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Welcome to the Ideabro Forum: start here (and read the house rules)

Started September 24, 2026 6 replies 4.8K views

Maya Okafor

Maya OkaforStaff · EditorOP

· Editor-in-Chief

Hello, and welcome. This forum is where Ideabro readers trade ideas, prompts, builds and honest questions. The magazine is the front of the house; this is the kitchen.

Where things go

  • General for takes, news and anything that doesn't fit elsewhere
  • Show & Tell for things you've made, with what worked and what didn't
  • Prompt Craft for sharing and debugging prompts
  • Agents & Automation for workflows, stacks and permission setups
  • Help Desk when you're stuck (mark the reply that solved it)
  • Careers for hiring, job-hunting and learning paths

House rules

  1. Be specific. "It didn't work" helps nobody; "it skipped step 3 on long inputs" helps everyone.
  2. Put prompts in code blocks so people can copy them cleanly.
  3. If an AI wrote most of your post, say so. Same rule we follow in the magazine.
  4. Never paste personal data: yours, your customers' or anyone else's.
  5. Disagree with ideas, not people.
  6. Self-promotion is fine in Show & Tell when you share what you learned, not just a link.

Introduce yourself below: who you are, what you're building and one thing you'd like to learn this month.

6 replies

  1. Grace Whitfield

    Grace Whitfield

    Hello from the Saturday help table at my local library. I'm a retired librarian and I keep a notebook of every question people bring me. This month I'd like to learn how to explain, simply, why the same question gets a different answer twice.

  2. Tomás Echeverría

    Tomás Echeverría

    Hola! CS student in Bogotá. I'm building a study-buddy agent for my dorm floor that quizzes people before exams. I want to learn how to stop it giving away answers the moment someone types "just tell me".

  3. Kwame Asante

    Kwame Asante

    Kwame here. I run a two-person freight-forwarding startup in Accra and I automate anything that touches a spreadsheet. Goal this month: get our customs-document checklist from 'mostly works' to 'boringly reliable'.

  4. Aiko Tanaka

    Aiko Tanaka

    Motion designer in Osaka. I mix hand-keyed animation with generated textures. I'd like to learn how other people keep a consistent look across a long project. Rule 3 is a good one, by the way.

  5. Maya Okafor

    Maya OkaforStaff · EditorOP

    · Editor-in-Chief

    Lovely to meet you all. Tomás, try a 'no answers allowed' rule plus a ladder of hints in your agent's instructions, then bring it to Prompt Craft for a second opinion. Aiko, Priya would love to hear about your workflow for a future piece.

  6. Ruth Abernathy

    Ruth Abernathy

    Late to the party. I own a small bakery in Yorkshire and I'm learning to do rotas, menus and a grant application with an assistant. I'd like to learn how to not feel daft asking basic questions. This thread helps.

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