Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose

Posted by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @04:57PM
from the self-post dept.

We have a room open at our awesome hacker mansion in San Jose. The house is ~4000 sqft, on an _enormous_ lot. Spend all your time coding? Do it with deer and wild turkey hanging out by your side. This is the most serene hacker house you've ever seen.

The house is 4bed, 4bath, and filled with hackers. Right now the population consists of the founders of Tinfoil Security (http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) and Welcu (http://www.welcu.com), both companies backed by 500startups. Genders: 1 Female, 3 Male, and 1 Female part-time; we don't care about your gender. :)

The room is 14x12 (large for anywhere in this area), enormous kitchen with an island and Viking professional stove (and griddle!), restaurant-sized fridge, washer/dryer in house, and of course, 20mbit internet via Comcast. 4 decks, grill outside. And the views you have to see to believe.

It's a new house, and the culture is new too, so we're looking for anyone who is personable, clean, and can contribute to the culture and shape it into whatever it will be.

To get in touch, just email me: [email protected]

Photos of living space, view, room, and (your own) bathroom: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3010745/2/4055Soelro/Room%20Available?h=d544bc

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by agi20dla on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:09PM (#2829606)

This place is pretty sweet! I know Borski personally and he'll make sure you are taken care of and that everyone's happy. He's a man of drive, passion, and integrity. If you ask nicely, he'll make you pancakes in the morning. :)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:13PM (#2829618)

<3 pancakes.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:02PM (#2829581)

Price is $1100, utilities split amongst the rooms in the house. :)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by dlss on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:48PM (#2829922)

sounds like the 1 M on his own is over paying...

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:41PM (#2830177)

Bigger room, and we split utilities evenly.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by etherael on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:30PM (#2830154)

Potentially silly question, but is that 1100 per month or per week? Not specified anywhere and the duration varies by nation, and I'm not sure what it is for the US?

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:38PM (#2830174)

Per month.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by SkyMarshal on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:09PM (#2829805)

4br, with 4.5 people currently occupying it? Where's the open room? (I'm not in the market, but clarification might help. g'luck!)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:42PM (#2829905)

1M & 1 part-time F in one room. 1 M & 1 F in another room. 1 M in a third.

Fourth is open. :)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by icco on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:50PM (#2829737)

Aww, I wish you guys had posted this a few weeks ago, I would have loved to live with borski. But alas, I just signed a lease.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by yankoff on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:44AM (#2830915)

How far you are from the caltrain station? I have to commute to Menlo Park every day ;)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:05PM (#2833550)

About a 5-10min drive. There is a bus that takes you there, also. :)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by malandrew on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:06PM (#2829790)

I'm looking for a hacker house in the Bay Area at the moment, but I wish there were more hacker houses in a more reasonable price range. $1100 is a lot for anyone trying to bootstrap and keep their burn rate as low as possible.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by jackowayed on Sunday July 31, 2011 @07:02PM (#2829960)

$1100 is cheap for the Bay Area ... You might be able to do better in Oakland/Berkeley. Not ideal, but more and more things are in SF these days, and they're a quick BART ride from SF.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by malandrew on Sunday July 31, 2011 @07:28PM (#2830031)

$1100 is cheap for a nice room or studio with your own bath, but there certainly are many options cheaper than $1100. I've stayed with friends spending $400-600 in SF in the Mission, Downtown and Tenderloin areas, and these aren't people that have been living there for years under rent control. A search on Craigslist shows a lot of options in SF for under $800.

Hacker Houses of course have the added benefit that they are also a productive place to work and thus don't require you to pay for an open desk in a co-working space.

Artist houses are a much better example of how low you can go insofar as living costs are concerned. I wish there were more hackers that were interested in the approach artists take.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by fido on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:41PM (#2829903)

All of these people are awesome and $1100 is cheap to live with them!! Great place!

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by rdl on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:26PM (#2830139)

That's a great place -- $1100 is a quite reasonable price for something like that.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by perivamsi on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:04PM (#2830534)

Does anyone have a similar hacker house in Manhattan? I am looking for a place and would love to be a part of such a culture.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by WordSkill on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:30PM (#2830153)

I would love to set up a Hacker House in Thailand.

I'm just not sure how much actual coding would get done.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by helloxander on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:01PM (#2829773)

Wow that's a nice place.

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by borski on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:09PM (#2829801)

Yup, you should live there. :)

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Re:Tell HN: Room open in Hacker House in San Jose by temuze on Monday August 01, 2011 @03:34AM (#2831160)

Why doesn't someone just make a hackerhouse.com?

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