Catskills 2026Ask | Offer
Catskills 2026Ask | Offer
Every sticky note from the Ask/Offer window, transcribed from 108 photographs — and still open. If you can help with an ask, add your offer and the person who made it will hear from you.
How to use this pageClick on a face to see their ASK
| When | Type | For | From | Content | Relay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing submitted yet. | |||||
The relay runs hourly: it emails the asker, copies HATCH, sends the offerer a receipt, and appends a row to the Google Sheet. Rows marked queued have not gone out yet.
Offers received per ask, by theme. Above 1.0 the room had more to give than was asked of it — below 1.0, people went home still looking.
Music, speaking platforms and health are the thin ends — and the pattern is specific. Thirteen musicians asked, and nearly all asked for the same missing person: a producer, promoter, agent or booker.
These notes were photographed away from the ask they answered, or were signed but not addressed. The content is still good — worth a human eye.
Every sticky note from the Catskills Ask/Offer window, transcribed and still live: 141 asks from 98 people, 207 offers, and 55 asks nobody has answered yet. You can search it, filter it, and make an offer that reaches the person directly.
Click a face. The grid at the top holds all 96 people. Clicking one filters the wall to their asks and opens them, so you get the answer in a single tap. A gold ring means that person still has an ask nobody has answered. The gold ↑ All faces button in the toolbar brings you back to the grid from anywhere on the page.
Search. The box looks inside everything at once — names, the asks, the offers, and the people who made them. Searching documentary finds the filmmakers; searching a name finds both their asks and anything they offered someone else.
Filter by topic. Twenty pills across the top, biggest first: Introductions (55), Funding (35), Mentorship (26). Pick more than one and it narrows to asks carrying all of them, so Funding + Music is the intersection, not the sum. The row scrolls sideways — the gold arrows move it, and the twenty dots beneath show which topics are currently in view.
Sort and narrow. The dropdown defaults to A–Z by name. It also does most offers first, fewest first, and wall order (the sequence the notes were photographed in). Tick Unanswered only to see just the 55 open asks. Open all and Close all expand or collapse everything at once.
Whatever is filtering shows as a row of chips under the toolbar — drop any one, or Clear all to start over.
Cards start closed so you can scan 141 of them quickly. Closed, you see the person, their role, their topic tags, how many offers they drew, and a one-line headline of what they want — $2M for a 110-city Indian classical tour, Someone to crack my back. Click anywhere on the card, or the gold arrow, to open it.
Open, there are three layers:
| What you see | What it is |
|---|---|
| The line at the top | A clean restatement, in the asker's own voice |
| The grey block marked ASK | The sticky note exactly as written |
| Who stepped forward | Every offer posted on it, with who made it |
The grey block is untouched wording. Notes written in block capitals were converted to mixed case so they are readable, and [?] marks a word the photograph could not resolve. Nothing else was changed.
Back to the top at the foot of each open card returns you to the face grid, ready for the next person.
Two buttons on every open card. Make an offer posts a response to that ask. Message [name] writes to the person about anything else.
What happens when you send:
No contact details appear anywhere on this page. People wrote phone numbers and email addresses on their notes; those were stripped before publishing. The relay is how you reach someone — which means the wall can be shared without handing out anyone's private information.
The one thing worth knowing: an offer of a five-minute introduction counts. Looking at the 207 already posted, the ones that landed were mostly I know someone rather than I will solve this for you.
Three ways in, depending on why you opened the page.
Tick Unanswered only and sort by fewest offers first. You are now looking at the 55 asks the room did not reach — the highest-value thing on the page, and the part that goes stale fastest. An ask answered five weeks after the summit reads as care; five months after, it reads as an audit.
Pick the topic pill that matches your own capability and read only those. If you know literary agents, open Books & Publishing and you will find the four people looking for exactly that. This is faster than browsing and it produces better offers, because you are matching from strength rather than scanning for something to do.
Click their face. Their asks open immediately.
What not to do: read A to Z looking for inspiration. 141 asks is more than anyone absorbs in one sitting, and the alphabet carries no signal about where you would be useful.
Four numbers sit above the grid: 141 asks, 98 people, 207 offers, 55 still unanswered. That last one is the live figure — it drops as offers come in.
Heatmap of the room further down shows offers received per ask, by theme. Above 1.0 the room had more to give than was asked of it; below 1.0 people went home still looking. Music, speaking platforms and health are the thin ends. Thirteen musicians asked, and nearly all wanted the same missing person: a producer, promoter, agent or booker. Click any theme label to filter the wall to it.
Offers we couldn't pin to an ask collects 47 notes that were photographed away from the ask they answered, or signed but not addressed. The content is good — worth a human eye.
Two things still need attention:
Everything else — 94 of 98 people — is deliverable.