Stone Soup
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A project or solution that starts with almost nothing and improves because many people each contribute something useful. In engineering slang, stone soup often describes pragmatic shared progress without grand upfront ownership.
In plain English: A shared effort where many small contributions gradually create something valuable.
Example: "The internal developer portal was stone soup for a while, with one team adding auth, another adding docs, and a third finally making search usable."