OpenMyLife · 001 sample repo

Treat yourself as
an open-source project.

Make your thinking, experience, work, and story public, versioned, searchable, and citable — using code and media, the two permissionless levers, so every output compounds into influence.

Not "build the product, then market it" — the work IS the marketing.

Start open-sourcing yourself See the 001 sample

At least one commit a week — never break the streak.

001 sample repo See how one person open-sources himself muamu/openmylife Open on GitHub Template repo Use this template to get your own openmylife/openmylife Open on GitHub Awesome list See who else is open-sourcing themselves openmylife/awesome-openlife Open on GitHub

GitHub slow? Use the Gitee mirror

Picks · Living log

One good read a day — only if it's worth it.

Public output from the 001 sample repo. One daily, one weekly; quality over quantity. The linked write-ups are in Chinese; the summaries here are in English.

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Why

Most of what you think, learn, and make sits in phone corners, local drives, and company wikis. You can't find it. No one else can see it.

Unseen is as good as nonexistent.

Time and energy are your scarcest capital. Spend them on things that can be seen and reused — that's how they compound like savings.

How to join

Two paths, both start with one small step.

You don't need a finished product or a line of code. Each step below asks for one small thing — start with the easiest.

For everyone · no code

4 steps

All you need is a phone and an AI assistant (Doubao, Yuanbao, DeepSeek, Claude — any of them).

  1. Copy one line to your AI assistant:
    Read https://openmylife.xyz/llms.txt and help me open-source myself
  2. Talk for a few minutes about the ideas, experience, or work you want to make public. It turns the conversation into a dated note.
  3. It creates an archive that belongs to you and generates a small personal page.
  4. Share the page on social media — that's it. You're in.
One conversation a week is one update. It gets thicker over time — that's your compounding.

For AI agent users

3 steps

You know git, you have GitHub, and you use AI every day — commit is familiar; you just never used it to record yourself.

  1. Give this skill pack to your agent (Claude / Cursor / Trae / Codex / any capable assistant).
  2. It reads openmylife.xyz/llms.txt, pulls the openmylife template (use the Gitee mirror if GitHub is slow), and asks you a few questions.
  3. It names and commits your first commit, then generates your personal page and AI context.
One commit a week. Publish before perfect. The first commit can be ugly — but it needs a history.

Five steps

Start with the lowest step. Each next one is only a little harder.

There is no "write a masterpiece" step. Start with one sentence; the rest can come later.

Taking the first step is already enough.

Boundaries

Not everything should be public.

Every piece passes three gates — share ideas and work, not your life.

public

Publish directly: notes, reviews, methods, product source.

link-only

Visible but not promoted: early drafts, unfinished ideas.

never

Never store: other people's privacy, addresses, finances, offers in negotiation, trading details — put them in .gitignore.

Collection · awesome-openlife

One person sharing is a diary; many people sharing become a network.

Everyone who open-sources themselves gets an entry: who / what / since when / where to find them.

Browse the list Add yourself
For AI agents
This site ships llms.txt — any AI agent can read how to help you open-source yourself.
GET /llms.txt GET /skill/SKILL.md