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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."
Half serious, half art project
Half-stupid. The sad part is, someone is going to buy into this heap.
Impulse is a scary force in human nature.
One of the harder things to do within 24 hours seems to actually get a dot com address.
On that same note... do people go bankrupt in the next 48 hours? It's not really a dotcom business without an amazing fireball of destruction as investors realize that an internet operated toaster isn't going to make any money.
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
I say raise the bar.
Where is the 10 million dollar data center, corporate jet, and 5 million lines of worthless code?
You know, this isn't such a bad idea. What if (and that's a big "what if") a bunch of technologists and business people from various walks really did attempt to all take a vacation about the same time, then worked non-stop on a new business for a week? What would they be able to produce? Would they be able to create any business relationships? Perhaps even secure some form of long term funding inside that period?
The real problem I see is the number of people. If it did work, and everyone decided to stay with the business (i.e. give their two-week with their current employer), what would their burn rate be? At 50,000-75,00 per employee, you could be potentially burning the better part of a million dollars a month. And would the results of the company be maintainable? (The pace definitely wouldn't be.) Interesting thought exercise, anyway.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
If it was a true dot com, it'll be dead in another 24 hours.
--Dave
We're beta testing their web-based application for them!
Zoeith
It's a joke/art project.
part of the 'dotcom' thing is to NOT HAVE THOSE THINGS before kicking off.
however, who knows, they might have invented something brilliant in the 24hours. but they started with a clean table, which was also part of the 'thing' in this project.
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
If only I had mod points. This is so funny.
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Whatever happened to ESR saying he wasn't going to let his new found wealth go to his head. What a pompous ass. Reminds me of a fortune I got the other day (maybe even at the bottom of a
"Don't be humble... you're not that great."
Am I missing something? Why are you changing your browser's default background color for webpages? Is there significant need for this? To change the default, then whine about pages that don't display properly?