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Re:137 Rails ideas hacked together in 48 hrs by jacquesm on Saturday August 29, 2009 @03:01PM (#793497)
It sure is! But here's a question: How do these "I hacked together 50 websites overnight" sites stack up in the long run ?

I've gone through a couple of those lists now, including a large number of 'rate my startup' type posts on HN and usually when I visit them a couple of weeks later there is either nothing left of it or the site has been taken over by spammers.

It's like with children, making them is easy, supporting them over their lifetime is hard, very hard.

So, what's the story, how many of those 'one night hacks' make it in the long run ?

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Re:137 Rails ideas hacked together in 48 hrs by zapnap on Saturday August 29, 2009 @04:48PM (#793607)
Here are a couple previous winners:

http://tastyplanner.com http://meetinbetween.us

Both are still running and doing quite well. Although no one has made a million dollars on a Rumble exit quite yet, we're looking forward to the first one :). Maybe someone will buy us a steak for organizing the event heh.

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Re:137 Rails ideas hacked together in 48 hrs by slay2k on Sunday August 30, 2009 @03:38AM (#794216)
Just curious, zapnap, but I didn't see any useful information on the site about finding partners. I saw a list of project suggestions and interested people, but none of finding partners local to your area, or how the existing teams found or knew each other..
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Re:137 Rails ideas hacked together in 48 hrs by zapnap on Sunday August 30, 2009 @07:26AM (#794366)
That's a great question. Up to this point we've really assumed that most people come to the table with a team or potential teammates already in mind. One thing we could certainly do better in the future is providing mechanisms through which teams can find collaborators (they don't need to be in their area though, of course, since the competition is completely virtual).

If you check the discussion list and do some Twitter searches you'll find that many teams advertised that they were looking for collaborators that way. Still, probably not the best mechanism for that.

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Re:137 Rails ideas hacked together in 48 hrs by thismat on Monday August 31, 2009 @02:33PM (#796445)
I commend you on this and wish I had known about it sooner. What a great way to allow people to practice so many skills and have so much fun as well.

To expand on the previous post and your post as well, some sort of "team finder" would be really cool.

Great, great job.

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