OurBigBook.com Updated 2025-10-27
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The website is the reference instance of OurBigBook Web, which is part of the OurBigBook Project, the other main part of the project are software that users can run locally to publish their content such as the OurBigBook CLI.
This page contains further information about the project's rationale, motivation and planning.
Video 1.
Intro to the OurBigBook Project
. Source.
Figure 1.
The topics feature allows you to find the best version of a subject written by other users user
. Live demo: derivative.
Figure 2.
Take a look at my GitHub, there are great projects!
OurBigBook's weird specialization towards the weird overly niche interests of its creator Ciro Santilli, notably "I want to create the perfect documentation for every atom in the universe, is undoubtedly partly to blame for the project's failure to gain even a single user outside of its own creator.
However, Ciro does also believe that innovation requires to some degree specializing weirdly in some niche direction. Success comes perhaps from both going into a novel and valuable direction, while still being anatomic enough for enough people.
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