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{ "slug": "community-knowledge-garden", "title": "Community Knowledge Garden", "summary": "A self-hosted neighborhood wiki + Q&A that keeps local knowledge alive — pages are plain markdown files, search is instant, and it runs on a $35 Raspberry Pi.", "keywords": [ "flask", "markdown", "lan" ] }	{ "slug": "solar-powered-lora-mesh", "title": "Solar LoRa Mesh", "summary": "A disaster-proof mesh of solar-powered LoRa nodes that pass text messages village-wide when cell towers go down.", "keywords": [ "esp32", "sx1276", "solar" ] }	{ "slug": "diy-heart-rate-monitor", "title": "Open Heart", "summary": "A fully open-source BLE heart-rate monitor: see your PPG waveform, your own BPM algorithm, and a case you can print.", "keywords": [ "esp32", "max30102", "ble" ] }	{ "slug": "tree-murmur", "title": "Tree Murmur", "summary": "Turn a street tree into a sound installation — sap flow, soil moisture, temperature — a three-minute audio portrait of the tree's day.", "keywords": [ "pico w", "sensors", "sonify" ] }	{ "slug": "bus-stop-city-nature", "title": "Bus Stop City Nature", "summary": "Adopt-a-stop kits that turn dead asphalt bus stops into rain-fed micro-gardens with plant care, weather, and poetry behind a QR code.", "keywords": [ "ollas", "QR", "planting" ] }	{ "slug": "village-resilience-ops-center", "title": "Village Resilience Ops", "summary": "One low-power dashboard for a village — fuel, water, weather, supplies, alerts — legible on 2G and printable.", "keywords": [ "flask", "sqlite", "charts" ] }	{ "slug": "weather-station-collective", "title": "Weather Station Collective", "summary": "A $40 DIY weather station network owned by neighbors — block-by-block forecasts and an open archive.", "keywords": [ "micropython", "bme280", "map" ] }	{ "slug": "community-assistant", "title": "Community Assistant", "summary": "Pi-hole for knowledge — a local AI that answers only from your community's own documents: no cloud, cited answers.", "keywords": [ "local llm", "rag", "offline" ] }	{ "slug": "open-school-solar-radio", "title": "Open School Solar Radio", "summary": "A solar-powered offline radio that turns markdown lessons into audio for schools with unreliable internet.", "keywords": [ "pi", "tts", "solar" ] }	{ "slug": "common-ground-map", "title": "Common Ground Map", "summary": "A privacy-first map of everything shareable nearby — tools, seeds, skills, spaces, rides — built in one HTML file.", "keywords": [ "leaflet", "json", "sharing" ] }	{ "slug": "community-fridge-watcher", "title": "Community Fridge Watcher", "summary": "A $30 ESP32 sentinel perched on the community fridge — cold, closed, and stocked? It texts the mods before things spoil.", "keywords": [ "esp32", "sensors", "food" ] }	{ "slug": "rain-barrel-network", "title": "Rain Barrel Network", "summary": "Every rain barrel becomes a data point: ultrasonic level sensors that tell you when to water, when to wait, and how the block's water wealth changes.", "keywords": [ "ultrasonic", "esp32", "water" ] }	{ "slug": "street-corner-walkability", "title": "Street-Corner Walkability", "summary": "Neighbors score every curb, ramp, and crossing 0–100; the map turns complaints into a block-by-block work order for the city.", "keywords": [ "crowdsource", "map", "access" ] }	{ "slug": "microgrid-subscribe", "title": "Microgrid Subscribe", "summary": "A runnable solar-sharing ledger with a hash-chained, printable record — neighbors subscribe watts, not contracts.", "keywords": [ "ledger", "energy", "trust" ] }	{ "slug": "bus-stop-eta-beacon", "title": "Bus Stop ETA Beacon", "summary": "Solar e-ink signs fed by a GPS puck that shares its location over a LoRa mesh — real ETAs where the schedule never reaches.", "keywords": [ "lora", "e-ink", "offline" ] }	{ "slug": "block-air-quality-grid", "title": "Block-Level Air Quality Grid", "summary": "A 1km² grid of $50 PM2.5 nodes with a live heatmap — mothers, coaches, and asthmatics finally see the air they breathe.", "keywords": [ "pm2.5", "mesh", "health" ] }	{ "slug": "tool-library-ledger", "title": "Tool Library Lending Ledger", "summary": "A text-first checkout system for neighborhood tool libraries: reserve by SMS at the door, no app, no staff, no lost drills.", "keywords": [ "text-first", "checkout", "civic" ] }	{ "slug": "deaf-owned-sound-map", "title": "Deaf-Owned Sound Map", "summary": "Crowd-annotated quiet streets and access points, by and for Deaf communities — vibration-safe routes and light-based alerts.", "keywords": [ "accessibility", "map", "crowdsource" ] }	{ "slug": "adopt-a-storm-drain", "title": "Adopt-a-Storm-Drain", "summary": "Neighbors adopt drains and clear them before rain; a cheap level sensor turns the whole block into a flood early-warning net.", "keywords": [ "water", "civic", "sensors" ] }	{ "slug": "feral-fruit-atlas", "title": "Feral Fruit