Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts
Congrats on the launch! There's certainly a "problem" worth solving here. I'm a lawyer, and it's crazy that I occasionally actually have to negotiate non-substantive parts of contracts like severance clauses. There really should be standardized boilerplate for at least some provisions (like you're doing), where companies can quickly say "we are using the common terms", and if another side pushes back it raises questions. That said, it's tricky to deal with edge cases, differences in state law, etc.Nevertheless, I like your approach. Kudos especially to open sourcing the contracts--in fact, I think that's critical to success in this space. Open sourcing the terms allows companies to understand them and quickly agree to them with confidence. Wishing you luck!