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If you are working, do you necessarily want to be bothered?
I think people who go to work to coffee shops are there to be noticed. There's plenty of places you can work at without the bother. Let's be real about this.
I'm truly amazed that this made the top of Hacker News. A $5 decal that advertises services. We've officially come full circle. I hear that people have even tried approaching potential clients and talking to them and once one crazy person actually spent money on soliciting business in a printed periodical with somewhat widespread distribution.
I thought it was a new band :) Wouldn't coffee shop owners use this to kick you out?
The stuff some coffee shops put up with is truly bewildering.
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Downside: you're meeting with a potential investor or client for your start-up and you've got to pull your laptop out. Other possible downsides include, people coming up to you and bothering you with non-relevant "work" or "free work for equity" which you're not interested in. There is also the exclusivity thing, where a potential client might perceive you as "too eager" for work, and you end up loosing a gig you mig…
Velcro would work.
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Velcro would work.
Now that's a neat Idea, you could be a billboard when the time is right and take it down at other times... You might even get more creative and hook up your smartphone or tablet as a display on the other side with whatever wording you want. Maybe a scrolling marquee app. Heck, you could advertise whatever you want on your display at that point. If it then becomes a trend, one could pay people small amounts of money f…
This just looks like another generic meaningless sticker that people stick all over their laptops. If you really want people in coffeeshops to approach you try something more personal and direct. "I'm xxxx. I build websites/applications, feel free to say hi,let's chat!" or whatever.
It doesn't mean anything; I bought this laptop & went directly to a conference, and just wanted it to look slightly distinctive, and the duct tape was all I had. It does cover the Apple logo so it looks like I hate Apple or something (I do hate excessive and ostentatious branding).
I kept it because I kept having conversations about it. Even baristas remember me as the guy with the X.
It's odd but I don't think a logo has any meaning any more, because real life turned into Nascar.
Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain.
In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't get that many with one domain and you also are preventing anyone who wants to get in touch with you from contacting you.
Also, why should someone give you money if you don't even have any info as to who you are that they can trace on your website? (which to repeat I like the idea).
Registrars (I run an ICANN registrar) typically push privacy because it's good for them. I've seen privacy on records with businesses that want the exact opposite.
Anyone who disagrees please post your thoughts and I will address them individually based on my years in this business. (I'd actually like to hear new reasons why people do this that I haven't heard before).
I'd be very curious about the viability of clients who approach you in a coffee shop. Seems like you'd get an awful lot of, "So hey, I have this idea that's like Facebook and Youtube combined and I think it could be the next big thing". That's not to say you won't ever find a good client in a coffee shop, but I suspect it has a lower viability rate than a Craigslist ad, and at least on Craigslist I don't have to spen…
@spqr Your comment is informative, but your account has been hellbanned for quite a while it seems. Only users with showdead can read your replies. Maybe you'd like to look into that.