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Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Yep, it's all open. Not just for people to see, but for people to join us and make it better.

Wow. I'm not sure whether that's brilliant or insane but I wish you the best and will watch with interest.

Can you elaborate? what disadvantages do you see in running this way?

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Thanks. Just fixed it.

Nice! Other comments: -As someone else posted on the site, attempts to create a new workstream meet with a 403/not authorized despite being logged in. -It may just be a placeholder, but the "Browse all enterprises" and "Browse all workstreams" seems to be an unwieldly way to discover new enterprises/workstreams, since after the launch is well underway, that list will explode in volume. The search box is nice to find…

- 403 is fixed. Yikes - Totally agree, it's a placeholder for now. We'll need a much better find and browse functionality.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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As long as "open democratic" doesn't mean anti free-market (as it seems to in the political world), great job on the quick launch :)

Nope. Not anti free-market. Just pro transparency, and meritocracy.

Great, merit based compensation could be a powerful way to run a company. I sincerely agree with your belief that purpose-driven enterprises are more successful, especially when that purpose is to produce a fantastic product.

I read a bit of your "open enterprise manifesto" (which is way too long to read in my opinion, but that may not be your goal), and found conflict with this statement:

"We made our government democratic, and our corporations everything but..."

Actually, we made our government a Republic, with a set of laws and inalienable rights. The process for changing those laws was made democratic, but the system was created as a Republic to protect the rights of individuals from the arbitrary force of government.

I don't understand why so many people focus on the "greed" and "corruption" inherent in "top-down" corporations, but ignore the greed and corruption inherent in centralized government. Those who operate the government are no different than those who operate corporations. They're all human.

If you can't trust corporations, then you DEFINITELY can't trust government, because they are all run by humans of the same nature.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Yes please. Do you speak rails?

Is the code out there somewhere? Do you want help?

The code is in a private github repo I would LOVE help.

If you're willing to please check this out, and shoot me an email

http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=253

We're an open enterprise, so everyone who asks, and agrees to our governance model can join.

All dev worked is tracked here: http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/platform/

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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As long as "open democratic" doesn't mean anti free-market (as it seems to in the political world), great job on the quick launch :)

Nope. Not anti free-market. Just pro transparency, and meritocracy.

And, I should add, the difference between corporations and government is that corporations are not able to apply arbitrary force (rightfully) while the government can.

Therefore government actions are much more dangerous that corporate actions, and they are far less often held accountable for the results of their actions.

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