They’re not seriously damaging omissions, but things you might want to address are:
How is this better than people just spending their time then claiming impact certificates? Should marginal resources just be spent on scaling up that?
How can you attract non-EA users? Scaling beyond our limited community is a critical challenge for a project that relies on its network of users, and this has been too tricky for other .impact projects in the past.
Do we gain that much by making it for charity? Presumably most people are more motivated by just having cash, and you could take some nominal cut. If you take out the charity part, it starts sounding more like Mechanical Turk, the already-thriving marketplace for low-skilled online work. What is our value add over and above that?
How can we get people to be paid for their full-value? I guess we want to distance it from cheap outsourcing like Mechanical Turk, because that’s low paid. So somehow, you want to make it have more of a ‘consulting’-like feel. But a big challenge in consulting is that it’s mostly selling to large business that are choosing based on reputation, or personal knowledge of a boutique consultant.
So would it be better to start an actual consultancy, and then use the work of a small handful of trusted professionals?
I think using these resources is important, so hopefully these comparisons and challenges lead to some fruitful thinking.
A promising idea.
They’re not seriously damaging omissions, but things you might want to address are:
How is this better than people just spending their time then claiming impact certificates? Should marginal resources just be spent on scaling up that?
How can you attract non-EA users? Scaling beyond our limited community is a critical challenge for a project that relies on its network of users, and this has been too tricky for other .impact projects in the past.
Do we gain that much by making it for charity? Presumably most people are more motivated by just having cash, and you could take some nominal cut. If you take out the charity part, it starts sounding more like Mechanical Turk, the already-thriving marketplace for low-skilled online work. What is our value add over and above that?
How can we get people to be paid for their full-value? I guess we want to distance it from cheap outsourcing like Mechanical Turk, because that’s low paid. So somehow, you want to make it have more of a ‘consulting’-like feel. But a big challenge in consulting is that it’s mostly selling to large business that are choosing based on reputation, or personal knowledge of a boutique consultant.
So would it be better to start an actual consultancy, and then use the work of a small handful of trusted professionals?
I think using these resources is important, so hopefully these comparisons and challenges lead to some fruitful thinking.