Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight
Hello everyone 👋
This is my first Hacktoberfest as a maintainer, and I’m so excited to open the doors of Quote.Vote to contributors around the world. We’ve prepared a GitHub roadmap full of good first issues to make onboarding easy and approachable for developers of all experience levels.
Within the first day of posting in the official Hacktoberfest Discord, more than twenty contributors joined our roadmap.
The bottleneck we’re facing is code reviews. Our core developers are unavailable to provide their time as needed, which means we’re receiving great pull requests faster than we can review them.
If you’re an experienced developer who enjoys reading code, mentoring others, or improving collaboration workflows, we’d love your help reviewing PRs this month.
Timely feedback is vital for new contributors, and your support in reviewing code will directly help us maintain that rhythm and momentum.
👉 Join our community: discord.gg/3ycdHpJzE
Why Quote.Vote Exists
Quote.Vote was born from frustration with how today’s platforms warp dialogue through algorithms and ads. Many across the internet want an online space purely for respectful conversation, without anyone trying to capture attention for profit.
Growth hacking and monetization is not the priority, instead we focus on building civic infrastructure as if it were a public library. Every line of code adds up to one question: What if the internet were built for dialogue rather than sensationalism?
Hacktoberfest, for us, is about welcoming people into our civic experiment. Every contributor will be credited publicly on our site, and your name will be permanently associated with building a space that treats online conversation as a public good.
How It Works
The platform is radically simple: a quote, a response, a conversation thread. Think of it as a digital town hall where everyone can participate on equal footing.
Quote.Vote revolves around quotes as sparks for conversation rather than as weapons or out-of-context soundbites.
It’s a nonprofit project, building an open-source platform licensed under AGPL, ensuring it will always remain a public good.
No ads, no algorithms, just people, text, and respect.
Under the Hood
Quote.Vote runs on a React frontend, using a GraphQL API to communicate with a MongoDB backend.
The architecture is modular, so contributors can work independently without needing to understand the entire system on day one.
At its heart, Quote.Vote is built on the belief that dialogue itself is civic infrastructure.
We reject extractive models of platform building and treat stewardship—not ownership—as our guiding principle.
How to Contribute
If you’ve ever wanted your code to directly support democracy and dialogue, this is your chance.
Contributing to Quote.Vote means you’re shaping a piece of civic infrastructure. We welcome you, and Hacktoberfest is the perfect moment to make your first pull request.
Joining Quote.Vote during Hacktoberfest means joining a community that values humility, openness, and shared responsibility.
We’d love for you to join us this October and help shape what respectful online dialogue can look like.
👉 Quote.Vote Hacktoberfest Roadmap
