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Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose
We have a room open at our awesome hacker mansion in San Jose. The house is ~4000 sqft, on an _enormous_ lot. Spend all your time coding? Do it with deer and wild turkey hanging out by your side. This is the most serene hacker house you've ever seen.
The house is 4bed, 4bath, and filled with hackers. Right now the population consists of the founders of Tinfoil Security (http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) and Welcu (http://www.welcu.com), both companies backed by 500startups. Genders: 1 Female, 3 Male, and 1 Female part-time; we don't care about your gender. :)
The room is 14x12 (large for anywhere in this area), enormous kitchen with an island and Viking professional stove (and griddle!), restaurant-sized fridge, washer/dryer in house, and of course, 20mbit internet via Comcast. 4 decks, grill outside. And the views you have to see to believe.
It's a new house, and the culture is new too, so we're looking for anyone who is personable, clean, and can contribute to the culture and shape it into whatever it will be.
To get in touch, just email me: borski@mit.edu
Photos of living space, view, room, and (your own) bathroom: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3010745/2/4055Soelro/Room%20Available?h=d544bc
- borski 15y agoPrice is $1100, utilities split amongst the rooms in the house. :)
- agi20dla 15y agoThis place is pretty sweet! I know Borski personally and he'll make sure you are taken care of and that everyone's happy. He's a man of drive, passion, and integrity. If you ask nicely, he'll make you pancakes in the morning. :)
- borski 15y ago<3 pancakes.
- icco 15y agoAww, I wish you guys had posted this a few weeks ago, I would have loved to live with borski. But alas, I just signed a lease.
- helloxander 15y agoWow that's a nice place.
- borski 15y agoYup, you should live there. :)
- malandrew 15y agoI'm looking for a hacker house in the Bay Area at the moment, but I wish there were more hacker houses in a more reasonable price range. $1100 is a lot for anyone trying to bootstrap and keep their burn rate as low as possible.
- jackowayed 15y ago$1100 is cheap for the Bay Area ... You might be able to do better in Oakland/Berkeley. Not ideal, but more and more things are in SF these days, and they're a quick BART ride from SF.
- malandrew 15y ago$1100 is cheap for a nice room or studio with your own bath, but there certainly are many options cheaper than $1100. I've stayed with friends spending $400-600 in SF in the Mission, Downtown and Tenderloin areas, and these aren't people that have been living there for years under rent control. A search on Craigslist shows a lot of options in SF for under $800. Hacker Houses of course have the added benefit that they are also a productive place to work and thus don't require you to pay for an open desk in a co-working space. Artist houses are a much better example of how low you can go insofar as living costs are concerned. I wish there were more hackers that were interested in the approach artists take.
- SkyMarshal 15y ago4br, with 4.5 people currently occupying it? Where's the open room? (I'm not in the market, but clarification might help. g'luck!)
- borski 15y ago1M & 1 part-time F in one room. 1 M & 1 F in another room. 1 M in a third. Fourth is open. :)
- yankoff 15y agoHow far you are from the caltrain station? I have to commute to Menlo Park every day ;)
- borski 15y agoAbout a 5-10min drive. There is a bus that takes you there, also. :)
- fido 15y agoAll of these people are awesome and $1100 is cheap to live with them!! Great place!
- rdl 15y agoThat's a great place -- $1100 is a quite reasonable price for something like that.
- WordSkill 15y agoI would love to set up a Hacker House in Thailand. I'm just not sure how much actual coding would get done.
- etherael 15y agoPotentially silly question, but is that 1100 per month or per week? Not specified anywhere and the duration varies by nation, and I'm not sure what it is for the US?
- borski 15y agoPer month.
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- perivamsi 15y agoDoes anyone have a similar hacker house in Manhattan? I am looking for a place and would love to be a part of such a culture.
- temuze 15y agoWhy doesn't someone just make a hackerhouse.com?