The cocreation platform, that would boost entrepreneurs

Inspiration

Initial thought

As a developer and entrepreneur and I'm asking mysekf the following: Can building a company could someday become as awesome as a modern developer experience – a delightful and cooperative entrepreneur experience.

What if...

... companies were built with the mindset and concepts of open source development?

... a founder could check out another company's repository to see wich method is used to produce a product?

... someone could then send a pull request with the message "replace method with more environment friendly method"? (fellow nerds know what i mean ;)

... not only companies but also other real life systems (governments, school systems, communities ...) were built this way?

... engaged citizens could improve how the government processes work?

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Idea

The following are just rough and loose thoughts typed down just today to explain the vision in a first draft.

Open space for problems and solutions

An organization is an entity that solves one or more problems. We would look at an organization as a package/component in a global system. The Entrepreneur starts the organizational concept on our platform by formulating the problem that needs to be solved. There are already many solutions of other entrepreneurs on the platform. A smart ai powered indexing and recommendation system could then suggest to have a look at a repository of another entrepreneur on the other side of the world or maybe in the neighborhood to see how they solved it.

Process documentation and versioning

Leaders or employees in charge of building processes in the organization would create a conceptual model as a component on this platform. This model is versioned and decision processes are documented and augmented with resources, links, media, tags and other references. This visually documents how an organization works and how it connects to others.

Collaboration on organizations

Software developers believe that components shouldn't be built again and again. They reuse packages from other developers. If it does not serve their need well enough, they create a fork and extend the functionality. They also might send the original package a suggestion to improve. So both enjoy the advantages of the collaboration.

Kickstart for organizations

Why do organizations, that want to save the planet need to build non specific organizational components from scratch again and again? An entrepreneur could see transparently how other companies of their size and in their area work and decision processes why they chose a specific approach or service partner. They could just reuse their components and focus on their niche.

Research and connect with like minded

How many platforms are out there? How hard is it to do a good research if another company in the world already works on the same or a similar idea? As a developer I just need github and search for a package. *** NERD MODE ON *** For example recently I saw how another coder built a specific docker image with ffmpeg software that I could use to deploy on aws batch. *** NERD MODE OFF *** It helped me solve a problem in my startup but what was more important: I saw that he is chasing a similar idea and I was able to connect with him talking about challenges and having an inspiring exchange.

Swarm intelligence for (big) systems

In early pioneer phases developers seem to have a different mindset than entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs tend to fear that their ideas and concepts would be stolen. Developers opennly publish their approach and enjoy participation of the community contributing to their work. What kind of power could be unleashed rethinking and disrupting big systems – for example developing the educational system of the future – by thinking in a developers manner? Could a repository on this platform be a starting point for new ideas being developed in Hackathons like UpdateDeutschland?

Transparency for consumers, employees and partners

Looking at a repository can help building trust in the software because you can see how it works and that the coder follows best practices in terms of security, performance and so on. And even if there are flaws and the repository is maintained continuously, one could give feedback to the author on what to improve. These aspects are critical for choosing the right package and closed software or badly maintained repositories look suspicious or unserious to me. Could this way of thinking help companies being motivated to become more transparent to consumers? As a consumer I could base my decision for a product from rather company A which is very transparent about their processes than for a product from company B that does not open up.

What it does

The platform I am thinking of helps with all of the above, just by applying what already exists in the developers world.

mockup

Attached is a quick first draft to show what it could look like

How we will build it

Copy and paste GitHub ;)

No it's not that easy. Organizations are not code and work differently. The concepts though should be as pragmatic and straight forward and the interface should be as easy.

paradigms and technologies

Not just name dropping, but those concepts should be considered at one point

Decentralization of architecture / dapp
Blockchain for different aspects for transparency, security, immutability
AI for recommendation and connections

critical for success

ease of use
performance: this should have the potential to grow global and clunky feeling systems won't
free to use
visually cutting edge
privacy and security
Hen and Egg Problem (Henne-Ei-Problem): the platform will have the same challenge as any other platform
resilience, stability, reliability: users should feel safe putting work into their documentation and be sure that it will be accessible for a long time
How magically well the powerful features for recommendation and connecting components work