Atlas", "summary": "Every public fruit tree mapped with a 'pluckable today' indicator — from loquats on the corner to the abandoned plum alley.", "keywords": [ "map", "food", "foraging" ] }	{ "slug": "community-cloth-cycle", "title": "Community Cloth Cycle", "summary": "A sanitization-rated circular library for cloth diapers and baby clothes — sizes rotate, hygiene is tracked, waste never starts.", "keywords": [ "circular", "textiles", "health" ] }	{ "slug": "mosquito-census", "title": "Mosquito Census", "summary": "A solar TinyML counter that learns a pond's mosquito rhythm from wingbeat FFTs — one box, one public-health data point.", "keywords": [ "tinyml", "solar", "health" ] }	{ "slug": "food-forest-planner", "title": "Food Forest Planner", "summary": "A 7-layer edible-ecosystem planner for vacant lots with a 10-year plan, guilds mapped to sun and soil, yield per square meter.", "keywords": [ "permaculture", "planner", "food" ] }	{ "slug": "porch-light-network", "title": "Porch Light Network", "summary": "A LoRa 'walking home safe' web: press a button, the block's porch lights guide you home — no phone, no app, no asking.", "keywords": [ "lora", "safety", "light" ] }	{ "slug": "community-snow-watch", "title": "Community Snow Watch", "summary": "Neighbors digitize the sidewalk-clearing map so the snowed-in get help, plows get targets, and shovels get volunteers.", "keywords": [ "civic", "map", "winter" ] }	{ "slug": "time-bank-v2", "title": "Time Bank v2", "summary": "A triple-entry time and skill exchange with an offline-first kiosk mode — trust is written, not assumed.", "keywords": [ "ledger", "skills", "offline" ] }	{ "slug": "zero-data-tonight", "title": "Zero-Data Tonight", "summary": "An SMS-only neighborhood bulletin: market, rides, lost & found, storm warnings — it works on any phone, even off-grid.", "keywords": [ "sms", "offline", "community" ] }	{ "slug": "makerspace-inventory-brain", "title": "Makerspace Inventory Brain", "summary": "A tiny edge-AI that watches the shop: what's where, what's low, what's broken — the inventory answers itself.", "keywords": [ "edge-ai", "vision", "shop" ] }	{ "slug": "repair-cafe-hub", "title": "Repair Café Hub", "summary": "Scheduler, skill triage, and parts tracking for community repair events — a thousand things fixed, one small web app.", "keywords": [ "scheduler", "repair", "parts" ] }	{ "slug": "community-ev-shuttle-mesh", "title": "Community EV Shuttle Mesh", "summary": "A neighbor-run, solar-juiced shared shuttle that fills the last-mile gap — batched rides, charge ledger, printable route sheets.", "keywords": [ "ev", "solar", "mobility" ] }	{ "slug": "duplicator-station", "title": "One-Click Space Forge", "summary": "A gallery + config wizard that turns any public Space into yours — pick, configure, and duplicate with one pre-filled link.", "keywords": [ "hub-api", "wizard", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "repo-card-generator", "title": "Repo Card Generator", "summary": "Paste any model/space/dataset URL and download a beautiful 1200x630 share-card PNG — rendered 100% in your browser.", "keywords": [ "canvas", "share", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "hub-radar", "title": "Hub Radar", "summary": "\"Find me a model like X\" — semantic search across the Hub computed locally with Transformers.js. No API key, no GPU.", "keywords": [ "transformers.js", "semantic", "search" ] }	{ "slug": "model-diff", "title": "Model Diff", "summary": "Side-by-side diff of two model repos: config, tokenizer, files, license — with a real line-level diff. Pick the right one fast.", "keywords": [ "diff", "configs", "compare" ] }	{ "slug": "cost-oracle", "title": "Engine Cost Oracle", "summary": "Type your workload and compare serverless vs CPU vs ZeroGPU vs GPU. Pick the cheapest honest engine and stop overpaying.", "keywords": [ "pricing", "calculator", "gradio" ] }	{ "slug": "space-health-checker", "title": "Space Health Checker", "summary": "A free doctor visit for your Spaces: stage, hardware, logs, secrets drift, and plain-language warnings (plus a letter grade).", "keywords": [ "uptime", "alerts", "dashboard" ] }	{ "slug": "model-card-linter", "title": "Model Card Linter", "summary": "Grades your model card 0-100 with an actionable checklist — license, sections, eval metric, bias, code example.", "keywords": [ "quality", "checklist", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "tiny-paste", "title": "Tiny Paste", "summary": "A pastebin / key-value store backed by datasets you own: 100% free forever, human API, works from any Space.", "keywords": [ "datasets", "key-value", "gradio" ] }	{ "slug": "embedding-playground", "title": "Embedding Playground", "summary": "Compare 10 embedding models side by side in the browser: nearest neighbors, distance matrix, 2D projections.", "keywords": [ "geometry", "pca", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "zero-gpu-token-bench", "title": "ZeroGPU