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where do you plan to go?

I'm trying to build my own software that maybe someday people will pay for. I've also worked really hard to reduce my family's hard costs (paid off mortgage and car, grow lots of our own food, full solar+battery off-grid setup, biogas digester for cooking gas, etc).

I started the NOVC Alliance[0] for people like me that want to build software outside of the mainstream SV/VC culture. Think of it as "BPA Free" for software.

[0] https://novc.fyi

Increasingly, I find myself thinking that the right path is not to build software... It's to be good at software and then find a concrete problem and use the fact that you know software to attack it.

... But I'll admit that what those problems are I can't rightfully say.

Very Cool.

I see your NOVC Alliance is all about no VC funding. But what about other investors?

The full standard is outlined here [0]

Tl;dr: anti-vc, not anti-capital. It's for those building without institutional equity capital structured around venture-scale returns, which is what tends to result in enshittification imo.

[0] https://novc.fyi/standard

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