I was part of a similar program this summer called HackNY (hackny.org). I was supplied housing and a paid internship with a NY based startup. If you're a student looking to gain some startup experience, I strongly encourage you to attend one of their upcoming hackathons and register for the summer program .
AdoptAHacker invites you to visit NYC
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#32Wow. The website is basically just images. There is no text int he source. Every word is part of an image. Each option in the menu at the top is an image of text. The whole "Dear Hackers" pretty thing is an image. Then the "Get Started!" button is another image. Then the "Ambassadors From" section is one big image that includes both the heading and the logos. Then the "Success Stories" section is also one image, incl…
they're donating their apartments to random strangers... i think we can give them a pass on lazy web design.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
They built the site in a day. Cut the dudes some slack.
Are you saying that they couldn't add text to the page (outside of images) in a day?
I was part of the team that put this together at Startup Weekend in NY. We were all about getting this up and out into the world before the end of the weekend. Putting up mostly static images allowed us to not worry about any CSS bullshit and focus all our efforts on the copy, design, and minimum viable functionality for the site.
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#34I sent an e-mail to the address listed, and it failed. ------------- Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: nyc@adoptahacker.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 5…
Hey Andrew, sorry, we were experiencing strange mailserver issues--adoptahacker@gmail.com works in the meantime.
Ben
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#35The problem in NYC isn't that we don't have hackers, it's that we don't have the entrepreneurial minded hackers.
I'm a designer working on my startup and most of my friends are developers. But what I've noticed is that all my friends look to work at the big companies. It's strange, but I'm not surprised - they don't know the options available to them.
Entrepreneurship isn't a course in their CS curriculum. They don't realize the potential they can have to change the world.
To solve the problem, why not have startups recruit students at career fairs?
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#36I hear so much about the desperate shortage of hackers in NYC yet I send my resume to a few startups, full of relevant experience at top-tier companies, and get not a peep back. What gives?
Miles, what kind of projects are you looking to get involved in? I know plenty of people in the city looking for hackers. hit me up at brett AT appfund.com
@brett1211