Token Bench", "summary": "Head-to-head tokens/sec and $/1k tokens across small LLMs on ZeroGPU. Real numbers, published as a dataset leaderboard.", "keywords": [ "zerogpu", "benchmark", "llm" ] }	{ "slug": "secret-vault", "title": "Secret Vault", "summary": "Encrypted cross-Space secrets manager: AES-GCM vault in a private dataset, one-click push and rotation across all your Spaces.", "keywords": [ "secrets", "encryption", "gradio" ] }	{ "slug": "chat-with-any-repo", "title": "Chat with Any Repo", "summary": "Chat with any repo: README + configs chunked and embedded locally, answers with citations, nothing leaves the browser.", "keywords": [ "rag", "browser", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "dataset-explorer-deck", "title": "Dataset Explorer Deck", "summary": "Flip through any dataset as labeled cards — filter, search, copy rows as JSON. No GPU, no downloads.", "keywords": [ "parquet", "browse", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "repo-of-the-day", "title": "Repo of the Day Digest", "summary": "A daily, explainable digest of trending models, Spaces, datasets and papers, scored with open heuristics and archived to a dataset.", "keywords": [ "trending", "digest", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "readme-doctor", "title": "README Doctor", "summary": "Watches READMEs and configs of repos you depend on, diffs changes, and tells you what changed and why it might matter.", "keywords": [ "watch", "diff", "notify" ] }	{ "slug": "gradio-gallery-crawler", "title": "Gradio Gallery Crawler", "summary": "Finds any Gradio Space endpoints from config.json and turns them into live try-it buttons — a gallery of the Hub interactive apps.", "keywords": [ "gradio", "api", "gallery" ] }	{ "slug": "space-autopilot", "title": "Space Autopilot", "summary": "Plain-English Space ops: \"pause my GPU Spaces at night\" or \"put this on T4 with 2h sleep\" become exact API calls with dry-run.", "keywords": [ "nlp", "ops", "gradio" ] }	{ "slug": "data-copilot", "title": "Data Copilot", "summary": "Chat with any dataset: filter, group, aggregate and chart via natural language on a free CPU Space. No GPU needed.", "keywords": [ "pandas", "chat", "gradio" ] }	{ "slug": "hub-cron", "title": "Hub Cron", "summary": "Scheduled jobs on free CPU Spaces that write results to datasets — the missing serverless timer of the Hub.", "keywords": [ "cron", "automation", "scheduler" ] }	{ "slug": "zero-token-board", "title": "Zero Token Board", "summary": "An anonymous, no-account corkboard: \"I am building X, want a hand?\" — pins are public dataset rows anyone can query.", "keywords": [ "community", "pins", "static" ] }	{ "slug": "primordia", "title": "PRIMORDIA", "summary": "A Spore-lite evolution sandbox where the game evolves over time — literally a living dataset.", "keywords": [ "canvas", "evolution", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "echo-towers", "title": "ECHO TOWERS", "summary": "An AI dungeon where the world memoir is a public dataset — persistence you can browse.", "keywords": [ "llm", "embeddings", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "terraform-tcg", "title": "TERRAFORM TCG", "summary": "An AI-printing card battler where cards are dataset rows and balance is a data problem.", "keywords": [ "cards", "llm", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "cloister-13", "title": "CLOISTER 13", "summary": "A procedural AI murder mystery that archives every solved case to a playable dataset.", "keywords": [ "mystery", "llm", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "small-talk", "title": "SMALL TALK", "summary": "A tamagotchi with a real memory — personality grows from conversation, stored as embeddings.", "keywords": [ "embeddings", "memory", "tamagotchi" ] }	{ "slug": "galactic-gazetteer", "title": "GALACTIC GAZETTEER", "summary": "4X-lite exploration where the galaxy is a dataset and AI writes the Planet Codex.", "keywords": [ "4x", "canvas", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "shrine-of-the-oracle", "title": "SHRINE OF THE ORACLE", "summary": "An AI escape room that teaches you to query datasets — a data-literacy roguelike.", "keywords": [ "dataset", "queries", "puzzles" ] }	{ "slug": "humanizer", "title": "HUMANIZER", "summary": "The Turing-test zoo & data farm — guess human or AI, and build the corpus for free.", "keywords": [ "ai", "human", "data" ] }	{ "slug": "orbit-void", "title": "ORBIT VOID", "summary": "A procedural music & voice game — WebAudio synth + LLM titles + free TTS, a playable album as a static Space.", "keywords": [ "webaudio", "tts", "dataset" ] }	{ "slug": "assembly-line", "title": "ASSEMBLY LINE", "summary": "Prompt a robot game designer to build playable minigames; the arcade renders whatever's in the dataset.", "keywords": [ "games", "llm", "arcade" ] }

