GOALS I am brainstorming on ideas for minimal viable product seastead. Goal is to make a seastead that is a huge commercial success. The goal for the seastead is to be a home for a single family with lots of solar and enough stability that it is comfortable out in the open ocean. If a seastead can move between countries on its own power then the owner has the power to choose what laws and taxes he is living under (at least for a time). This is a higher level of freedom than most people have. We want the seastead to be less work and stress than a normal family yacht. Many people feel "a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into". We don't want the seastead to feel like that. Many family yachts have very limited water and no dish washer or washing machine so it can feel a bit like camping. The seastead will have plenty of water, a dish washer, washing machine, dryer, and full sized fridge/freezer. A normal family yacht does not have AC. We want to be able to air-condition at least one room at a time, say bedroom at night and office room during the day. With windows closed and AC the inside will be more like a house next to the ocean than a typical yacht as far as the amount of salt spray on things inside. The accelerations inside are also going to be far less than a normal yacht. So using regular dish washer, washing machine, freazer, etc instead of "marine grade" may be possible and save a lot of money. We think there is a market niche between the "living on a boat" (expensive, requires sailing skills, high maintenance) and the "living on land" (no movement at all) options with this slow moving seastead. And unlike a house there is no property tax to pay. Our marketing slogan might be, "seasteads, faster than a house, cheaper than a yacht". There will be mooring fees but the seastead owner can go where the fees are reasonable. With Starlink there are digital nomads who could live and working on seastead. We want the seastead to be enough more stable that getting work done on a computer while the vessel is under way is practical. Tourists could also like the idea of a living on the ocean for a week or two. For locations like the Caribbean, moving at modest speeds you can visit many different islands over the 6 months outside hurricane season. The more affordable we can make this the easier it will be to get customers. We hope to be much cheaper than a yacht of comparable comfort and living space. We want a design with long life and low maintenance. We want to appeal to people who have a 40 hour a week job and can not dedicate their full time to sailing and taking care of a ship. A normal boat still moves around enough at anchor that a Tech Nomad can have trouble focusing on a computer. If we can do "tension leg anchoring" so the seastead does not move at anchor, this will be much better for people trying to get work done on a computer. We want a system where it is easy to put in and remove helical mooring screws for the tension legs. For the first MVP seastead, I would like to be able to get all the essential seastead parts into one regular 40 foot shipping container. We also want a design that is reasonable easy to assemble so we can sell it as a kit. The kit will need minimal help from a shipyard with most of the work things that can be done by the buyer or dealers in various locations around the world. We want a desgin that is very safe and fault tolerant. So if one breakable part breaks we don't want to sink or be totally stuck. For the initial seasteads we are just targetting "Sea State Conditions" like the Caribbean sea conditions, not North Atlantic waves etc. And during hurricane season the seasteads will have to be at the Southern edge to be out of the hurricane zone. Do these goals make sense? Are there other important goals we should keep in mind?