Can you explain how I might do that? You can just provide a link if it’s easier. The source code for the current app is held by David, my co-founder, who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth (at least with regards to my emails to him). The list of happiness-suggestions is just in a spreadsheet.
You’d make a repository on e.g. GitHub and upload the code there. Then other people can see it and suggest changes, or can fork (make a copy of) the repository and start their own thing based off it.
Pushing the code into the open is the easy part; if the technical cofounder was on board with open sourcing it that would be very easy for them. The hard parts are things like:
Does the code contain anything you don’t have the rights to share?
Does the code contain any passwords, tokens, or other secrets? (It shouldn’t, but this is common.)
Is the code a mess that they’re worried would reflect poorly on them as a developer? (Very likely; I deal with this by just pushing things publicly anyway, but I also have a good enough traditional resume that I’m not reliant on my github resume.)
Can you explain how I might do that? You can just provide a link if it’s easier. The source code for the current app is held by David, my co-founder, who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth (at least with regards to my emails to him). The list of happiness-suggestions is just in a spreadsheet.
You’d make a repository on e.g. GitHub and upload the code there. Then other people can see it and suggest changes, or can fork (make a copy of) the repository and start their own thing based off it.
Pushing the code into the open is the easy part; if the technical cofounder was on board with open sourcing it that would be very easy for them. The hard parts are things like:
Does the code contain anything you don’t have the rights to share?
Does the code contain any passwords, tokens, or other secrets? (It shouldn’t, but this is common.)
Is the code a mess that they’re worried would reflect poorly on them as a developer? (Very likely; I deal with this by just pushing things publicly anyway, but I also have a good enough traditional resume that I’m not reliant on my github resume.)