Things We Should Build

A living, open dataset of ideas worth building — each with a plan, and code to get you started.

Layout

things-we-should-build/
├── README.md             ← this file, the index & the master plan
├── ideas/
│   ├── 001-....md        ← one markdown doc per idea
│   └── ...
└── viewer/               ← static viewer mirror (broadfield/things-we-should-build-viewer)

Master Plan

Curate — one markdown doc per idea, numbered, living in ideas/.
Structure — every doc follows the same skeleton (title / why / what / plan / code / next).
View — the static Space broadfield/things-we-should-build-viewer renders the docs.
Grow — pull requests add ideas; the viewer picks them up automatically.

Why a dataset?

Ideas, plans, and code snippets are plain markdown with full git history.
Anyone can fork, PR, and merge new ideas with review.
The static viewer renders the dataset with no backend.

Index (first 30)

#	Idea	What
001	Community Knowledge Garden	A neighborhood wiki + Q&A that runs on a $35 Raspberry Pi
002	Solar LoRa Mesh	Solar-powered text-mesh for when the network goes down
003	Open Heart	Open-source BLE heart-rate monitor with your own BPM algorithm
004	Tree Murmur	A street tree sonified — 3 minutes of its day
005	Bus Stop City Nature	Adopt-a-stop rain-fed micro-gardens with QR care cards
006	Village Resilience Ops	One dashboard for fuel, water, weather, supplies
007	Weather Station Collective	A $40 home weather-station network, block by block
008	Community Assistant	A local AI that answers only from your community's own docs
009	Open School Solar Radio	Offline solar radio that turns markdown lessons into audio
010	Common Ground Map	A privacy-first map of everything shareable nearby
011	Community Fridge Watcher	A $30 ESP32 sentinel: is the shared fridge cold, closed, stocked?
012	Rain Barrel Network	Ultrasonic level sensors make every rain barrel a data point
013	Street-Corner Walkability	Crowd-measured 0–100 scores for every curb, ramp, and crossing
014	Microgrid Subscribe	Runnable solar-sharing ledger with a hash-chained, printable record
015	Bus Stop ETA Beacon	Offline solar e-ink signs fed by a GPS puck, not a schedule
016	Block-Level Air Quality Grid	A 1km² mesh of $50 PM2.5 nodes with a live heatmap
017	Tool Library Lending Ledger	A text-first checkout system for neighborhood tool libraries
018	Deaf-Owned Sound Map	Crowd-annotated quiet streets & access points, by and for Deaf communities
019	Adopt-a-Storm-Drain	Neighbor-owned drains clearing the block's flood risk together
020	Feral Fruit Atlas	Map public fruit trees with a "pluckable today" indicator
021	Community Cloth Cycle	A sanitization-rated circular library for cloth diapers & baby clothes
022	Mosquito Census	A solar TinyML counter that turns a pond into a public-health data point
023	Food Forest Planner	A 7-layer edible-ecosystem planner for vacant lots, with a 10-year plan
024	Porch Light Network	A LoRa "walking home safe" web that lights the block, no phone needed
025	Community Snow Watch	Neighbors digitize the sidewalk-clearing map so help goes where it's needed
026	Time Bank v2	A triple-entry skill/time exchange with an offline-first kiosk mode
027	Zero-Data Tonight	An SMS-only neighborhood bulletin that works on any phone
028	Makerspace Inventory Brain	A tiny edge-AI that watches the shop: what's where, low, or broken
029	Repair Café Hub	Scheduler + skill triage + parts tracking for community repair events
030	Community EV Shuttle Mesh	A neighbor-run, solar-juiced shared shuttle with a batched scheduler

