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Flashing Back to the Dotcom Era: 24 Hour Dotcom
comforteagle writes "I was taken back six years in one swoop by the 24 Hour dotcom project this morning. A group of german folks at the Wizards of OS conference have launched 24 hour sit-in 'to create a dotcom business from scratch in 24 hours.' As of writing there's only three hours left until the IPO on eBay. Half serious, half art project, it looks like great fun."
Isn't that in the same league as "placebo chemist" or "linux licence"?
;-)
Really, I'd only be impressed if they subsequently managed to burn through a few million dollars and go out of business within 24 hours - like most other dotcoms in the '90s
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
and 6 hours left until they have to fire every employee... or outsource them to india.
From the article:
* 19:00 Building the Office* 19:30 Kick-off party
* 19:45 International expansion
* 22:00 Concepts and planning
* 02:00 Nightly coding
* 14:00 Milestone 1
* 15:00 Milestone 2
* 16:00 Milestone 3
* 16:50 Milestone 4
* 17:00 Press conference
* 18:00 Final candidate 1
* 18:30 Release Party
* 19:00 Final release
* 18:59 Launch, IPO on eBay
They sure do have their priorities right! All the essential ingredients of a dotcom...
I'm sure they are really appreciating the slashdotting given that they only have a few hours left to construct and sell their web-based application.
[ducks]
Sigs are bad for your health.
Or:
<style>
body{
background-color: white;
}
<style>
People never used to forget this, but now I see it all the time... People just assume that the background color on a web page will be white, and design with that in mind.
Well, I've got my browsers set to show gray backgrounds by default, JUST THE WAY GOD INTENDED! None of this white background heresy! Btw, slashdot apperantly dosn't allow >body bgcolor="white"> as a subject, even thought they convert "<>" to "<>" automaticaly. Lame.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Yeah 24 hours is about right. They should phone Trump and do each hour in realtime for reality TV. That'd be something I'd watch.
"We have no content, no products or services."
"Don't be so negative, we have kittens!"
"Right, kittens!"
"They can play with the kittens if they register on the site..."
"And registration should be 5 tier'd so we can upscale our sales model."
"Why only 5? Let's go with 10 tiers, so everything from Zinc members right up to Platinum VIP Studs."
"Ok, we're done."
"How long was that?"
"We have about 23.56 hours left."
"Let's get some beer!"
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
I am a Slashdot sucker. I just paid $11 for 1% of a 24-hour fly-by night company that showed up on Slashdot.
Considering I never lost any money on dot-coms though, it seems like a good investment. Yes? Or no?
I mean, their marketing guy got a story on Slashdot which is more than I can say I've ever accomplished!
Here's the original.
I also reply below your current threshold.
Is that this is probably more planning than went into 99% of the dot.coms.
I thought it said "Build a dot-com that will scratch in 24 hours." I didn't know it was possible to go out of business that fast!
Make me a friend and I'll mod you up
Any chance on shorting the stock?
You never know...
No fair reading the article.
Alex.
From the article:
* 19:00 Building the Office
* 19:30 Kick-off party
* 19:45 International expansion
* 22:00 Concepts and planning
* 02:00 Nightly coding
* 14:00 Milestone 1
* 15:00 Milestone 2
* 16:00 Milestone 3
* 16:50 Milestone 4
* 17:00 Press conference
* 18:00 Final candidate 1
* 18:30 Release Party
* 19:00 Final release
* 18:59 Launch, IPO on eBay
They forgot to apply for a patent!
Since their site is a movabletype blog, there's not much there except uninteresting prattle. But hey, never is much of any substance at dotcom web sites anyway.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Maybe the hip new thing about the dot com is that it is infact an IP address...
"Have you heard of the hot new search engine, sixty four dot forty six dot one twenty eight dot two?"
"Yeah, but it's a blatant ripoff of sixty four dot forty six dot one twenty eight dot one."
"Well, they only had 24 hours."
The ______ Agenda
Somebody please overbid me!
0x or or snor perron?!