About
The world's to-do list, open to everyone.
fixtheworld.io is a public list of problems worth solving — and of the people who've raised a hand to solve them. Cancer. Littering. Phone addiction. Loneliness. The things you can't stop thinking about, written down where the people who can fix them will see them.
Why this exists
For most of history, the hard part of fixing something wasn't knowing it was broken. It was finding the people with the time, the skills and the money to do anything about it. That is changing fast. AI can now do work that used to take a whole team, and a builder anywhere can ship something real in a weekend.
What's still missing is a shared list. Somewhere to write down what's broken, agree on what matters most, and find the others who are already working on it. That is the whole idea: a to-do list for the world, kept in public, that anyone can add to and anyone can pick from.
It was started by Tiago Pita, who spends his days running an online food business and kept noticing the same thing: the problems people complain about most are rarely the ones anyone is organised around. This is an attempt to change the order of operations — problems first, then people, then solutions.
How it works
1.Post what's broken
A headline, a category and a 280-character “why it matters”. While you type, similar issues surface so votes don't split across five versions of the same problem.
2.Vote what matters
One vote per person per issue, and you can take it back. The feed blends votes with recency, so a new problem can surface without burying the big ones.
3.Say “I'll fix this”
The heart of it. Raise your hand and you're listed as a fixer on that issue, badged in its threads, and easy for the other fixers to find.
4.Present a solution
An app, a project, an organisation, research, a policy, or just an idea. Solutions carry a status — proposed, building, live — and get voted on like issues do.
Who it's for
Anyone who has ever thought “someone should fix that.” Teachers, nurses, developers, designers, researchers, parents, people who run a council or a corner shop. You don't have to be the fixer to be useful here — the person who describes a problem clearly, with numbers and a place, has done half the work.
And for the fixers: this is where you find out that the problem you're quietly working on has 400 people behind it, three of whom have the skills you're missing.
What it isn't
- Not a petition site. Votes rank the list; they don't demand anything from anyone.
- Not a charity or a fund. No money changes hands here. Solutions link out to wherever they live.
- Not finished. It's early. Things change weekly, and the best ideas for the site itself tend to arrive as issues on the site itself.
No account wall
You can vote, fix, comment and post the moment you arrive. The first time you act you get a friendly guest name — something like “Curious Otter” — and a session on this device. When you want to keep it, save your account with a passkey or an email link. There are no passwords, ever.
Got something that needs fixing?
Say it like a headline. Sixty seconds, no account needed.
Questions or ideas about the site itself? hello@fixtheworld.io. House rules are in the guidelines; what we store is in the privacy page.