I am not sure if you are requesting to see the project, or if you are making a complaint of some sort. It’s easy enough for anyone to PM me and request to see the project. Just in case, I updated my post to explicitly invite people to PM me to see the project.
In case this wasn’t clear, the project isn’t finished yet. Before dumping a lot more hours into it, I want to see whether I’m duplicating anyone’s work.
The fact that it is not yet finished is why I did not publish anything about it so far. It’s not ready to be published.
The main point of this post is simply to find out whether there are others doing a similar project, and find other people who are interested in helping make sure the project gets completed.
You’ve described a project at a fairly high level of abstraction. You’ve already put 20-40 hours in, so your research has already likely taken some specific directions. Sharing a brief summary of this would help people with compatible approaches who think you’re doing potentially overlapping work notice that they should reach out to you. It would also help save the time of those who aren’t members of that group.
Peter just suggested you mention more details about the project, in the comments. Daniel did too. As a reader, I would have benefited if you’d replied by giving them details about the project. I expect there are more readers like me, who might reach out if a project seemed like it was going in an interesting direction (even if not my preferred direction), but not without such a specific reason to think it’s worth their time.
If there are specific reasons for discretion, of course, you can say so.
Okay, what information do you think they need? You mentioned “directions” and “approaches” but that is very vague. I need the specific questions you think readers need answered before they will notify me of similar projects or express interest in what I’m doing.
I am not sure if you are requesting to see the project, or if you are making a complaint of some sort. It’s easy enough for anyone to PM me and request to see the project. Just in case, I updated my post to explicitly invite people to PM me to see the project.
In case this wasn’t clear, the project isn’t finished yet. Before dumping a lot more hours into it, I want to see whether I’m duplicating anyone’s work.
The fact that it is not yet finished is why I did not publish anything about it so far. It’s not ready to be published.
The main point of this post is simply to find out whether there are others doing a similar project, and find other people who are interested in helping make sure the project gets completed.
You’ve described a project at a fairly high level of abstraction. You’ve already put 20-40 hours in, so your research has already likely taken some specific directions. Sharing a brief summary of this would help people with compatible approaches who think you’re doing potentially overlapping work notice that they should reach out to you. It would also help save the time of those who aren’t members of that group.
Peter just suggested you mention more details about the project, in the comments. Daniel did too. As a reader, I would have benefited if you’d replied by giving them details about the project. I expect there are more readers like me, who might reach out if a project seemed like it was going in an interesting direction (even if not my preferred direction), but not without such a specific reason to think it’s worth their time.
If there are specific reasons for discretion, of course, you can say so.
I think you’re saying “There isn’t enough information for most readers to decide whether they want to PM you.” is that right?
Yes
Okay, what information do you think they need? You mentioned “directions” and “approaches” but that is very vague. I need the specific questions you think readers need answered before they will notify me of similar projects or express interest in what I’m doing.