Just wanted to wish you all the best. Nice to see some fellow Egyptians stirring things up!
Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
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#52Just a question: If you haven't launched, how can you claim to a "most popular plan"? Seems dishonest...
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#53Just wanted to wish you all the best. Nice to see some fellow Egyptians stirring things up!
So you're the other Egyptian in the Bay Area. Thanks!
Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
#54Just a question: If you haven't launched, how can you claim to a "most popular plan"? Seems dishonest...
It is. Thanks for pointing it out.
Right now it's our guess that it will be the most popular plan based on talking to customers. I'll change this very soon. Thanks again for holding me accountable.
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#55Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it
#56"We’ve put together a new organizational design that allows anyone to join us, to gain equity share, to make decisions, and to make a living. And we’re building the technology platform to support it." That's really intriguing, congratulations! If done right this can probably have a profound impact on the way businesses are run. The best of luck to you, sir!
Just some quick feedback on some of the site copy: It appears you like to use buzzwords and superlatives quite a lot. I'm not sure if this is appealing to everyone (it certainly isn' to me). After reading your three columns "Entrepreneurs", "Workers" and "Companies+Nonprofits" I still don't know what you do and how I would use your product. All I know is that you "exponentially increase my agility" (which is most lik…
Thank you for the feedback. I totally agree. The copy is vague, and was written before our product crystallized. It needs a serious rewrite.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It sounds good, but please put this on the landing page and elaborate a bit more, as well as explain how hackers might find your service interesting. I think the HN community just launched your service for you :~).
Yep pretty much.
I posted this and went for a walk with my son.
Half-way to the park I saw that it made it to the front page.
We turned around and I'm thinking to myself "shit, I just launched"
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#58That'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.
Just don't post your 30 day commitment unless you're ready to launch in 30 minutes
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#59is this it? http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm
Er...are all your internal documents and planning, price plans etc meant to be public?
http://rm.bettermeans.com/attachments/51/Pricing_page.pdf
via
http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/48
Credit if you really plan to run things that openly otherwise you really should be taking things down ASAFP.
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#60Ehm...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.
This governance model explains who an open enterprise works. http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=312 Would love your feedback
The first thing that jumped out to me is "why should I care?". What's wrong with the "command and control" model? I don't know what the problem is which this tool is trying to solve.