The food poisoning reminded me of "Into The Wild"
Finally watched that movie on Tuesday night, I loved it, a very interesting story - made we want to get outside more!
The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
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Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#22So instead of ramen profitable, we have tent profitable now.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#23Somewhat off-topic; but if you're wondering how this became a story on HN: it was submitted to the ListServe a bit over an hour ago. The ListServe is a really cool email lottery where every day one person wins the chance to send an email to everyone else on the list, and the results have been nothing short of mesmerizing so far. http://thelistserve.com/
I was going to post something similar, thanks. I was really intrigued by what the HN community's reaction to this would be.
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#24Wow, props for going "all the way". I have to wonder though, is this a wise choice? If the product alone, e.g. the code, is what drives investment it surely is.. But I would guess that's only one of many factors. People are scared away from others that are too different when it comes to things like behaviour and clothing. How long can he live in the forest before he's too "weird" to make meaningful connections to cus…
You ask "is this a wise choice" but I think in fact there isn't much of a choice.
If you want to work on your idea full-time, you need time. If you need time, you have to quit your full-time job doing something else. If you don't have income from your job, you can't afford an apartment.
One could argue you could try to get funding for your idea, but what if you want to make it free and open source and owned by humans rather than any specific corporation?
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#25Wow, props for going "all the way". I have to wonder though, is this a wise choice? If the product alone, e.g. the code, is what drives investment it surely is.. But I would guess that's only one of many factors. People are scared away from others that are too different when it comes to things like behaviour and clothing. How long can he live in the forest before he's too "weird" to make meaningful connections to cus…
I'd expect the Swedish winter will probably make a significant impact on an end-date decision. This is super cool and doable now, but when it hits 0 and is light for 7 hours a day it may not be worth it.
Still - that's in 4-5 months - plenty of time to be hugely productive while keeping living costs to a minimum.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#26Somewhat off-topic; but if you're wondering how this became a story on HN: it was submitted to the ListServe a bit over an hour ago. The ListServe is a really cool email lottery where every day one person wins the chance to send an email to everyone else on the list, and the results have been nothing short of mesmerizing so far. http://thelistserve.com/
My friend also runs the ListServe Archive. It's quite interesting to dig through some of the older submissions and see the variety of the content.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#27The food poisoning reminded me of "Into The Wild"
Finally watched that movie on Tuesday night, I loved it, a very interesting story - made we want to get outside more!
Beautiful movie and soundtrack. There's two guys that rode a lot of the landmarks of the movie/book on mountain bikes: http://forums.mtbr.com/passion/mountain-bike-version-into-wi...
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#28I'm sure it's possible to sit in isolation and create a livable startup. In my experience, though, the best things professionally, such as bizdev deals, finding people to work with or making large sales, come from personal connections. That is, people that you've actually met.
I love the outdoors and I love to code as well. This sounds super fun and I'm kind of jealous of that lifestyle, but I'm not sure if it's a sound business decision.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#29Wow, props for going "all the way". I have to wonder though, is this a wise choice? If the product alone, e.g. the code, is what drives investment it surely is.. But I would guess that's only one of many factors. People are scared away from others that are too different when it comes to things like behaviour and clothing. How long can he live in the forest before he's too "weird" to make meaningful connections to cus…
He does say "until my startup takes off". I don't think this is really that much different from the kid who kept sneaking into a big corp's office (was it YCombinator?) and sleeping under a table in a sleeping bag until he got caught. He's also wisely doing this during a Swedish summer, where the daylight hours are so extreme that everyone's behaviour changes anyway (well, that's what we get here in England anyhow….)
It was AOL:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tire...
On the same vein, the Apple Graphing Calculator story:
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#30This guy is living my dream.