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by sharemywin 3696 days ago
some questions I can think of in the space:

1. How are decision made? Can you appeal?

2. Is it a seniority based system or a lowest bid type system? or both?

3. How are the day to day things taken care of? customer support, etc. paid out?

4. Legal framework? International laws?

5. can shares be bought and sold?

6. focus and long term goals?

btw, my contact info is in my profile if any one is interested in moving forward.

2 comments

Good questions. I cannot answer 2-4 yet. As for the (1) I think it should be a collective decision making (voting) where weight of your vote depends on the number of shares you have. And why not to create a form of arbitrage so it is possible for contributors to appeal if there is a need to. As for the selling and buying shares (5), I think it is a good idea. But I'm dead sure it complicates everything from the legal point of view even more. And thus it's not a priority number one. And in the last part, focus and long term goals from whose point of view do you mean exactly?

P.S.: I'll absolutely get in touch with you.

Also, I think assembly failed for a couple of reasons. 1. not enough respect for the marketing side of things. 2. free labor only gets you so far need actual cash to be contributed. 3. equity plan needs laid out early so people don't feel like equity is going to be hoarded. 4. 3. needs to be more like a holacracy and a benefits corporation.
Exactly my thoughts. BTW assembly was an intermediary that provided you a platform and handled some stuff in exchange for 10% of projects' revenue. Do you think this platform should have such a role? Can it be just an agent. So, there are many intermediary companies that charge whatever % they want for the benefits and services they find reasonable and many projects. Projects choose their intermediaries and intermediaries choose projects. There is a competition in these groups. The platform gets % of intermediary's %. What do you think?