Thanks! We totally agree. Maybe if people are interested, we'd open source it or build a tool that makes it super easy for other companies to share this data also.
I'm one of the founders of ofCourseBooks. Happy to answer any questions people might have.
We built this to help encourage ourselves to, not only be more transparent, but to not just sit in front of the computer all day, as is easy to happen while coding up new features. We also have any updates posting to slack to easily show how people are doing. It's turned into a fun little competition between us founders.
This is a great episode. Daniel is still figuring things out, but there were so many great nuggets in there that I didn't care it wasn't the smoothest interview.
Just curious, what is the actual pain point for you? Is it the actual paying of the bills, remembering to pay them, splitting them between people, or something else?
“While I am sure that there has always been a tempt for people to spend their time on insecurity work, new technology and ubiquitous online access has made it easier now than ever before. Data that COULD make you feel more at ease is now always at your finger tips. Much like a drug that promises instant gratification. And therefore, we always have a desire to access it - again and again. Why? Because, deep down inside, we are always wondering what we are missing. We want to feel safe.”
— Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work (http://the99percent.com/tips/5810/reduce-your-level-of-insec...)