WASAME
AskSubmit a creation ↗
Creative studio and collaborative workspace
The independent maker marketplace

Make something useful.
Put it into the world.

PLACE brings products, independent builders, practical experiments and industry needs into one discovery space. Find what exists, see who is making it and connect ideas to real opportunities.

Explore what’s new ↗Bring your work to PLACE
250Builder discovery candidates, not public profiles
18Industry landscapes
50Proposed Garage experiments
Explore PLACE

Find your way in

Start with a product, a capability, a problem or the people building something new.

Connected global network
Discover / Rising

Signals worth paying attention to.

Emerging tools, fast-moving categories and new capabilities gaining visibility. This is a discovery lens, not a ranking or endorsement.

Rising areas

Explore categories with active external discovery ecosystems.

Notebook and new ideas
Discover / New

Fresh thinking.
New things to explore.

Browse newly proposed concepts from the Garage and find the external catalogues where new makers and products are appearing.

Explore Garage concepts ↗

Recently recovered concepts

These are proposals from source material, not products claimed to be built or launched.

Technology hardware close-up
Discover / Breakthroughs

Ideas that change what’s possible.

A place to surface meaningful advances in tools, research and applied technology. Listings will be evidence-led, with source and maturity made clear.

Abstract artificial intelligence visualization
AI & agents

New ways to work with intelligence

Explore agent frameworks, tool use, model interfaces and practical applications.

Electronics and hardware
Edge & devices

Intelligence beyond the browser

Connected devices, embedded systems and ambient interfaces.

Scientific laboratory research
Research

Evidence into application

Research tools and methods that help ideas become useful capabilities.

Team discussing a practical challenge
Discover / Requests

What needs to be solved?

Real problems create the best starting points. This space is for buyer needs, industry challenges, build requests and open calls. No invented demand or customer briefs.

Bring a problem to the community

Tell us what is not working, what capability is missing or what you need built. Request intake is being connected to the shared WASAME / ZKUH process.

Describe a request ↗
People working together around a table
Discover / Opportunities

Where capability meets opportunity.

Find pathways to collaborate, test, distribute, fund and apply useful work. Opportunities will be distinguished from verified offers, active calls and speculative leads.

Builders collaborating in a studio
01 / BUILD

People who turn ideas into things.

Discover independent developers, designers, studios, maintainers and specialist teams across software, hardware and emerging technology.

Builder communities

Discovery categories from the sourced candidate register. Individual profiles remain unpublished until identity, attribution and permission are confirmed.

Hardware and embedded development
01 / Systems

MCP & integrations

People creating interfaces, connectors and interoperable services.

AI technology
02 / Intelligence

AI agents & frameworks

Agent builders, orchestration specialists and applied AI teams.

Digital design workspace
03 / Experience

Extensions & applications

Browser tools, scripts, web products, mobile apps and workflows.

250 discovery candidates recovered

Private working register only. Unclaimed and unverified. No personal profiles, private outreach details or implied consent are published here.

Research laboratory
02 / THINK

Research, test and question assumptions.

Explore experiments, research tools and ideas that need evidence. The Garage is a working collection of proposed concepts, not a catalogue of finished products.

Garage experiments

Search the 50 recovered concepts by name, problem or experiment type.

Product engineering electronics
03 / RUN

Tools and products made to be used.

Find software, utilities, extensions, devices and services. Product discovery should show what a thing does, who made it, its maturity and how to try it.

Product landscapes

Explore the product categories represented in current discovery sources.

Mobile app screens
Digital products

Apps & platforms

Web, mobile, desktop and SaaS products.

Browser interface design
Browser ecosystem

Extensions & utilities

Small tools that improve a workflow or unlock a capability.

Connected devices
Connected systems

Edge & connected devices

Hardware, embedded systems and ambient computing.

Garage concepts are not yet products

The 50 proposed experiments are shown separately from verified products. No build, customer validation or commercial availability is implied.

Browse Garage ↗
Reviewing documents and evidence
04 / TRUST

Trust is built on evidence and permission.

Before anything is listed or distributed, establish who created it, what rights apply, what it does and whether it is safe to share.

Document review
Provenance

Identity & attribution

Know who is submitting, who contributed and where the work came from.

Cybersecurity lock
Assessment

Security & quality

Assess submitted artefacts before distribution or use.

Agreement and collaboration
Rights

Consent & commercial terms

Record permissions, licensing and agreed participation before publishing.

ZKUH qualification pathway

Designed intake and evidence boundary. The live site is not yet connected to automated ZKUH receipts, security scanning or rights approvals. Listings and checkout remain disabled until those controls operate.

Team moving from planning to action
05 / ACT

Move from discovery to doing.

Turn a problem into a request, connect with a builder, or bring a product forward for qualification and distribution.

Start a conversation ↗
Team planning
Request

Describe a need

Explain the problem, constraints and outcome you need.

Team working together
Connect

Find capability

Bring the right people and organisations into the conversation.

Business analytics
Distribute

Prepare to publish

Qualify products and establish rights before they reach buyers.

City skyline representing industry and markets
06 / KNOW · INDUSTRIES

Understand the world you are building for.

Explore industry landscapes, sector organisations and the environments where new products and capabilities can make a difference.

Industry landscapes

18 starting sectors and 54 organisation prospects recovered from the WASAME industry research. Prospects are not partners or endorsements.

People meeting and sharing ideas
07 / IDENTIFY

Find the people and organisations behind it.

Builder discovery starts with public work and clear attribution. Public profiles only appear when the person or organisation has been verified and has agreed to publication.

People collaborating
Makers

Independent builders

Individual makers, developers, designers and maintainers.

Studio and office
Teams

Studios & organisations

Product companies, specialist teams and research groups.

Community discussion
Communities

Networks & communities

Groups that help makers share knowledge and find opportunities.

250 private discovery candidates

These records are not public Builder Passports. The public directory will grow through verified identity, attribution and explicit publication permission.

People connecting in a professional setting
08 / REACH

Take good work further.

Connect with communities, channels and distribution partners. Build reach through relevant relationships, not indiscriminate promotion.

Community collaboration
Communities

Meet relevant networks

Industry groups, maker communities and professional associations.

Workplace
Channels

Find distribution

Platforms and channels that help useful products reach their audience.

Business partnership
Partners

Build partnerships

Technology, delivery and ecosystem relationships with clear terms.

Global technology network
09 / EDGE

Find the next useful capability.

Explore external catalogues, open ecosystems and specialist tools. These sources help discovery; they are not WASAME listings or endorsements.

External discovery directories

Open a source to explore its catalogue. Provider-reported counts are not WASAME inventory.

A team sharing ideas
Connect with PLACE

Have a question, idea or introduction?

Tell us what you are looking for, what you have built or who should be part of the conversation.

Ask WASAME

Shared intake and CRM integration are being connected. The public submission form will be enabled when it can issue a durable receipt and route the request to an accountable owner.

Creative product design desk
Sell on PLACE

Your work deserves the right audience.

Bring a product, tool or service forward for assessment and distribution. We establish identity, provenance, security and rights before public listing.

Seller onboarding

Seller intake is designed around ZKUH receipts, security assessment, ownership and rights checks. Public listing, checkout and payouts remain disabled until those controls and commercial agreements are operational.