A public service announcement for the open‑source community
Are you a developer with free time, strong opinions about licensing, and a mysterious urge to build things no one asked for but everyone secretly needs?
Do you enjoy phrases like “local inference,” “UNO API,” and “I swear LibreOffice is actually good now”?
Do you look at GPT4All and think,
“Wow, this should absolutely be duct‑taped into a word processor”?
Great.
I have a project for you.
🎯 The Mission
Create a LibreOffice Writer plugin that connects to GPT4All so writers everywhere can enjoy the thrill of AI‑assisted drafting without:
- paying subscription fees
- sending their novel to a cloud server in another hemisphere
- pretending Google Docs is a personality
- or installing 14 browser extensions written by someone named WolfByte
This is an idea I am giving away for free.
I am not hiring you.
I am not paying you.
I am not even offering “exposure.”
You will receive zero compensation except the deep, private satisfaction of knowing you fixed a problem the entire open‑source world has been politely ignoring.
🧠 Requirements
You should be able to:
- write a LibreOffice extension
- talk to GPT4All locally
- tolerate the UNO API without crying
- and say “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature” with a straight face
If you can do all that, congratulations — you are already in the top 0.01% of humanity.
🏆 What You Get
- bragging rights
- a permanent place in the hearts of privacy nerds
- the gratitude of every neurodivergent writer who wants AI help without a monthly bill
- and the knowledge that you have done something objectively more useful than half the apps on Product Hunt
📬 How to Apply
You don’t.
Just build it.
Fork it.
Ship it.
Tell the internet.
I’ll link to it and call you a hero.
Scored by Copilot. Conducted by Leslie Lanagan.
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