Homebase

The "Home Base" is a place where you come to work on projects derived from great ideas discovered on Halfbakery, or other great places, and entertain while getting some of the more desired ideas to graduate sooner!

So how does this place work? In addition to familiar Categories and Ideas, a "Project" type is introduced, which can be added to one more ore Ideas. The ideas themselves are different, in a sense that it's less like a sandbox, and more like a forge, so you only include those ideas, that -- while may sound far-fetched, -- you'd like to see them through to fruition, possibly making into a business, rather than something necessarily uniquely original or something you throw out to discussion cause you'd not do it. The categories here are also different, in that they are trying to capture global or generic goals, -- a category is a goals class, because of linguistic pragmatics, or -- people and machines use categories to classify tools and methods to make them better retrievable for goals.

Finally, the Projects are such that:

- In place of of catchy summary, they have a functional mission,
- In place of categories, they have ideas that they are derived from,
- Instead of collection of links, a project has a list tasks and transfers,
- Instead of votes, it has funds (P&L) invested or divested to/from the project.
- Each project gets a virtual company (at least in our minds) and a banking account.
- Virtual company is defined as a mathematical set of monetary accounts linked or bound to a project.
- Project-dedicated monetary accounts can be:
-- your personal project-dedicated bank account or
-- your real company's dedicated bank account, or even
-- a cryptocurrency account, or
-- anything else that you use to trade on behalf of the project.
-- Consistency is the key, and ability to read all transactions automatically is essential.

The identities and monetary contributions are only linked, read and verified, not done here.

Everything else is pretty much as in tradition: the amazing community attention self-management algorithm lists items ordered by latest modifications, making projects evolve through long-term semi-stochastic voluntary contributions of interested netizens, at a relaxed pace, without todos or compulsory deadlines, driven entirely by the inspirations of doers that find it meaningful and fun to ping-pong about new done tasks and transfers added in public, -- sharing results and getting feedback about their unconstrained creative processes that they want to make part of a particular project by linking them as tasks to projects.

The projects stay atop as long as there are people coming back to add tasks, transfers, or talk about them, and may stay dormant for years, until someone rediscovers them with a new wave of inspiration to chip in, and then again it becomes hot as a well-funded startup or a heated discussion, as long as it remains interesting to at least some folks, and then, another production thread captures our attention.

Participation is completely voluntary, and it is user's responbility to make so that data sources have granted financial data for "Home Base" to reshare it with public or derive metrics from it and share them publicly.