Handoff Card for side projects

Write the one page a stranger needs before inheriting your half-finished project

Problem

A developer asked: if you handed an unfinished project to a stranger tomorrow, what is the one thing they should know first? Their answer was 'the clever part is also the part that breaks.' This kind of tacit knowledge is lost during OSS handovers, freelancer transitions and team changes.

Solution

A guided handoff-card generator: a short set of structured questions (core assumption, most fragile part, how to run it locally, who the users are, pitfalls to avoid) produces a standard handoff card exportable as Markdown, embeddable in a repo README, or shareable via a private link. The value is in the prompts, not a blank editor.

Users

Indie devs maintaining OSS, engineers taking over outsourced work, team leads during transitions

MVP

Guided questionnaire (10–15 key questions); structured handoff card output; Markdown/README export; private share link; template library

Revenue

Free basic templates; team template library and private-link hosting by subscription; lifetime personal license

Why now

AI coding agents and remote work make handoffs more frequent and knowledge loss more visible; the product is extremely light and a solo dev can ship a usable version in a week