This already worked once.
A founder complained to me about what Carta was costing her. She said, “I wish there was a cheaper way to run a cap table.” I said: I’ll build it. So I did — Tenacap — and it works, and people use it.
I’ve spent thirty years building solutions for health care. For most of those years, the software itself was the rate-limiting step — good ideas died waiting on dev teams, budgets, and roadmaps. That constraint is gone. A working product now takes me days or weeks, depending on complexity — not years. What hasn’t changed is that you see what’s broken with a precision no product manager ever will.
Twenty years ago, Wikinomics made the argument that openness and mass collaboration beat closed companies at their own game. Wikipedia beat Britannica. Linux beat everyone. So this is the trade: you tell me what to build, and what we make belongs to the community that grows it.