66IDEAS - Less. But better.

Great software starts with
a great specification.

66IDEAS publishes open-source software specifications - complete, buildable definitions of functionality, UX, and architecture - together with working reference implementations that prove each one.

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Why specifications

In the age of AI, everybody can build.
Few know what to build.

Everybody can ask an agent to build software today. What is scarce is the idea - and the thought-through design behind truly great products. That is what you find here: the specification is the product; the code is the proof.

The specification

Functionality, UX, and architecture - complete enough that a human team or an AI agent can build the product from it.

The reference implementations

Working software built from the spec - on whatever stack proves the point. Specs without proof are wishes.

Build it your way. Take a specification and implement it against your own technology stack - Google Firebase, SAP BTP, Microsoft Azure, or anything else. Or skip the build and run a reference implementation as-is. Everything is MIT-licensed and free.

MIT-LICENSED SELF-HOSTABLE AI-AGENT-READY
The products

Numbered ideas, each one shipped.

Every product is a pair: the specification, and the reference implementations built from it. The number in the name is the idea's number.

More ideas are queued. Each one ships when it is finished, not before.

Three ways in
01

Run it

Deploy or install a reference implementation. Done.

02

Build it

Hand the specification to your team - or your AI agent - and implement it on the stack you already trust.

03

Shape it

Issues are welcome everywhere; pull requests are welcome on the specifications. The reference implementations follow the specs. No CLA, no paperwork.

Notes from the workbench.

Design decisions, spec deep-dives, and what building with AI agents actually looks like.

30 Aug 2026

Why the spec is the product

What changes when implementation stops being the scarce resource.

30 Aug 2026

My third CRM

Three CRM systems, two decades - the story behind the name.

30 Aug 2026

Writing specs for AI agents

Five lessons on what a spec needs so an agent can build from it.

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