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Say I have an idea about a piece of software I want to develop, but it's just a basic idea, and I can't do it by myself. I just have a basic idea of something I want to create.

QUESTION: Is there a webapp in which I can submit my idea for a project, and then have people contribute to it if said project is worth the amount of time to develop it?

(I also don't know where else to ask this question but here. It seems more on-topic to ask it here rather than on Programmers, StackOverflow, or any other StackExchange site I know about.)

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    Are you asking about collaborating on the definition, the design, or the implementation phase of the software project? – Basil Bourque Jul 24 '15 at 6:31
  • @BasilBourque all three would be best. – DDPWNAGE Jul 24 '15 at 7:25
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    Collaborating on implementation is already handled nowadays fairly well by distributed source control systems, usually Mercurial repositories such as BitBucket.com, or Git repositories like GitHub.com. – Basil Bourque Jul 24 '15 at 7:39
  • @BasilBourque I knew about GitHub. I also wanted to talk with people about the original idea itself and meet people who wanted to create this idea. – DDPWNAGE Jul 24 '15 at 7:41
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If you at least know what the software should do, then http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com is a good place to submit the idea, if worded correctly it will become the top Google hit for people looking for the same thing, attracting upvotes and becoming a place to share info about emerging solutions.

If your idea is not well-formed yet, I would suggest https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/ which is more tolerant for half-baked ideas. It tends to generate more discussion than solutions, and quality is not as good as Software Recommendations, though. Typical question

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You could create a wiki instance dedicated to your project. There is some online free mediawiki farm for example. Cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services

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