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How to crash any Conference, Demo-day, and VIP Party
- scotu 12y agoA good way for the author to be catched doing it from now on... :)
- thomson 12y agoI'm certainly a bit sympathetic to wanting to attend informative conferences and events that charge way too much (even for 'founder-friendly' badges), but I'm not sure if the author ever justifies breaking into both 500 and YC's demo days, which are events reserved for investors and press.
- sashaeslami 12y agoPlease see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606587
- SheepSlapper 12y agoThis article is a long winded way of saying either: a) Steal a badge b) Social engineer your way into the event, or c) Social engineer a free badge
- sashaeslami 12y agoThat's a great way of structuring it. Not sure what exactly "Social engineer" means? Schmooze?
- battani 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
- sashaeslami 12y agoGot it. Makes sense.
- Phil987 12y agoBasically means to deceive/lie to people.
- 7Figures2Commas 12y agoSo I'm supposed to trust my most precious photos to a company run by someone who thought Wedding Crashers was a documentary?
- sashaeslami 12y agoWedding Crashers was entertaining but not realistic :P
- 7Figures2Commas 12y agoAt least Wedding Crashers was entertaining. Your post, not so much. According to your company's AngelList page, your startup has funding, you generated $500,000 in revenue last year on 80% margins, and you're profitable on $15,000/month in paid subscription revenue. Notwithstanding the fact that the numbers don't add up (I don't see how you produce 80% margin on $500,000 in revenue while supporting an 8 person engineering team and paying yourself and co-founder a salary, or how a thriving photo sharing service that claims 270,000 users only has "over 8 million photos & videos uploaded"), if you're profitable and doing as well as claimed, why are you engaging in unethical and possibly illegal behavior to save a few hundred dollars here and there on conference tickets? Not only should you be able to afford the tickets, any highly-profitable company like the one you supposedly run usually welcomes business expenses like these.
- sashaeslami 12y agoYou are assuming that we crashed those events when we were profitable. Incorrect.
- 7Figures2Commas 12y agoI get it. You steal only when you need to. I guess it never occurred to you that in choosing to showcase the techniques you used to attend paid events without paying for them, you have merely demonstrated your character, or more appropriately, lack thereof. Some words of wisdom: the number of people who have lied, cheated and stolen their way to success is much greater than the number who have lied, cheated and stolen their way to success while being foolish or unrepentant enough to brag about it publicly.
- jardson 12y agoGreat article!
- HipstaJules 12y agoI saw someone familiar in the article
- mdturnerphys 12y agoI wrote this article as a resource for people, like cash-strapped founders and students, who have a higher purpose in life but temporarily cannot afford to attend events due to lack of money or the proper contacts. How is making another photo-sharing app a "higher purpose in life"?
- sashaeslami 12y agoCheck out this article and you will find out how Eversnap is making an impact in the world: https://medium.com/startup-founders-entrepreneurs/12fbdeb6a593 https://medium.com/startup-founders-entrepreneurs/12fbdeb6a5...