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This is my first time posting on Hacker News.

Can I just say that you should be very careful about describing your contracts as "Bulletproof".

There is honestly no such thing as a bulletproof contract.

Secondly, telling people that "top attorneys" drafted the contracts is meaningless. That strikes me as just pure throw away marketing speak.

There are many things to consider when drafting this type of agreement and I'm just not sure that your description of the service should give freelancers great comfort.

Just my two cents. I do love the idea and know first hand the importance of having a contract in place.




Describing a contract as "bulletproof" and drafted by "top attorneys" is likely considered puffery [1] under the law, and should be fine in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery


I disagree. Puffery comes into play where things of the law are not concerned. Things like advertising, marketing, etc.

Puffery has no place in the practice of law or -in this case- legal document drafting.

The courts take a dim view of this sort of thing where people might detrimentally rely on this explicit promise that Bonsai's contracts are "Bulletproof".


Apparently they didn't run the marketing of the contracts by the attorneys.

I don't know much about law, but a lawyer told me that law isn't black and white. It's gray. So, bulletproof probably goes against that.


Bullet resistance then. Must leverage ballistics-speak when describing legal processes.


Well, technically the contracts may not be affected by actual bullets so.....




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