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Roadmap · public · living document

What NS should fix.

Synthesized with Donovan Sung from a year of community feedback. Prioritized on Eisenhower (urgency × importance). Each row carries an estimate of who's affected, priority, time, capital, and the NS-core team member who'd own the fix.

This page is itself a fix for one of the rows below ("no public roadmap"). The bug is its own first patch.

Owners ·Jackson2Chance2Otavio1Balaji1Donovan1Unowned3

Q1 · Important + Urgent

4 items

Customer feedback loops only exist for food; not applied to community, events, ops, infra

ness · Build the survey infra + dashboards; Jackson runs the loop and acts on signals.

5/5
~500
1 wk
$1k
Jackson

Member quality declining. No vouching for referrals; volume-incentivized instead of quality

ness · Ship the vouching ledger UI + decay; Chance sets the bar and runs admissions.

5/5
~500
1 wk
$0
Chance

Visa work not prioritized; existential for affected members

ness · Hands off. Pure NS internal.

5/5
~300
1 wk
$0
Otavio

School product hasn't materialized after 18 months

ness · Surface /school once core commits direction. Not before.

4/5
~500
8 wks
$100k
Balaji

Q2 · Important + Not Urgent

6 items

No year-in-review for renewals (both directions); no exit interviews when high-quality members leave

ness · Ship the exit-interview template + monthly synthesis surface.

4/5
~100
1 wk
$0
Chance

No public roadmap / public KPI dashboard tied to NS's actual goals (population, GDP, real estate)

ness · Shipping this page is the first fix. KPI dashboard once NS core commits numbers.

4/5
~500
1 wk
$0
Unowned

Longtermers treated as customers, not partners (people came to co-create thenetworkstate.com)

ness · Once partner roles are defined, surface them on /citizens.

3/5
~100
$0
Unowned

Trial-to-Core paths haven't converted; clearer success criteria + exit terms upfront (Britt model: time-bound contracts)

ness · Could be /solve-tracked; largely an HR flow.

3/5
~40
1 wk
$0
Donovan

Only entry is full residency; no day or week passes (try before you buy)

ness · Once priced, list passes on the site. Pricing decision is NS core.

2/5
~1,000
1 wk
$1k
Unowned

Longtermer lunches happen but no public changelog format (compare changelog.shopify.com)

ness · Ship /changelog next. Jackson writes the entries.

2/5
~500
1 wk
$0
Jackson

How to read this

  • Quality · 1–5. Composite of severity × impact. 5 = ship-stopper.
  • Affected · order-of-magnitude estimate of members impacted.
  • Time / Capital · rough cost of the fix.
  • Owner · who'd land the fix on the NS side.
  • Ness · what ness.city ships toward this row. Most are partnership-shaped.

Anyone in the community can propose a fix on /solve or open a GitHub issue. Patrons can fund any open bounty.

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