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Hi everyone,

We've decided to change the way we run our site a little. We want to add something new. From the start, we wanted as many people as possible to help create it with us. The more of us there are, the more people can think about solutions to real problems. Besides, without you, we might not even see most of these problems at all. Soon, we will add a few new pages to our site to better describe our plans for the future.

From now on, we will post about two things. We will still share our own simple solutions to problems we've thought of. But we will also start posting about problems that we don't have a good solution for yet. For both kinds of posts, we ask you to please leave comments. You can add to our solutions, share your own ideas, or add your thoughts.

Please invite other people to join us. The more people we have, the more solutions we can find together. Our goal is to make life easier, cheaper, and better in developing countries (and not just there).

We're counting on you. See you soon!

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