Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? 118
coondoggie writes "What do you get when you mix access to Google's ultra-fast fiber network and old fashioned grass roots business ideas? Well, in this case you'd get someone living on your couch for free for three months. This week a group calling itself the 'Kansas City Hacker Homes' launched a program that calls on the good folks of Kansas City to open up their homes to entrepreneurs and developers who would live and work there for a period of three months, rent and utility free. They have to buy their own food."
Re:Hell no (Score:3, Insightful)
Every claim in that article has already been discredited repeatedly by every party involved except two people. It was all the work of a liberal arts student trying to start a movement. "Hackers" are no different from any other group in the world.
HAHAHAHA.....no (Score:4, Insightful)
Why would anyone do this? Why would I invite a stranger to live in my house for free?
Also, what kind of startup are you doing where you need incredibly high download speeds? Seriously. There is nothing you could do which would be using such large files that this is an issue and be processable on a laptop.
Why not just a co-located server? (Score:5, Insightful)
This program is supposed to get entrepreneurs and developers access to high speed fiber, I understand that; but why do they have to live there? Not that I'd allow anyone onto my network either way, but if the end result is getting some of these awesome startups on the net with a good connection, I'd be a lot more willing to let them put a server in an out-of-the-way place in my house. I don't ask to set up a bed in my data co-location center, why do they need a bed in these houses? They can even have access to their hardware whenever they want, provided it's supervised and at an appropriate time. Also, my electricity isn't free. I'd sure like some small kind of cut from the profits (assuming they make a profit sometime).
Re:cool idea (Score:5, Insightful)
for bootstrapping kansas city's high tech industry
How? Just how many startups require ultra-fast fiber at their development site? Wherever the startup hosts their public server(s) may already have such a connection.