0. I’m very interested in hearing about potentially impactful software projects, please have me in mind if more ideas comes up. Especially since I’m considering working at a place that has a big budget to “improve the world (by helping charities) with technology”
I have reasons to think he has more similar ideas, maybe it’s worth nudging him :) (but don’t tell him I said anything)
A Twitter clone that promotes good discussion: Seems like a really hard project that a lot of people want, but maybe we’re in an unusually good position to do it since we can bring a good critical mass of people. Also seems related to discussions on lesswrong.com, such as this and this.
This would be close to my heart, but I haven’t heard any reasonable sounding ideas on how to approach this huge important problem. The best POCs I see out there are StackOverflow <3 and Wikipedia <3
Internal docs / knowledge management / similar internal tools: I don’t really see why EA would have an advantage here beyond off-the-shelf tools. This seems monitizable, so I assume companies are already working on it, no?
Marketing: An EA (Johnstuart Winchell) is running an (inspiring) project around this already [Teaching EA orgs how to use their free (!) $10,000 per month (!) grant for adwords], maybe he has more ideas or knows about more pain points.
“Organized datasets”: This is probably a low hanging fruit (easy to implement, high value), if you/anyone has ideas for something we’re missing
“Organization-specific workflows”: The product-manager side of me is saying “this has to start from user needs”. Is there some process where EA orgs can surface pain points that might be solvable with software? I’m guessing that not, and this actually might be promising, I think maybe I’ll try doing this (waiting for feedback first)
0. I’m very interested in hearing about potentially impactful software projects, please have me in mind if more ideas comes up. Especially since I’m considering working at a place that has a big budget to “improve the world (by helping charities) with technology”
Other thoughts:
Connected Papers was built by (at least one) EA.
I have reasons to think he has more similar ideas, maybe it’s worth nudging him :) (but don’t tell him I said anything)
A Twitter clone that promotes good discussion:
Seems like a really hard project that a lot of people want, but maybe we’re in an unusually good position to do it since we can bring a good critical mass of people. Also seems related to discussions on lesswrong.com, such as this and this.
This would be close to my heart, but I haven’t heard any reasonable sounding ideas on how to approach this huge important problem. The best POCs I see out there are StackOverflow <3 and Wikipedia <3
Internal docs / knowledge management / similar internal tools:
I don’t really see why EA would have an advantage here beyond off-the-shelf tools. This seems monitizable, so I assume companies are already working on it, no?
Marketing: An EA (Johnstuart Winchell) is running an (inspiring) project around this already [Teaching EA orgs how to use their free (!) $10,000 per month (!) grant for adwords], maybe he has more ideas or knows about more pain points.
“Organized datasets”: This is probably a low hanging fruit (easy to implement, high value), if you/anyone has ideas for something we’re missing
“Organization-specific workflows”: The product-manager side of me is saying “this has to start from user needs”. Is there some process where EA orgs can surface pain points that might be solvable with software? I’m guessing that not, and this actually might be promising, I think maybe I’ll try doing this (waiting for feedback first)
5. “Organized datasets”: High five to MichaelA for making lots of these