The Startup Company

Context

• We got a grant from Aztec to build an MVP of an incorporation platform that lets founders register a company, verify their identity (KYC & AML), purchase company shares and initiate their first payment in 5 minutes.
• Whilst we managed to build a basic version of the product, we did not manage to convince a jurisdiction to let us build their onchain company registry within a timeline compatible for us to raise a seed round.
• We are now opensourcing our work and our learnings with the hope of motivating other teams to advance INCs.

Prerequisites

• Docker Compose

Getting Started

1. Create a .env file from the .env.example and fill it with the appropriate values:

cp .env.example .env

Then edit the .env file with your specific configuration.

2. Run the following command:

docker compose up

If you've made changes to the codebase, use the --build flag to rebuild the images:

docker compose up --build

3. Wait for all containers to start. The process is complete when you see the Next.js startup information in the console for the startup-company-monorepo-frontend-1 container (this typically takes around 1 minute).

4. Once the frontend container displays the Next.js startup information, you can access the application at localhost:8000

Running Individual Components

If you wish to run individual components separately, please refer to the README files in each package directory.