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TechShop: Geek Heaven
- edw519 19y agoHow about a "techshop" for hackers. I've heard of coworking, but we don't have any here, so I'll keep hacking alone. I love my cats, but they're so Web 1.0. Hard to have a reasonable technical discussion with them.
- iamwil 19y agoI assume by hackers here you meant software people--though I usually think of hackers as being apt at both. What would you have at a techshop for software? A cluster? Most of the tools you can get your hands on pretty easily nowadays...so I'm wondering what you're getting at.
- run4yourlives 19y agoThe first thing that pops into my mind is: Profitability? Those machines are expensive to fix if somebody breaks them. Can $30 day passes cover the cost? Other than that, this is an awesome idea.
- alaskamiller 19y ago500 year-long membership at $1100 is $550,000 a year. Amortize your equipment costs (which is what machine shops do) over a 10 year or maybe longer trend and it's perfectly profitable. Your monthly run cost may just be 20-30,000 a month. There are few places open 24 hours here in the Bay and I'm so giddy about this I already sent in my money.