- Identify a need
- Build a prototype or mockup
- Market it, get user feedback, stir up interest from funders/investors
- Release the source code / your plan, let others build it. Connect the builders, the users, and the funders
- Gain status & attention. Repeat step 1
This is one way to basically “steer the economy” through storytelling. Here you’re acting as a kind of product manager for civilization. The more realistic & feasible your pitches are, the more attention you get on your future pitches, and the more likely they will happen.
How to fund yourself? When you generate a success here, you grow the pie, and can get Retroactive funding. Otherwise, make “content” out of the story (as a youtuber etc).