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Transcriptor is a pseudo-modal editor for transcribing. This modal nature is optimised to accelerate the correction of speech-to-text transcripts. This optimisation was based on a statistical model we created for the most common speech-to-text errors weighted by the time it takes to correct them. Transcribers that have been using it have told us that it makes transcribing faster and more comfortable.

It’s possible to encrypt the transcripts while still allowing to share them with collaborators, it's also possible to use local recordings without uploading them to the server. This makes Transcriptor ideal for working with sensitive information.

We’ve created a short-lived link that allows to try it in demo mode. www.inopinia.com/sharing-companies/transcriptor/4pz2jVzGA2m3wg

Finally Transcriptor is the first project of “Sharing Companies” a different take in the sharing economy where companies share so people profit instead of the other way round. You can learn more about it here www.inopinia.com/sharing-companies. We want to release several other projects in the coming months that will also be part of this initiative, if you are interested on following this you can write to us at info@inopinia.com. We are also looking for NGOs to collaborate with :)

However, I'd prefer to avoid this company becoming a traditional one, focused on maximizing profit. I'd like to dedicate my energies to make it create as much "social value" as possible, but going through the traditional investor route would mean closing this path.

What I'd like to do is to give most benefits of the company back to society rather than the owners [1]. Because of this, I'd need to find socially conscious investors that would be ok with capped returns.

How I could find in a short notice this kind of sources of investment? I don't live in a country where there's an abundance of investors, let alone "socially responsible investors".

[1] How to do this in the most effective way is out of the scope of this Ask HN, even if I think it's the most interesting part of what we'd be doing

What is holding me back is that I do not know how I could enforce such a license. I have created the project on my own with little means and I would have no way of knowing who is using the code to create their own products. I've thought about several alternatives:

1) Giving the ownership of the code to an organization that would have the means to enforce the license. I suppose there could be organizations interested on fostering this kind of project.

2) Keeping the backend code closed so I could know which restaurants are using it and make sure they do the donation to the NGO. There are downsides to this approach from my lack of previous reputation to server costs.

Are there other ways to make sure a license is complied with?

* The product is described in www.alfiv.com, it is used by restaurants in Spain and France and everything (UI, legal terms, marketing...) is translated to English, French and Spanish

I've used a common software stack (react + redux + ramda) in order to facilitate collaboration

* I chose the restoration industry because of its size, if a "social open source" project could become an important player in this field with this kind of license it could allow the creation of many other similar projects