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Nomadic: Zipcar for apartments, for people who only need the Internet to work.
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#42I love this idea in principle. I'd love to use it as well as be a host for people, but I wonder how they're going to keep out people who rob/murder you in your sleep?
CouchSurfing is a nice example of that. Sure, there have probably been some episodes, but for the majority it works really great.
If you're not in the majority, it really sucks though:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205794/Rape-horror-...
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#43Would tents strategically placed next to apartments with open wifi work?
In places like downtown Tokyo you may encounter some resistance.
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#44One thing I've noticed while posting for a sublet is that there's a lot of "scrap" left over in housing both demand and supply. My landlord required 60 days notice, so after the premature ending of my last project, I'm on a lease for two months I don't need. There are tons of people who have gaps between leases and need housing for the odd month or two, and there are tons stuck with ends of leases they don't want. Landlords don't want to deal with that stuff because it's not cost effective for them to vet someone for less than 6 months. Why couldn't an Internet company handle this? Charge people an application fee of $35 or so, vet them like a landlord would, then let them into the lease scraps market.
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#45We should put together a HN equivalent of couchsurfing .. and on that note, I have two sofas in San Francisco that are free until I move the middle of august!
There seems to be a small but growing movement of nomads. The first I met was @ioerror and at least in the way he travels he was quite inspiring. My personal goal with every move for the past three years has been to reduce my amount of "stuff". When I moved back to SF from Seattle everything fit in an SUV. With this coming move, except for those two couches and a stand-up office desk, I could fit everything in that SUV and have 2 or 3 passengers.
It would be awesome if more of the hacker labs around the country were live/work so that visiting hackers could crash there. I know a couple of companies in SF that have "visiting hacker" lofts, like Squid Labs.
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#46We should put together a HN equivalent of couchsurfing .. and on that note, I have two sofas in San Francisco that are free until I move the middle of august! There seems to be a small but growing movement of nomads. The first I met was @ioerror and at least in the way he travels he was quite inspiring. My personal goal with every move for the past three years has been to reduce my amount of "stuff". When I moved bac…
hey, tried to find your contact info, so going to briefly write here:
a) Would love to put together an HN equivalent of couchsurfing
b) @andreshb and I are thinking of spending a while in SF, so curious to talk more about the sofas :)
j@jasonlbaptiste.com
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#47Alright, so I need this service ASAP. I'm basically spending the next few months travelling to different startup areas before settling down. My lease ended in Miami and I didn't want to commit another 12 months to somewhere. There's certainly a need for shorter term housing that isn't an overpriced overabundant extended stay. I was quoted like 90 bucks a night for an extended stay AND another 5 bucks for wifi. That's just the complete opposite of what's needed.
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#48I'm getting a 500 when I try to sign up for the list. How unfortunate, this idea is awesome.
Same here.
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