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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.
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!
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