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Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#11

I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an actual house party, there's a room with music playing where you hang out and don't talk so much, but there are also other spaces, like talking by the food table or going to get a drink and striking up a conversation. None of those constructs…

You're not the only one working on this.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#12
I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better.

I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.

For Choremate, I definitely need help around marketing and UX flow. For Crisp, it'd be nice to just have someone to talk about it with, find other maintainers, etc.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#13
post #12

I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better. I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for cr…

Yo I'm a UX designer. Hit me up I advise early stage people on flows all the time.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#14

I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an actual house party, there's a room with music playing where you hang out and don't talk so much, but there are also other spaces, like talking by the food table or going to get a drink and striking up a conversation. None of those constructs…

Does Sococo do something like this? https://www.sococo.com/why-sococo/

Very cool! Wasn't familiar with them before. Thanks for the link! Same general space but I'm thinking about it from a social angle more than a work angle... might be the same problem and might not need separate tools. We'll see!

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#15
Snowdrift.coop is a crowdfunding platform specifically for free/libre/open (FLO) public goods -- freely-licensed software, music, journalism, research, etc. It's based on a new funding mechanism we call Crowdmatching, where patrons pledge to support projects with a monthly donation proportional to the number of others making the same pledge ($1 per 1000 patrons).

We operate as a non-profit cooperative. The site itself is free software, written in Haskell (yesod) and we've also tried to stick with FLO tooling whenever possible, although we made an exception for hosting our source code, which is at https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/snowdrift

Of course, as a free software project, we suffer from the same funding issues we're trying to solve. The project is currently a 100% volunteer effort, and we're making slow (but nonzero!) progress towards our initial launch, when we start hosting our first outside projects.

One of our biggest bottlenecks right now is developer bandwidth. We have a handful of updated designs that address UX issues with the live site, and need to get them implemented -- if you know css, haskell, or both, we'd appreciate help!

I'm heading to bed now but will check in with this thread in the morning; you can also reach out on our discourse forum (" rel="nofollow">https://community.snowdrift.coop>), irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode; #snowdrift:matrix.org), or gitlab.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#17
PKG Deploy (https://www.pkgdeploy.com) - More than a few times I have wanted to create either RPM or DEB packages but the barrier to entry always seemed rather high.

Then while conducting interviews with what recruiters were calling senior engineers it became quite apparent that many people will still manually deploying code using a bunch of manual commands. Something packages are good for.

So I decided to start creating a way to make Linux packaging easier. I'm not sure if the idea has legs as people move more and more towards containers and serverless architecture but it's been refreshing to build something for myself.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

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post #17

PKG Deploy ( https://www.pkgdeploy.com ) - More than a few times I have wanted to create either RPM or DEB packages but the barrier to entry always seemed rather high. Then while conducting interviews with what recruiters were calling senior engineers it became quite apparent that many people will still manually deploying code using a bunch of manual commands. Something packages are good for. So I decided to start cr…

It's been a long time since I've used it, but you may be interested in https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm if you haven't seen it before.

Re: Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

#20
I was not fired, but still like to post it here:

Attempting an opensource non-profit moonshot project to reduce student debt and increase salary of everyone involved in that student's education. It is at a very early stage. Trying to get as much inputs from everyone who matters. Details are here: https://gitlab.com/bsldld/s/-/blob/master/README.md

Everyone is welcome to join.

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