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Basic income and the freedom to pursue things without having to worry about money, could be that opportunity.


You don't even need to go that far; wider adoption of remote work would create enough opportunity for a lot of people.


Basic income is absolutely one route, but I can think of a few others. A startup could thrive in a smaller city where their employees could achieve a high quality of life without extraordinary expense. You'd still have to solve the recruiting problem, however, and employees would be wary of lock-in effects.


Beat me to it. Without some sort of income guarantee, most people would not move to remote cities.

edit: not sure why this is controversial. other than retired folks, who would move to the middle of nowhere as a result of this "kickstarter" if they aren't going to be guaranteed a job there?


Money is not a worry, but food and shelter.

If everyone gets money and freedom, where do food and shelter come from?


Since they're doing it at the browser level, it would have been nice if they provided screen sharing instead of this.

Google Hangouts-like screen sharing without the need for an account would be awesome.


They're not. "Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants..."


The service sort of implies otherwise. If it's a phone number they'll get texts and iMessages. If they're using the feature that forwards iMessages to an AppleID the SIM must be in an iPhone, and I hardly think they'd reply to every SMS from a single iPhone.


The easier answer is that the screenshots are faked and not actually sent through the service; they probably just renamed a real contact who happened to have an iPhone 'Jarvis' for the purpose of making screenshots.

All the screenshots have timestamps a few minutes apart showing a plugged-in iPhone with an increasing charge over the course of a few minutes.


Love this idea! Great job Dave and team.


Visual progress is important, and it's currently done in the following way: when you complete a routine, it goes away, and it stays away until it requires your attention.

The second version will give you exactly what you expect: a historical chart of your progress, and also a nice surprise: a view to seeing how you're performing on all of your routines.


Thanks! It was a great experience and I'll be sharing what I've learnt with the community in a future post.


Good catch! I'm considering using thinner icons, so it's more in line with iOS 7, for the next release.


If you accidentally mark a routine complete, you can bring it back by rescheduling it for today.


Still kind of frustrating. I don't want to schedule a task for a specific time, I want to change it back from 1/1 to 0/1. Is this coming in the next release?


Oh, that's what you mean. Yes, that's definitely coming in the next release!


Awesome, thanks!



Please don't sell my email address to marketers.


Definitely won't do that.



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