This weekend's project: shellcompanyfinder.com

The thread that started it all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134813

I am soliciting ideas for shellcompanyfinder.com I'm going to build it this weekend. I'd love to have some help with it. It's a great idea and a way that we can start to combat some of the ridiculous behavior from corporations who hide their actions with shell companies.

For now, it's a list of companies with a many-to-many to associate them. We can add comments to companies to discuss whether or not they are actually shells. It also accommodates actions these companies have taken so we can roll up all the bad behavior for the uber parent "name brand company." These types of tricks aren't just perpetrated by corporations no one has ever heard of. Think Enron, MCI/Worldcom, ATT, and a host of others...

You can also vote on whether or not you think a particular company is a shell and provide evidence in the form of uploaded attachments that could be scanned documents or public notices for DBA's, etc.

Please share your thoughts. I want to have something up by Monday morning, so the sooner the better!

EDIT: The site is live now: http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com though obviously still a work in progress. If you are interested, create an account. We may want to set up a gotomeeting to run through how to make changes. Everything is behind the login wall right now.