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by hkhanna 5y ago
The most common case is very early stage technology startups where most of their employees wear many hats. They usually have no legal counsel and maybe 1 or 2 developers including a CTO. They need help on everything from employment agreemen
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by hkhanna 5y ago
Lawyer (corporate/VC/M&A) for $495 per hour, with discounts offered if they have me on retainer. Python/Django/React.js developer for $295 per hour. I offer both of these together at a blended rate to folks who need
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by hkhanna 5y ago
You're exactly right. The signature reflecting some sort of hash of the fully executed document is on the roadmap. There are some nuances around what exactly is fed into the hash. And, there are lots of other great ideas in these comme
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by hkhanna 5y ago
The proof is in a couple of places, although I will point out that all conventional electronic signature services suffer from similar issues. First, yes, it's on our servers. But crucially, all parties also receive a copy of the fully
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by hkhanna 5y ago
There are! I just had no idea how positive the reception would be. If you're interested in a higher tier, just reach out to the email in my profile and we'll set something up.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
I have felt this exact pain. I think I know the path to overcoming Microsoft Word in the legal world. It will be a long road, but it will happen sooner or later. I think we can make it happen sooner.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
That's planned. And it will go further than existing templates where it's just fill in the blank. An idea I had a couple jobs ago -- which I intend to develop now -- is the ability to encode logic into the templates so that the te
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by hkhanna 5y ago
100%. I think about this balance constantly.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
If you're serious, reach out to me at the email in my profile.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
This is great. Thank you for letting me know about them! Both of your ideas are on the very near-term feature list.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
Great ideas. This is pretty bare bones at this point. Only one person can create the contract and send it for signature. Planned development includes negotiation of contracts using version control.
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by hkhanna 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree there's a lot that remains to be done on formatting, etc. This is, after all, just an MVP. One of the directions I may take this is to allow those things you mention like clause numbers and definitions
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by hkhanna 5y ago
That's right! They often want to integrate with existing processes or products (often Salesforce) to automatically send contracts out for signatures on behalf of the company.
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Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers(magistrate.khanna.law)
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by hkhanna 5y ago
It's still doable, yes, although the guest account feature is relatively new. But it's cumbersome to use because, at least the last time I used it, every 7 days you have to re-authenticate via a verification code sent to your emai
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by hkhanna 5y ago
I second Fastmail for email & calendar. The key vendor lockin that has made it hard for me to get away from Google Workspace (f/k/a GSuite) is Google Docs. Lots of people in my work and personal life share and collaborate on G
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by hkhanna 5y ago
That's exactly right. Bachelors & Masters in biomedical engineering. The pay is not great, even with an advanced degree!
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by hkhanna 5y ago
I went from being a biomedical engineer -> M&A lawyer -> software engineer with a side legal practice. I learned that law school was intellectually rewarding and the practice of law can be fun, but I could not stop thinking about
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by hkhanna 5y ago
I can attest to this as well. I used Gusto and have recommended it to all my clients since 2013. The product and support were incredible. Today, it's a different story. The product is buggy, tax filings get missed and support seems to
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by hkhanna 5y ago
If it were me, I'd prepare a basic contractor agreement with an hourly rate. And as a retainer, that agreement would guarantee a minimum number of hours a month. You would commit to provide those minimum hours but will not commit to go
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by hkhanna 5y ago
This might not be what you had in mind, but the web framework Django. It's been around for ages and doesn't change in dramatic ways. It's not perfect by any means, but it just works and is reasonably easy to understand and ex
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by hkhanna 5y ago
Donate monthly ($10) to FSF.
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Deploying Django-Tailwind to Heroku(khanna.law)
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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder (2019)(khanna.law)
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by hkhanna 5y ago
Harvest: https://www.getharvest.com/ Simple, discoverable, does not abuse the SPA paradigm, and lets you turn off features you don't need so it doesn't clutter the UI.
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When Tech Talk Doesn’t Work, Try Politics(nytimes.com)
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Using Tailwind UI and Next.js Together(khanna.law)
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by hkhanna 6y ago
You are assuming that you know $a. You don’t know $a for shares of stock in a pre-IPO company. That’s why FMV and 409A matter here. They allow us find $a in a way that’s acceptable to the IRS. We are talking about taxes, after all.
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by hkhanna 6y ago
The answer is: it depends on the fair market value of the shares of stock I own. If the shares are publicly traded, there's an easy answer. If they're not publicly traded, it depends on how FMV is determined, but it would not surp
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by hkhanna 6y ago
I'm not necessarily in favor of a wealth tax, but this essay is deeply flawed for the many reasons identified in other comments. What struck me is that I showed it to my partner who has no formal finance training and she quickly identi

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