"Let me know how I can help" – a proposal to HN
We have build <a href="http://DoerHub.com" rel="nofollow">http://DoerHub.com</a> to tackle this head on. You post whatever projects you are working on (hackers, researchers, scientists,  are are 50%+ of the community, but there are also marketers, subject matter experts, designers, etc). Examples:<p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub</a> (dogfooding)<p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/robopaint" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/robopaint</a><p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/surgery-boards-app" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/surgery-boards-app</a><p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/coincashcard" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/coincashcard</a><p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/synaptor" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/synaptor</a><p><a href="http://www.doerhub.com/for/securityfirst" rel="nofollow">http://www.doerhub.com/for/securityfirst</a><p>Whoever sees your project can help in little or big ways, from joining the team to becoming an advisor or a beta user. Teams are soon getting public/private collaboration tools inside projects as well.<p>At the same time your profile shows what areas you are great at or looking for help in/learning in, example:
<a href="http://doerhubassets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/badge-67f14a8ee1fbf57976ffd7472fdc857a.png" rel="nofollow">http://doerhubassets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/badge-67f14a8ee...</a><p>So you can really easily see people you have a lot in common with and share complementary skills with. An app with real-time chat and serendipity matching is in the works as well. It is entirely free, we haven't made a cent with it but some amazing projects are now in beta because of our work and people who would have never ever met otherwise (a hacker and a surgeon for example) are now doing projects together. There are growing past 600+  doers already and 80+ projects as of yesterday. You are welcome to join.<p>We don't spread it randomly. Instead we mention it only to communities of doers we respect and would want to work with and I hope you will do the same if you join in.