Ask HN: What is the best open, social ad-hoc team management platform?
An open, social team management platform where you can propose a project (or join a project someone else has proposed) that is staffed on an ad-hoc basis.
A proposed project could either be limited in scope, where the goal is to do something cool and at the same time prove you can deliver within the context of a community based ad-hoc team; or it could be a more ambitious project which would involve trying to get your ad-hoc team funded by an angel or perhaps crowdfunded by an Indiegogo, Kickstarter, or even AngelList.
The platform could have features such as:
- participation ratings (done socially) for identifying credible leads and credible followers to staff projects
- integrating LinkedIn to leverage your network for recruiting
- HR functionality like org charts for teams
- badges to be used on crowdfunding sites to show historical experience in delivering
- help with managing remuneration and profit-sharing (tricky, but definitely useful)
- open source legal documents / workflow management for forming ad-hoc (or perhaps longer term) LLCs
Of course, these features could already be implemented by other platforms.
In fact, I can imagine this being a meta platform which accomplishes many of these stories by leveraging a service-oriented architecture and partnering / integrating other open platforms via standardized APIs anyone can implement to. That spirit of open, transparent co-operation with the community at large would optimally be in the DNA of the platform.
Another important part of the DNA, would be a mission to not only enable anyone anywhere in the world to help cool projects succeed, but perhaps more critically - to provide a clear path for those starting out to follow in order to 'level up' / grow into the person who can help cool projects succeed.
Is something out there that does this (or is trying to do this) well?