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Start and finish an app in one day
- kineticac 17y agoInviting all hacker news readers to join us in a very casual and relaxed day of creating a brand new app in a single day. We will setup a chatterous room, amongst other fun things to keep us all interested. Local hackers are welcome to join us (SF Bay Area).
- smokinn 17y agoYou guys at posterous seem to be mini-app geniuses. If I lived in SF I'd definitely be there.
- sfphotoarts 17y agoBrowseology is Joe, not Posterous, that's Garry and Saichin. Browseology is just blog on Posterous.
- kineticac 17y agoOh yeah, just to be clear, we (me and Joe), host our blog over on Posterous. Didn't mean to be confusing there!
- maurycy 17y agoPosterous guys get the credit for all good things that happen under posterous.com subdomains. ;-)
- kineticac 17y agoI'll buy Garry and Sachin a beer for their troubles and borrowed fame! =)
- smokinn 17y agoOh, sorry about that. Quick suggestion so idiots like me won't get confused again: maybe edit the first comment in this thread and put a "this is us: http://www.browseology.com/ http://www.browseology.com/ " in at the bottom?
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- catch23 17y agoWhere are you guys in the SF Bay Area? Bay Area is a big place, for all we know, you could be located in East Palo Alto.
- kineticac 17y agowe are over in Berkeley, though we might just all meet in San Francisco if there's a big enough crowd at a cafe or some other nice venue with wifi =) The location will have to be tentative, though I'll pick a spot by tomorrow afternoon so you guys have a heads up. If anything, we can just do this remotely on Chatterous. In future events, if this becomes popular enough, we should probably setup a venue for it =)
- dpnewman 17y ago+1 for doing it in person vs chat. much more impact to meet people as far as future connection. also - is it one single app being created or everyone teaming up in small groups or?
- kineticac 17y agowe will all be teaming up in small groups, groups which can be made prior or during the brainstorm sessions in the morning. We won't be holding this at a venue this time, we didn't know the turnout would be so big, and don't have enough time to really make it work out. Next time (which will definitely happen) we will organize a venue (suggestions welcome) and try to get those around the globe to organize within their regions as well.
- arfrank 17y agoIf anyone in the Washington DC area wants to take a crack, shoot me an email.
- kineticac 17y agoGreat idea, totally organize your own get togethers! be sure to join the chatroom on Saturday =)
- tdoggette 17y agoThe next meetup is this weekend, I think, so if you want to run something like this around DC, that's a good bit of your audience.
- bmelton 17y agoWhere does one get information on these meetups? I'm in MD area, working in NOVA, but this is the first I've heard of it.
- yan 17y agoWant to take over the planning for the NOVA meetups once Rusty moves?
- arfrank 17y agoI think he found someone based upon his last email. I'm also MD based so its not totally convenient, but if he still needs someone to help takeover I could help out.
- yan 17y agoI'm also MD based (10 mins south of B'more), but that meet up was the closest thing to me. Email me if you want to chat.
- _pius 17y agoSaturday's tough, but I'll probably be hacking Sunday if anyone around wants to meet up.
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- kineticac 17y agoOfficial chatroom for the event: http://www.chatterous.com/onedayapp/ http://www.chatterous.com/onedayapp/ Thank you chatterous for helping us with the mixup with the rooms.
- kineticac 17y agoThe official start time will be 10am PST | 1pm EST, but everyone is invited to start as early as possible! Those east coasters might get a head start ;)
- kineticac 17y agoIf people want to team up, check the chatterous chat on Saturday! come even if you don't have an idea, it'll be a big brainstorm session.
- cema 17y agoGreat idea. I won't be able to participate in it even virtually (have other plans), but it's inspiring. Maybe next time. Good luck to all and have fun!
- kineticac 17y agowe will definitely do this again, and in a more organized manner. This one will probably all virtual for this round. We will organize some venue and such in the future.
- csbartus 17y agoI'm wondering what kind of tools you are using for such a fast tempo. Are we headind towards automagically generated web applications?
- kineticac 17y agoEveryone probably has their own set of tools, but the tools can be used for both LARGE and small projects. Usually using popular frameworks for web, or just doing quick and easy adobe AIR projects would be fairly quick as well. Web applications could be faster to build, mainly because there is probably a ton of community support and plugins. I'm thinking of either using PHP and Smarty Templates, or Ruby on Rail.
- tome 17y agoThis sounds like fun. It's the ICFP competition (www.icfpcontest.org) of webapps!
- domodomo 17y agoReminds me of Album-A-Day: http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/ http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/
- wushupork 17y agoI like these things as a great way to meet fellow hackers, but every time I've done this (I've only done 3), I've seen the same thing happen. People get excited about the app while there, but there seems to be little follow through afterwards. Even if you do manage to finish the app (which is hard but not impossible), the point is to have a successful app. There is often no marketing or promotion of the app or even just adding new features. For once I'd like to see an app come out of one of these that takes off. But for that to happen there needs to be follow through and constant work that goes in after these things and not just during the meeting.I think it would make a great success story and get more people interested in doing these things.
- kineticac 17y agoWe have about 10 applicants already! A few YC company reps will pop into the chatroom and hopefully take part.
- kineticac 17y agoAnnouncement: This will be a completely virtual event! Please join the Chatterous chatroom to participate. We will post up at a cafe in SF, so if you guys are in SF send me a message. Next time around we will definitely organize a venue (if you have one in mind, please let me know) since there is such a big outcome. Thanks to all! See you early in the morning!
- kineticac 17y agoThe official voice chat: https://voxli.com/onedayapp https://voxli.com/onedayapp Try to keep it clean ;)