Ok, here it is:
http://rm.bettermeans.com
Guess I didn't need 30 days! This is totally overwhelming. Thank you everyone. Please be generous with your feedback.
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#32Hey BetterMeans... Alain here. I sure hope you will launch soon. You still owe me coffee :-) To everyone: Shereef is cooking something great. Make sure he ships in 30 days!
Hey Alain! Thanks for the kind words, and for all your support in this process. Here we go :)
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#33You're on the frontpage of HN, where is your landing page that explains what your app is about and captures our e-mail adresses? You don't have long before you lose your frontpage position!
We don't yet have a landing page. Bettermeans is an open democratic project management tool. It allows people to work together on a project with a meritocratic governance as opposed to command and control.
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#34Interesting. I think you need something that succinctly explains exactly what bettermeans is and why its something a company would want to use. It took me awhile to get a feel for what the product really does, and how.
agreed!
"If a traditional company was a network architecture, it would be client-server.
We’re building a platform for peer-to-peer companies that are more agile, resilient, and innovative."
You say an awful lot of what you do but no where could I find the "HOW" and I, personally, hate high-level BS talk.
Get to the point and put verbs in your sentences that say how you do these things.
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#35Ehm...what is it and what do I use it for? I just see posts from people, something called workstreams and reading the text in the description on the right just makes me want to shoot myself out of boredom. Oh...and how the heck do I get credits because I see some people are already loaded.
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#36Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
#37This sounds and looks exactly like a more modern version of a worker cooperative (I am a member in a worker co-op). The laws around co-ops tend to be very 19th century but this is really what they are all about -- are you plugged in to the worker co-op community? There would be many interested users, potential grants and investment, etc.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ummm. It seems like I just inadvertently launched!
That's the spirit. :-) You just launched. Congratulations!
Thanks.
The problem is I don't have any supporting text, and folks are really confused about what we're doing!
Maybe there is such a thing as too early of a launch.
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#40That's awesome man, good luck and have fun! I hope to be taking similar steps soon (hell, maybe I'll make the same 30 day commitment, seems like it would be helpful!), and coming across little bits of motivation like this keep me and many other thinkers in motion.