GEIST Platform — v0.2.0
Say what you make · August 2026
Until now your Desk could show what you'd hatched, but not what you do. This release gives every Member a way to say it in a few taps — and gives the community a way to find each other by it.
🧩 Skills, in a few taps
Your Desk now asks you three questions, one at a time, and only where the answer is missing:
- What do you make? — Design · Illustration · Animation · Frontend · Backend · Game dev
- What do you make it with? — TypeScript · React · Python · Swift · Figma · Aseprite
- What are you open to? — Open to collab · Open to mentoring · Hiring
Each prompt sits in the gap where the answer will go, with a real example and a line about why it's worth filling in. Tap it, pick your chips, and the prompt is replaced by what you chose. There's no settings page, no edit mode, and no completion meter — an empty Desk is a fine Desk, and nothing here will nag you about it.
Nothing is required. Fill in one thing today and more whenever you feel like it.
✍️ Missing something? Type it
The list won't have everything, and that's expected. Type what's missing and it appears on your Desk immediately — no waiting, no approval queue standing between you and your own page.
A value we haven't added to the shared list yet shows up a little quieter, with a note only you can see: people can't find you by this one yet. When we add it, your chip simply becomes findable. You never have to do anything.
Type C++ or .NET and it works — you're writing a label, not a slug, and
we'll handle the rest.
🛠️ Builds — the rest of your work
Your pets already show what you've hatched. Builds is for everything else you've made: up to six things, each with a name and — if you want — a link and a line of context.
Only the name is required. Something you built offline, or never shipped, or can't link to still counts. Reorder them from the keyboard.
🔎 Finding each other
/members can now filter by skill. Pick a craft or a tool and see who's there.
The filter only appears once it can actually help. With a small community and few skills filled in, a filter returns nothing useful — so it stays hidden until enough Members have said what they do, then turns itself on. Nothing to switch on, nothing that looks broken in the meantime.
If you search for something nobody's claimed yet, you'll get an invitation rather than an empty page: be the first, one tap from your own Desk.
🔧 Under the hood
- The pet catalogue's tag vocabulary now serves two kinds of thing — pets and Members — from one governed table, rather than a second system built alongside it. Every existing pet tag is byte-for-byte unchanged.
- Skills are a proper relationship rather than a list of words, which is what lets
us fold near-duplicates (
react/reactjs) together without touching anything you wrote — your chip just moves to the better name. stack, the old free-text "tech stack" line, is retired. Skills replace it.- Decision record: ADR-112.
🌱 Not in this one
- Thumbnails on Builds — a name and a link first; pictures later, if they earn it.
- Being notified when your proposed skill is added — for now it just quietly starts working.
- Skills in search — the filter first.