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We're doing the same thing. Our team is located in NYC, London, and Aurora, IL. We launched our little meta-board gaming company at http://susd.pretend-money.

We're doing the same thing. Our team is located in NYC, London, and Aurora, IL. We launched our little meta-board gaming company at http://susd.pretend-money.com http://susd.pretend-money.com a little over 1.5 months ago. And we're already profitable! We made a conscious decision to forego taking money from advertisers/investors, and even dodged a pre-launch acquihire offer, in an attempt to create something that's 100% our vision (unless YC wanted to fund us.) Our plan is to grow slowly, keep up the quality, and use the money that we're making from the show/blog/podcast to fund even more ambitious community/tech projects. AND! Board Games are Big Business! Board/card/traditional gaming (whatever you want to call it) has been exploding in America over the last 10 years or so. It taps into that primal need for people to sit around together and ACTUALLY interact with each other. We're in a bit of a "Golden Age of Board Gaming". Quinns gave a hilarious talk on the subject: http://susd.pretend-money.com/videos/v/board-game-golden-age-talk/ http://susd.pretend-money.com/videos/v/board-game-golden-age...

DizzyDoo 13y ago
I absolutely love Shut Up and Sit Down, I followed Quinns over from Rock Paper Shotgun and have enjoyed the videos very much since. I'm very happy to hear you're profitable already. I would love to see what the Quinns and Paul think of Machine Of Death, a similarly mega-funded card game Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-death-the-game-of-creative-assassinatio http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-de...) when it arrives.
- mikeurbanski 13y ago
  Thanks! We're "profitable". We're really happy with how the new site turned out. Having enough to keep the lights on an pay some friends to help out with the writing after only a month is a huge accomplishment. I'm pretty curious about MoD too! We'll see what happens.
JonLim 13y ago
A bit confused, but curious: you guys are essentially curating board games to promote and sell, am I right? I'm just trying to figure out if you guys make them or just talk about them. :) Either way, a lot of great content on there.
- mikeurbanski 13y ago
  We don't make board games, we're just wildly passionate about them. Paul & Quinns started Shut Up & Sit Down so they could have fun reviewing and writing about board games. They just had a hard time figuring out how to make it sustainable. I've been playing with technology surrounding gaming for the last three years or so(and gaming since I was little) so it was natural for us all to team up and build something together.

DizzyDoo 13y ago

I absolutely love Shut Up and Sit Down, I followed Quinns over from Rock Paper Shotgun and have enjoyed the videos very much since. I'm very happy to hear you're profitable already. I would love to see what the Quinns and Paul think of Machine Of Death, a similarly mega-funded card game Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-death-the-game-of-creative-assassinatio http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234131468/machine-of-de...) when it arrives.

mikeurbanski 13y ago
Thanks! We're "profitable". We're really happy with how the new site turned out. Having enough to keep the lights on an pay some friends to help out with the writing after only a month is a huge accomplishment. I'm pretty curious about MoD too! We'll see what happens.

JonLim 13y ago

A bit confused, but curious: you guys are essentially curating board games to promote and sell, am I right? I'm just trying to figure out if you guys make them or just talk about them. :) Either way, a lot of great content on there.

mikeurbanski 13y ago
We don't make board games, we're just wildly passionate about them. Paul & Quinns started Shut Up & Sit Down so they could have fun reviewing and writing about board games. They just had a hard time figuring out how to make it sustainable. I've been playing with technology surrounding gaming for the last three years or so(and gaming since I was little) so it was natural for us all to team up and build something together.