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Oenone is an app being designed to triage and provide care to homeless patients for non-profit street medicine providers.

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Seon was an unreleased app meant to help people manage their long-term disabilities independently.

I built a tiny house out of a 1975 vintage jail trailer for $20k in 2022.

Verena was an app released in 2016 designed to be a hidden security system for people in dangerous situations.

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In the heat of the moment, we fail to properly compute information, forget critical things, or have a delayed reaction time that computers just don’t have. And the results can be deadly: plane crashes, car crashes, and more. All symptoms of an inability to make sense of the data, or being forced to be an actor in a system that previously automated your job away.

“Most of the things we face today are deeply complex, in a fragmented digital world. I think so many of the non-profits that exist today do incredible things. But it’s still not enough. Maybe what nonprofits do never will be enough. But it’s worth using the playbook of tech companies, who achieve incredibly high-scale penetration with low cost. With interconnected software, we can build a non-profit that’s able to help anyone with any major issue they’re facing, anywhere.”

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I am a systems person, and the last thing startups often develop are systems. What I did over the holidays was build mine. It’s designed not only to organize everything for me, but to be extensible as jumping off points to share with the team, or to keep them functioning if I die tomorrow. Our company will live and die by the knowledge we acquire, and failure to track and implement that knowledge is legitimately throwing money in the trash.

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It’s my belief that to truly build software that impacts people’s lives, it’s not enough to relieve one area of it: it would be better to have a set number of software that addresses common issues, and help people combine them to fit their situation.

People do not download apps for the features, they do it for the cultural relevance: to themselves, to others, to major events, or to patterns they may not themselves recognize. Anyone can create a generic social media app. Very few can create a product that enables the community who uses it to create part of their identity. That identity with the product brings cultural relevance.

Faura is a company I cofounded in 2022 to measure and incentivize the resilience of buildings to natural disasters.