Does anyone want to work with me and engineer or market a $5,000 tiny home — the blueprints will be open source, but also manufacture at scale if there is demand. This home would have a solar roof, small battery, water tank, will arrive in a IKEA-like box worldwide. It should allow a 6.5 ft person sleep comfortably and should be movable with a forklift. Think a next generation home for the homeless. Should withstand regular weather for 20 years. DM me. I could invest some $50k to start this venture if we can form a team. Email me at somid3@gmail.com or text me +1 323-240-1241
Ask HN: Tiny Home for $5k USD?
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#3I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution.
I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
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#4I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
Just curious: have you donated to organizations that are solving the homelessness problem? Or do you think the work they are doing is not sufficient and this problem requires another approach.
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#5I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
Just curious: have you donated to organizations that are solving the homelessness problem? Or do you think the work they are doing is not sufficient and this problem requires another approach.
They don’t think at scale, they are not engineers, they are flawed. I’ve donated over $200k in the past to no change in the overall system.
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#6I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
I live in Austria and we do not have people living in tents on the sidewalk anywhere. (But we have some homeless people)
Part of this is probably due to the fact that I pay 48% of everything I earn in taxes and I am totally fine with it!
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#7I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
I live in Austria and we do not have people living in tents on the sidewalk anywhere. (But we have some homeless people) Part of this is probably due to the fact that I pay 48% of everything I earn in taxes and I am totally fine with it!
This is a problem that will get worst in the coming decades.
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#8A beat up commodity shipping container cost me $3,300. If you can deliver a functional home without taking a loss for $1,700 more, you're a genius and a wizard.
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#9A beat up commodity shipping container cost me $3,300. If you can deliver a functional home without taking a loss for $1,700 more, you're a genius and a wizard.
Did you get the container recently? The prices now are double that. At least for my area. I'm in the design phase for my personal "studio apartment"/ workshop container and keep an eye on tiny housing.
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#10If anyone wants to join the group email me at somid3@gmail.com or text me at +1 323-240-1241