Re:Show HN: Auto draft and mail a custom letter to end debt ...
by dang on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:34AM
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Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We ban sites and accounts for doing this, so please don't. Also, it's usually obvious to the HN community when this is happening, and they consider it spamming.
We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends have something to promote.
This does look like the community might find it interesting, though, so if you email [email protected] and promise not to do that again, we can help you repost the submission in a way that won't get flagged.
Re:Show HN: Auto draft and mail a custom letter to end debt ...
by thekerp on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:25PM
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Hey everyone. Adam, cofounder of Juris/DebtSettle here. We're building stuff like this to use tech to close the gap on access to justice/legal services. Would love any feedback or questions!
Re:Show HN: Auto draft and mail a custom letter to end debt ...
by konstantinbra on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:58PM
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Hey, I'm Konstantin, CTO of Juris. Thanks for the question bjones! DebtSettle is powered by Juris, which is a web application that offers a combination of document assembly and case-management type tools to streamline legal processes and correspondences that already have a clearly defined legal framework in place afforded by the governing laws. Think TurboTax, but for repeatable legal processes.
In the case of DebtSettle, the legal framework is spelled out by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Juris' tools parallel this framework technologically by allowing users to directly draft legally sound correspondences, deliver them in a provable manner, and then act appropriately depending on the letter's outcome. Streamlining this repeatable process makes it accessible to millions more than the current legal system can handle.
We also recognize that there are socially minded organizations out there that are working to make these same legal affordances accessible to the people they are meant to protect, so we have a professional dashboard in BETA that we hope will give these organizations an excalibur when dealing with frustrating debt collection cases.
In short, the law tells us what we CAN do, but not necessarily HOW to do it. With Juris, we're using technology to build out the HOW.
We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends have something to promote.
This does look like the community might find it interesting, though, so if you email [email protected] and promise not to do that again, we can help you repost the submission in a way that won't get flagged.
In the case of DebtSettle, the legal framework is spelled out by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Juris' tools parallel this framework technologically by allowing users to directly draft legally sound correspondences, deliver them in a provable manner, and then act appropriately depending on the letter's outcome. Streamlining this repeatable process makes it accessible to millions more than the current legal system can handle.
We also recognize that there are socially minded organizations out there that are working to make these same legal affordances accessible to the people they are meant to protect, so we have a professional dashboard in BETA that we hope will give these organizations an excalibur when dealing with frustrating debt collection cases.
In short, the law tells us what we CAN do, but not necessarily HOW to do it. With Juris, we're using technology to build out the HOW.