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Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by nikivi »

I am working on Learn Anything. It’s an open source website with the goal of providing most efficient learning paths. A kind of Netflix for learning.

If humanity really solves personalized learning by crafting learning paths based on all of Internet’s resources, user’s current knowledge and learning preference, I believe something akin to singularity may be reached. So I am trying to build the website that tries to reach this goal in an open source way so anyone can help.

Website https://learn-anything.xyz Code: https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by aldoushuxley001 »

simon_acca wrote: post #6

Your documents and notes are a reflection of your knowledge and experience. We believe the hard work you put into them should benefit you in the long term. This is why we are working on the most intuitive and flexible platform for you to capture, share and navigate your thoughts.

Is your platform up yet? Would love to give a try

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by quelsolaar »

My mission is to make it possible for the users take back control of the internet, and make technology work for people (http://unravel.org). The internet has gone from being a technology that liberates information for everyone to something that concentrates power and information. Everybody complains about it, but very little is done about it. The tech industry doesn't need to disrupt the world nearly as much as the tech industry needs disruption.

It matters that I do this because, while I may have just a small chance of succeeding, I probably have a better chance then most. For the few of us who have the skills, the time and the plans to do something about it, we owe it to all who cant do something about it to at least try.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by simon_acca »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #12
simon_acca wrote: post #6

Your documents and notes are a reflection of your knowledge and experience. We believe the hard work you put into them should benefit you in the long term. This is why we are working on the most intuitive and flexible platform for you to capture, share and navigate your thoughts.

Is your platform up yet? Would love to give a try

We are going into beta test in the coming weeks, I would love for you to try it! Shoot me an email (in HN profile) if you are interested.

The invitation is open to anyone of course :)

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by oceanghost »

nikivi wrote: post #11

I am working on Learn Anything. It’s an open source website with the goal of providing most efficient learning paths. A kind of Netflix for learning. If humanity really solves personalized learning by crafting learning paths based on all of Internet’s resources, user’s current knowledge and learning preference, I believe something akin to singularity may be reached. So I am trying to build the website that tries to r…

I have been kicking around a vastly different idea with the end-goal of making education more efficient. Yours is eminently more practical however :)

Glad to see this.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by pmiller2 »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #10
pmiller2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find your mission interesting, but I was turned off by the fact that you're a Canadian company with ~3 people. I wish I could set a reminder to ping you in like 3 or 4 years. :( Best of luck!

What's wrong with it being a Canadian company?

I live in the US, specifically the Bay Area. Based on past experience, it’s unlikely Mixnode could pay me a salary anywhere close to what I could earn here, even after factoring in cost of living. Emigrating is also not practical, even if getting a visa wasn’t a problem.

I live in the East Bay. Here is a cost comparison between Oakland, CA and vancouy, BC: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Oakland costs 15% more, but it’s unlikely this company is going to pay me ~85% of what I make here if I emigrated (and, even if they do, I have a significant amount of student loans as fixed costs). As a remote employee, I’d need ~100% of what I’d make around here, and that would come with significant tax headaches for them.

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by nathan_f77 »

I'm the founder of FormAPI [1], and my company's mission is to help developers fill out and sign PDF documents.

It truly matters to my customers, because they're paying me money. And it truly matters to me, because if the company continues to grow, then I'll have lots of money and freedom. Honestly it's mostly about the money, but I really enjoy building things and solving problems for people.

[1] https://formapi.io

Re: Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

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Post by yunyu »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #19

I'm the founder of FormAPI [1], and my company's mission is to help developers fill out and sign PDF documents. It truly matters to my customers, because they're paying me money. And it truly matters to me, because if the company continues to grow, then I'll have lots of money and freedom. Honestly it's mostly about the money, but I really enjoy building things and solving problems for people. [1] https://formapi.io

Quick side note: the main graphic on your website displays "Upload template", "Set up fields", etc.. in the default serif font on my computer probably because I don't have the Avenir Pro font installed. You can probably fix this by converting the text to outlines in Sketch.
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