Index (031–060)

#	Idea	What
031	Duplicator Station	A local self-service kiosk that mirrors any HF asset onto USBs
032	Repo Card Generator	One-click OG-image cards for any HF repo
033	Hub Radar	A live grid of RFM-hot repos, sorted by velocity
034	Model Diff	Side-by-side visual diff of two model cards/configs
035	Cost Oracle	Predicts the $ of any fine-tune/hardware choice before you spend
036	Space Health Checker	A heartbeat monitor for all your Spaces
037	Model Card Linter	A CI lint that catches missing sections in model cards
038	Tiny Paste	Ephemeral pastebin where every paste is a dataset row
039	Embedding Playground	A zero-setup sandbox for embedding models, t-SNE included
040	Zero-GPU Token Bench	Benchmarks tokenizers on CPU-only, instantly
041	Secret Vault	Encrypted env-secret generator for Spaces
042	Chat with Any Repo	RAG over any HF repo's files, no backend
043	Dataset Explorer Deck	A slide-deck UI for any dataset's rows
044	Repo of the Day	A rotating curated spotlight fed by a dataset
045	README Doctor	A linter that heals weak READMEs
046	Gradio Gallery Crawler	A visual scraper that turns Spaces into a gallery
047	Space Autopilot	An LLM that looks at failing Spaces and proposes fixes
048	Data Copilot	Natural language → dataset-server queries
049	Hub Cron	A free scheduler that runs jobs from a dataset
050	Zero Token Board	Anonymous "who's building what" corkboard for the Hub
051	PRIMORDIA	Spore-lite evolution sandbox — the game evolves over time because the species tree is a dataset
052	ECHO TOWERS	AI dungeon where the world memoir is a public dataset (persistence you can browse)
053	TERRAFORM TCG	AI-printing card battler — cards are dataset rows, balance is a data problem
054	CLOISTER 13	Procedural AI murder mystery that archives every solved case to a playable dataset
055	SMALL TALK	Tamagotchi with a real memory — personality grows from conversation, stored as embeddings
056	GALACTIC GAZETTEER	4X-lite exploration where the galaxy is a dataset and AI writes the Planet Codex
057	SHRINE OF THE ORACLE	AI escape room that teaches you to query datasets (a data-literacy roguelike)
058	HUMANIZER	Turing-test zoo — guess human or AI and build the eval corpus for free
059	ORBIT VOID	Procedural music & voice game: WebAudio synth + LLM titles + free TTS = a playable album as a static Space
060	ASSEMBLY LINE	Prompt a robot game designer to build playable minigames; the arcade renders whatever's in the dataset

Game Ideas — shared stack

All 10 game ideas (051–060) are designed for the same zero-cost recipe:

Frontend: static HF Space (sdk: static) — free hosting, no cold starts.
Database: public HF datasets read via the free, CORS-enabled datasets-server API (/rows, /filter, /search, /size, /statistics) — no API key.
AI: HuggingFace free Inference API (rate-limited) or OpenRouter :free models (e.g. meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free).
Writes: a single tiny CPU Gradio "ingest" Space appends rows from the browser (the only non-static piece, ~$0).

Shared datasets to build under the game umbrella: creature-genome (051), world-memories (052/055/056), content-pool (053/057/059/060), player-logs (all), human-vs-ai (058), game-meta (registry).

Contribute

Open a PR that adds ideas/NNN-slug.md using the skeleton, append one row to this index, done.

License

MIT — build the things, share the things.

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