How ideas become real, take shape, and move through the system.

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Anyone can have an idea. A project takes form when shared, structured, and in motion.

Here, projects live inside the community, but can grow far beyond it.

🪄 What Counts as a Project?

A project inside Next Future is more than a creative spark. It’s a shared direction. A group of people aligned around something they want to build, explore, or test—together.

It can be a product, a platform, a short-term release, a long-term company, or something that doesn’t exist yet in common formats.

We’re not picky about format. We care about intention.

🛰️ How Projects Begin

There’s no single way a project starts inside the community. But in general, it follows one of a few patterns:

A solo creator begins sharing early-stage work in the [Creatives] category.

This is open to everyone—and often where ideas first take shape.
That same person might publicly express the desire to start something bigger.

From there, contact is made, and we evaluate together whether they’re ready to lead something in a public way. (See 3.2 — Social Interaction for more on how public sharing works here.)
Others start with a TeamUp, forming a group around an idea and then requesting a dedicated project space.

Once there's clarity and a bit of structure, we open a private or public category for the project—based on what's best for the stage it's in.

From there, it grows naturally.