What's old is new again. I wanted to share an experiment I built for my blog: a print edition, delivered to physical mailboxes.
This idea was inspired by Craig's "Between Two Mountains" pop-up. As those emails accumulated in my inbox, I wanted to print them out so I could carry them to a coffee shop. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I ended up building a printing system for my own site.
Sharing because I think it's a fun idea that I hope more blogs embrace. And, it's built on the YC company Lob.
Bookmarked! Excited to look into this and potentially subscribe this week.
Our coding meetups [0] are going increasingly offline and I'm looking for ways to exit the feed [1]. So I really want to learn from organizations like The Offline Club and now you.
1) for people that aren't in a union, make labor lawyers easy to use. there could be an app used to walk you through gathering evidence about various workplace violations (osha/safety stuff, wage theft, etc) and then hook you up with lawyers in a two-sided marketplace. workers would get easy represenation, lawyers would get a stream of clients that show up with a nicely formatted bundle of evidence. it could even work to find conneted cases could get bundled into class actions.
2) when everybody worked in the same office/shop floor, you could easily commiserate and start discussions about unionization and collective action. if you're an app-mediated gig-worker (uber drivers, door-dashers, etc) you don't know how to connect with your coworkers. there needs to be a social platform where people would be able to make these connections. to do this, you'd need a way to verify that users are actual employees and put in various protections to make sure management isn't spying on them.