I built a site where your first open source contribution is adding yourself to it

Description and use

FREE-OPEN lets first‑time contributors add themselves via a single JSON entry, making their contribution visible on the live site.

Many people never make their first pull request because the repo they pick has no visible reward for contributing.

The site demonstrates that a minimal, visible contribution loop can encourage first‑time pull requests, with 19 forks already recorded.

Fork the FREE-OPEN repo
Clone the fork locally
Run npm install
Create a new branch
Edit src/data/contributors.json to add a new object with name, github, linkedin, and twitter
Run npm run dev and verify the card appears at /contributors
Commit the change
Push the branch
Open a pull request
Merge the pull request
View the live site to see the new contributor card

You fork it, add yourself to one JSON file, and open a pull request. When it is merged, your card appears on the contributors page of the live site.

Adding one object to one file means you cannot really break anything, and if two people do it at the same time the conflict is a one-line fix.