I got tired of digging through SEO spam, fragmented forums, and bloated manuals just to find out if a specific product or tool can do what I need, or if it can be modified in a certain way to make it work.

So, I built canido.app.

It is a clean, crowd-sourced wiki meant to give direct “Yes/No” verdicts, workarounds, and mod potential for everyday tech, DIY, hardware, and lifestyle questions.

A couple of features I focused on:

Fact-Checked: Community submissions require evidence and go through a mod queue before going live to keep the data clean.

Privacy-First: You can create a 100% anonymous account number to contribute. No email or social login is required.

Community Hub: Forums are hosted over at nightash.net.

The directory is empty right now, and I am looking for two things:

Feedback and Early Content: Give it a spin. If you have niche knowledge on a specific product capability, workaround, or hardware mod, please suggest a topic.

Moderators: I want to keep the quality high from day one. If you like the concept and want to help review incoming community submissions, let me know.

Drop any thoughts or questions below.

  • Vicinus@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    Sounds like an interesting and useful concept.

    You should probably provide a clickable link for those on mobile.

    Was the wiki built with AI?

    • parallelminds@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      9 days ago

      No, I didn’t use AI to help me build the webapp. canido.app is the link, it should work for mobile views too.

      • Vicinus@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        To make a link use [Text] (https://link/) with no space.

        Ex. Your site

        Edit: I said that with full confidence and now it doesn’t link properly.

        Edit 2: huh, looks like you need the “https://” to link out of the site. Link works now.