Very interesting project. It shows well the value of collaborators and having people in one place. It's also a very well written piece. aes256 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733968) and robinjfisher (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733913) asked a key technical question, so I'll give a little feedback on the linked page itself:

typo: Dogpatch Labs by no means normal. It’s a small, tight community of tech entrepreneurs who love to help eachother

"eachother" should be two words

I doubt it: Everything was done within 30 square feet

A bit picky here, but you may as well get it right: 30 square feet is a tiny area for a workspace: for example, a room (closet, really) measuring 5ft by 6ft would have an area of 30 square feet. I doubt that's what you meant. You probably meant that everybody was within 30 ft of everybody else, or something of this nature.