dougludlow

For those of you following the Hipster story here at Hacker News, we've almost picked up 10,000 early invites in 48 hours! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093662

To speed things up, I thought it would be fun to have a little prize for the person who refers the 10,000th user.

Thanks for the shout out. Just doing what I can!

I'm afraid we can't say too much. We've applied for the Launch Conference, and have agreed not to talk about what the company does. You'll just have to wait until Feb 23rd (if we get in) to find out!

We're still underground, for the time being. We'll be expanding the alpha test soon to new cities, so we wanted to make sure there are interested users for each new city.

Its going to be awesome. Thanks for signing up!

Very cool concept - count me in!

While I agree that salary is a huge expense, rent is usually a small fraction of the salaries being paid.

In my experience, teams who work from home for an extended period of time can start to lose focus and productivity. This means it takes longer to build your product, and you end up paying a lot more in salary.

By having an office (usually only a few hundred, to a few thousand dollars a month in expense), you are able to save a lot in salary (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month), because your team will be more focused and productive.