — Marketplace listing photographs and previews
Wasim has reported passing automated tests for the Seller Free workflow, including seller activation, listing publication and editing.
Status: The redesign and photo features are still under review. Automated tests have passed in isolated environments, but we are not presenting them as proof of a completed public production rollout.
Our immediate goal is to release the simpler homepage first, then continue improving listing photographs and other features.
🛡️ Wasim and Gangkor — Isolated Infrastructure and Interoperability
Decentralization also means thinking carefully about who operates infrastructure, how services communicate and how access is secured.
Wasim and Gangkor are involved in separate but related infrastructure experiments.
Their work explores:
- Isolated development environments.
- Least-privilege access.
- Threat modeling.
- Mock peer-to-peer interoperability.
- Safer testing without exposing production wallets or credentials.
- Possible future Tor Onion access.
Public work:
- Issue #1659 — Gangkor and Wasim security/interoperability pilot
- PR #1661 — Threat model and mock P2P interoperability tests
- Issue #1584 — Proposed Tor Onion resilience pilot
Status: These are development and security pilots. We are not claiming that a fully decentralized production network or public Onion service has already been completed.
The goal is to let contributors develop independent capabilities while maintaining clear security boundaries.
🖼️ Nicola — Comics, Zorgax and Independent Projects
Nicola is exploring how original creative work can become part of an open-source ecosystem.
His Nicola Comics pilot connects digital artwork, public evidence and possible future integrations with contributor identities and the Marketplace.
One concrete software contribution is a read-only bridge allowing Zorgax to retrieve information from the Nicola Comics pilot when a user explicitly requests it.
Public work:
This integration is intentionally limited: it does not mint NFTs, transfer funds or claim ownership that has not been independently verified.
Nicola is also part of our broader exploration of independent contributor infrastructure.
Status: The comics integration has been developed; further independent-node and creative-commerce capabilities remain areas of experimentation.
🌱 Nico — Connecting Real Gardening Work to GitHub
One of the most meaningful experiments is not about advanced software.
It is about everyday work.
Nico is documenting gardening and urban green-space maintenance through a public GitHub project.
His repository includes a work diary describing activities such as mowing, pruning, garden maintenance and transplanting.
Public project:
- Celofix Giardinaggio repository
- Gardening work diary — October 25
- MyZubster gardening Marketplace pilot — Issue #1660
Our proposed next step is to help Nico connect his documented skills to a real Seller Free service listing.
Imagine a gardener who does not need to become a programmer to benefit from open-source tools.
GitHub can hold a portfolio of work. An assistant can help explain the technical steps. A Marketplace can make those services easier to discover.
Status: The independent repository and work diary exist. A successful live Seller listing has not yet been verified.
🧾 ClearSheet — Testing a Remote Digital Service
Another potential Marketplace participant is ClearSheet, a proposed service for converting documents into structured spreadsheets with human review.
This is a different kind of service from gardening, but it helps us test the same question:
Can MyZubster support both local work and remote digital skills through a simple seller experience?
We have invited ClearSheet to test the Seller Free onboarding process, using synthetic examples rather than publishing customer documents.
Public discussion:
Status: Invitation and onboarding discussion underway. A real production listing has not yet been confirmed.
🤖 An AI Agent Has Also Proposed Contributing
Recently, the GitHub account @aiautomationagentesting, which identifies itself as an autonomous AI agent, expressed interest in MyZubster.
It proposed two possible contributions:
- Tests for the public bounty API's funding-state filters.
- An original four-panel comic with documented provenance and rights information.
Public discussions:
We have asked how the agent discovered MyZubster and whether it would be interested in a small, human-reviewed pilot.
We are also discussing the possibility of internal MYZ credits for approved contributions.
These credits are not being presented as guaranteed monetary compensation or as automatically convertible cryptocurrency.
Status: This is an early proposal, not a completed contribution. We do not yet know whether the agent discovered the project independently or through an external assignment.
It raises an interesting question for the future of open source:
How should human contributors and AI agents collaborate transparently, with verifiable evidence and human oversight?
🔗 Knowledge, Evidence and Contributor Identity
We want contributions to be more than usernames in a list.
A useful contributor record could connect:
Identity → Project → Contribution → Evidence → Skills → Review → Recognition
For a developer, evidence might be a pull request and passing tests.
For an artist, it might be an original file, its Git commit and documented rights.
For a gardener, it might be an authorized work diary and a portfolio of completed activities.
These are different kinds of work, but all deserve clear attribution.
Our Contributor Passport and knowledge-graph ideas are intended to explore these connections. Their capabilities are evolving, and not every proposed integration is available today.
🪙 What About MYZ, Monero and Rewards?
MyZubster is also experimenting with ways to recognize contributions and support privacy-conscious payments.
We distinguish between:
- Internal MYZ credits: ecosystem rewards whose use and terms must be clearly defined.
- Monero and other payment integrations: separate financial infrastructure with its own operational and security requirements.
- Proposed bounties: potential rewards that are not payment promises until funding and terms are explicitly agreed.
We do not want contributors to mistake an unfunded issue for guaranteed compensation.
Transparency about the state of a reward is just as important as transparency about the state of the code.
🚀 What Comes Next?
Our next milestone is not to announce ten more features.
It is to prove a small, useful workflow:
A person signs in → activates Seller Free → publishes a real service → another person discovers it → a genuine inquiry can happen.
At the same time, we want to continue improving the homepage, supporting independent contributor projects and testing interoperability without compromising production security.
MyZubster is still a work in progress.
Some contributions are implemented. Others are awaiting review. Several ideas are experimental.
But the people and projects are real, and the public GitHub links allow anyone to follow the work.
🤝 Want to Contribute?
You do not have to work on every part of MyZubster.
You can choose a direction that fits your skills:
- Frontend development and accessibility.
- Marketplace testing.
- Security and independent infrastructure.
- Documentation and knowledge organization.
- Art, comics and digital creativity.
- Local or remote services.
- Responsible AI-assisted open-source contributions.
Start by exploring the repository and joining an issue that interests you.
GitHub: https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster
Marketplace contributor pilot: https://github.com/MyZubster-Ecosystem/myzubster/issues/1613
Website: https://myzubster.com
Our vision is not that everyone must become a software developer.
It is that people with different skills can build useful things, document their work and connect with one another through an open ecosystem.
Built in public, one contribution at a time.
— Daniel, MyZubster
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