Feel Train was a technology cooperative co-founded by Courtney Stanton and

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and based in

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. It closed at the end of 2019.

Structure

Feel Train was a worker-owned cooperative. Stanton and Kazemi were its first two worker-owners, and the organization was chartered to allow a maximum of eight employees, each with equal salary, equal share in the company and equal firing power over others, including the founders.

Projects

Feel Train projects included the Stay Woke Bot, a

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developed in collaboration with activists

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and

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, and Shortcut, an app developed with radio program ''

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'' to facilitate sharing audio clips across

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, similar to the way

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allow video clips to be shared. Feel Train is also developing a Twitter bot based on the Obama Social Media Archive called Relive 44, which beginning in May 2017 will repost, eight years later, every tweet from President Barack Obama (whose first tweet came in May 2009.)

References

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External links

Feel Train website
Information technology companies of the United States Organizations based in Portland, Oregon