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disruptthelaw

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About disruptthelaw

CONTINUED FROM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887408

...Lawyers can self-publish legal opinions, templates, checklists etc. They are prompted to tag the content by jurisdiction, category etc and to cite related case law and legislation. We organise the legal info in ways that make it really useful for readers, with advanced filtering, search, recommendations, and cross referencing. We become the Google for legal info.

The majority of content is free to consume and we monetize by granting paid publishers extra prominence, reporting, and lead gen tools. But we can then also add an editorial layer to curate, procure, and review selected content. This editorial layer creates certain content that is more authoritative and credible. You can charge for this layer of content which allows you capture market share from the entrenched legal publishers.

Path to market? we start by tackling a narrow horizontal, ie one area of law (fundamentals of doing business in various countries) as a starting point.

Its a manual process of reaching out to content producers and law firms and gradually getting them to load content. For a year or 2 you struggle but at some point you have enough good content to attract high volume of readers organically and then content producers naturally want to load content.

ABOUT ME

In my late thirties. I'm using a throwaway account so that my company does not find out. But I will disclose all info in full in private.

I'm deeply embedded in this space and I've seen all of the above use cases first hand. After qualifying as a lawyer I founded a legal info site that caters for use cases a, b and c (for a certain country, not global). This website attracts close to 100k unique readers a month a hundreds of high quality leads for the lawyers that write on the website (use case C)

I've since sold that platform and now work at large multinational legal publisher. Unfortunately my company is too large and dysfunctional to really deliver on the full capability of this product. They also do not understand how the 4 use-cases above fit together and they dont have an efficient model to pull this strands together and deliver on them in a sustainable way. My frustration leads me to wanting to go independent.

I'm a generalist and very resourceful. I know quite a bit about tech, SEO, UX, product management principles, and the legal market.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

I need a team to help build the product and I need finance. So it could mean taking on a CTO, or it could be someone with access to seed finance and who can help me hire a dev lead, or a combination thereof.

In order to leave my job and devote myself full time I need a starting salary of around 70k$ per year.

Ideally I would like cofounders who understand how to get finance and who can build the right kind of network. I primarily want to focus on the product. growth and revenue model as much as reasonably possible.

Ideally my cofounders are well suited for this space and are in it for the long haul.

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    When a webpage loads that looks like it was made in the 90’s, no ads, and is too wide for mobile so I have to drag from side to side, I know the content is gonna be legit.

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    Yes. While these claims might be hyperbolic and simplistic, I don’t think they’re way off the mark. The above issue, whilst relevant and worth factoring, doesn’t disprove this clai…

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    Comment #34232616

    Publish posts on your blog, share links to those posts on social media.

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    Have you observed any other path for new want-to-be developers other than boot camps that tends to yield better outcomes ?

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    Tab suspender is your friend

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    And easy linking and bi-directional linking. Once you experience these two features it’s very hard to imagine notes without it. That’s the main reason I couldn’t go with the author…

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    Also, many of those debating and getting their toes wet in crypto are not necessarily predicting it will work, they’re just hedging their bets in case it does. For example I’ve got…

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    I’m genuinely agnostic on your question, either of those possibilities strike me as roughly equally plausible.

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    I haven’t seen the terms of the deal but it presume that most customers on the monthly retainer will not submit a task every day, maybe on average every 4 or 5 business days. That …

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    I took my gap year in israel with a religious Jewish friends. We were slight stoners back then and on sabbath in order for him to get high I’d have to light a bong in a cupboard an…

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    Comment #27772074

    The solution to that is for savvy consumers like us to band together and form a non governmental ratings agency that gives a stamp of approval to products that meet a repair standa…

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    Comment #27771946

    I’m with you comrade https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762177 I too got downvoted

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    Comment #27762460

    Yeah because such a company would make less profit because people wouldn’t have to replace their products as often. But having a private industry body ensures that company that doe…

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    Comment #27762310

    Why does it have to be imposed and enforced. If you think about it, this law reduces profit for firms which will get pushed back to consumers in the form of price. Why not let thos…

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    Comment #27762177

    I like fixing things rather than discarding so I’m in favor of the underlying principle. But I’d prefer a free-market solution rather than a regulatory one. I’d rather someone crea…

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    My bad please get in touch at info@getsporty.co.za (This is my secondary mail as I don’t want to share my personal one on public thread)

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    Comment #27749980

    Remote (I’m in Johannesburg, South Africa) I'm looking for a technical co-founder to join me disrupting the legal research and publishing industry. I am a lawyer now working as a s…

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    It’s always a trade off and there’s no right answer for everyone. I spent my twenties roughly as you advise, and i definitely grew and learned from it. But some of my counterparts …

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    What is your workflow to process all the emails to yourself?