Introducing dir, an open directory and standing request for CKB-native ideas

Hey everyone,

New builders keep asking the same thing: what should I build on CKB. Good answers exist, but they are scattered across forum threads, Discord, and people’s heads. dir collects them in one place.

dir is an open directory of CKB-native project ideas. Each idea carries a spec, the CKB properties it uses, a difficulty, and concrete acceptance criteria that define what “shipped” means. It ships with 30 seed ideas across 9 categories (developer tooling, Spore/DOB, RGB++, Fiber, OTX, AI agents, identity, storage, and social). Ideas are CC0, and any project you build from one is yours.

Two ways to use it:

  • You want something built. Open a PR with the idea: the problem, why it fits CKB, and what a finished version has to do. It enters the catalog and someone can pick it up. Think of this as a standing request for ideas and startups, not a one-off thread.

  • You want to build. Browse the catalog, pick an idea, and ship it. Good-first ideas are tagged for newcomers.

Where it is going: wishes, public commitments, stakes, and bounties become real attestations and Cells, so dir dogfoods the primitives it lists. That on-chain layer goes to testnet next. For now the catalog, the spec, and the site are live.

Site: https://dir-nine.vercel.app

Repo: GitHub - truthixify/dir: An open directory of CKB-native project ideas where builders publicly commit, build, and ship — on-chain. · GitHub

Adding an idea is a pull request, validated by CI against a schema. If you have a gap worth building, open one.

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This is great! very inspiring

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Hello, I’m working on VibeQuest is an AI gamified learning workbench for CKB/Fiber. It turns a learner’s goal into AI-generated lessons, checkpoint questions, lesson-based code quests, verifier files, denial tests, and boss challenges so people do not just vibe-code CKB apps, they understand the Cell model, scripts, witnesses, Fiber payment proofs, and replay risks.

Would VibeQuest fit dir as a CKB-native idea under AI/onboarding/education? My aim is to use our upcoming beta for validation from the CKB ecosystem: builders can test the learning loop, suggest better acceptance criteria, and help decide which CKB/Fiber concepts should become quests first.

Links:
Live MVP: https://vibequest-web.vercel.app
Frontend repo: https://github.com/buidlLabs3/vibequest-web
Backend repo: https://github.com/buidlLabs3/vibequest-core
Demo: https://github.com/buidlLabs3/vibequest-web/blob/main/demo.webm

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Yes, it would!

Please create a PR to add it to the directory