Combobulato — Manifesto
We want to employ a lot of people because people are really good.
Combobulato is broadly a representative democracy, but with a strong set of benign dictatorship pillars in carefully specific bits of its foundation.
We value making lots of little mistakes we can learn from over suffering catastrophes.
We value what people do over what they are.
Candidates
Despite everything, I value what you reckon.
People like marketplaces, as long as they are not being sold there.
The Virtuous Circle
A subscription model which supports ethical consumption.
Open questions:
- What's the circle? e.g. subscription revenue funds ethical sourcing/practices → attracts more users → funds more ethical activity?
- What's being consumed? Is this a subscription for Combobulato itself, or a marketplace/recommendation layer where users discover and subscribe to ethically produced goods or services?
- Where does the "note sharing" core product meet ethical consumption — are notes the vehicle for discovery, recommendation, review?
Taken together it looks like a small, opinionated, human-heavy app that's deliberately building in the opposite direction to most of the industry. Not a platform trying to scale to millions with a skeleton crew — something closer to a cooperative that happens to be software.1
1 Working note. We'll refine this.