Askbetter.dev – a simple guide to asking better technical questions

The goal isn’t to stop people asking questions, but to make it easier to ask in a way that’s quicker for others to help with, especially when they’re in the middle of something.

It’s also meant to be lightweight enough that you can just link it (or even set it as a Teams/Slack status) as a gentle nudge rather than having to explain it repeatedly.

I’ve also been thinking about encouraging AI as a first pass / rubber duck, but not sure if that’s the right balance.

Would really appreciate feedback. Especially on tone and what actually works well in real teams.

useful, especially for async teams

one thing though: a lot of “bad questions” come from systems giving incomplete signals

200 OK no errors in logs

but the actual failure happens after the request (timing, retries, downstream)

so people aren’t asking poorly they’re asking from incomplete signals