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This might already exist, but a user management as a service provider focused on security. I'm afraid that if I do a website and it is breached, all the users would suffer. Therefore I'd rather someone made a service that kept all sensitive user info, like email and password, separate from my webapp. The only way to access it would be via api over a unique user ID. Then I could worry about doing the website instead o…
It would be great if there was a calculator which would allow you to experiment with different liquidity outcomes given your existing/proposed stock options.
For example, you would be asked to enter the total number of outstanding shares, the number of shares you have now, the number of shares you are entitled to, your vesting schedule, if you have any acceleration upon change of control or other scenarios and if so how much, whether you have preferred vs common shares, liquidation preferences (if any), etc.
Once you enter all of the information that you have, the calculator can estimate how much you stand to make in certain scenarios. You could answer "How much does the company need to be bought for in order for my options to be worth $X?" or "If the company sold for $Y amount, how much would my options be worth?".
If certain pieces of information were not entered into the calculator, then it could show error messages and link to additional resources explaining why that particular number is so important.
I realize that the calculator would likely not be exact because of missing information and the complexities of each particular company's structure. However, I think in many cases it could be surprisingly accurate. The most important thing is that it be used as a tool to introduce important concepts and terms which new startup employees should research and understand.
Open source US tax filing application. Basically TurboTax but free.
Why can't the government just send me a bill? If they're able to detect that I've slighted them, they sure as hell have a reasonable idea of what I owe.
A crowd-funding charity website that collects monthly very tiny micro-payment (as little as .10 cents) from users for charity. This way many users would sign up, worry free, as .10 cents a month is extremely affordable and can add up to a lot of money with scale.
Open web based CAD application. I think the problem with previous attempts at this focuses on accomplishing computation on the client side. I believe it is possible to set up a framework where the client passes CAD messages to the server and the server returns the appropriate WebGL object for the client to render. I've been playing with this idea for a while but I've been struggling on how to execute such a project.…
I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…
I've explored similar ideas in the past. One possibility I explored was breaking down claims like 'Guantanamo Bay should close' into moral claims plus factual claims, eg 'Guantanamo Bay practices torture' plus 'torture is wrong'. This could be further broken down until you had a set of moral axioms and a set of basic pieces of factual evidence, and a set of syllogisms linking them together. Different people would ind…
Showing people exactly where they disagree would be a huge advancement. I think there are plenty of people who care about the truth and also care to have a consistent worldview in terms of morality.
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I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to allow for various branching of thought. That is, I'm not looking for a democracy that rewards majoritarian thought and punishes less popular but logically consistent argumentation. As an end pr…
(inserts tongue firmly in cheek) I think there would be more money for a site that helps you argue your position from available data, the truth be damned. I'm thinking "How to Lie With Statistics"[1] as a service - tell it you want to, say, show that guns are becoming safer, or that higher taxation causes obesity, and it will produce a nicely manipulated graph containing only real figures from readily available datas…
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In order for such a project to make sense, one must ask himself if he believes that there is one and universal truth that stands above human and physical laws. If there is such a thing, then there is a point in pursuing the truth, because truth gives the correct conclusions . If not, then there's no meaning in pursuing something that is relative .
Of course there is one truth. 1+1=2, Global warming either is or isn't real, gun control either does or doesn't reduce homicide rates, etc. Aumann's Agreement Theorem suggests that two rational people can not disagree on a subject if they both fully understand all the evidence and arguments. All disagreements stem from some combination of misunderstanding, ignorance, or irrationality.