Hell yeah! Love to see this launch. We have spent a lot of time at Wren recently trying to reverse engineer some local law APIs to help make renewable energy developer lives easier (less parsing through hundreds of PDFs, dead links, etc.) -- going to try this out and see if it can speed up our workflow.
Hi HN! For my first Next.js app, I created this lightweight web app for my favorite cocktail book, 901 Very Good Cocktails. I use it every weekend as a sort of digital pantry search, and absolutely love it. Built it for myself, figured some of y'all might enjoy :)
Oh and on the note of public filings, we're looking into becoming a Public Benefit Corporation, a type of company that is obligated to consider the impact of their decisions on society, not only shareholders. Kickstarter is one as of 2015, and they published a great charter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/charter
Hi Justin! Ben here, co-founder of Wren. COTAP is a great organization, and the non-profit filings are a good, fundamental way to verify that they exist and are doing what they say. In response to why Wren, our philosophy is that most individuals—perhaps most of you on HN excluded—don't spend the time to figure how to contribute to stopping climate change, let alone carbon reduction projects, and certainly don't spend additional time following up on the additionality and usage of their donations. On top of that, there is a great opportunity to stitch this community together and create a place where ideas can be shared around climate reduction, projects can be supported in tandem, and ideas can be brought forward for how to reduce your carbon footprint. We're only a few weeks old and a lot of this is ambition, but our goal is to expand upon an individual's initial excitement around doing something about climate change.