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Show HN: Inspired by Snowpocalypse, we created OneSpeedGo last night

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19 pointsphyscab18 comments

Hi HN,

I'm a longtime reader and poster. I created this last night with my roommate. We're both developers at Grooveshark and came home to watch the 20/20 interview with Charlie Sheen and thought it was amazing. So we had a good laugh, pulled out our laptops again and put together what we think is a pretty sweet design and brand.

We're not taking this too seriously, but thought it would be a fun experience. We'll get a blog and write up everything if this proves to be more successful than we realize!

I'm literally listening to grooveshark at this very moment.

Thank you for this.

I like the name, it's much catchier than some of the other sites jumping on this meme.

On the other hand, is the general HN population okay with this becoming "Hustler News"? I ask this genuinely, as some of the entrepreneurs and investors that I've met have an aversion to make-a-quick-buck or lifestyle businesses.

Thoughts anyone?

I think "hacking the business world" is quickly becoming the new "picking locks" amongst those who fit more general definitions of "hacker".

Maybe this is a fad (like "life hacking" was a year or two back, for instance) but like all fads, some fraction of those exposed to it will really get into it and make it part of their identity. As a hacker in the general sense, I don't mind being exposed to these fads, because I know eventually one will come along that resonates me (and in the meantime, the others are interesting to watch.)

there's a balance to be struck. just like some people work a day job to fund their side projects or bootstrapped startups, some people are going to need to do a little hustle to help fund their more interesting but less profitable passions.

i don't mind occasionally reading about it, as long as it doesn't fill up the queue and the things that are presented are of good quality and informative.

This is pretty much my thought as well. I honestly found some of the writeup, marketing and statistics of the "Snowpocalypse" shirt kind of interesting. I'm all for making a buck, but not sure if the I'm much interested in hearing about this meme/shirt idea anymore. Not to discourage anyone from doing it, just not sure if it's so newsworthy. I do find that domain name an absolute winner (no pun intended), and I'd keep it for some other project in the future if I were the owner.

i'm less interested in this link. i'd be more interested in the details behind how this guy got this going, what he's doing, and how well its performing.

I agree completely. Without the background writeup, this is just free advertising on HN.

Yes, physcab promises the writeup/postmortem later, if the site proves successful. But in the mean time, leave us alone? In the past week or two I've felt the overall quality of HN take a dive, so I'm feeling a bit defensive at the moment.

I hope you have the license to use his likeness.

likeness is ok - for eg. I can take a photo of somebody and sell it for $10.

what would not be ok is a copyright and no permission or license from the owner of the original image, even if it has been altered. see the obama 'hope' image dilemma[1]

the original image in this case is © WENN[2]. op - did you get their permission? The exif[3] of the image has copyright Nikki Nelson / WENN. TinyEye finds it in a few places, and other than a few spammy blogs and forums, most seem like legit online outlets that would license.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster#...

[2] http://www.superiorpics.com/wenn_album/Charlie_Sheen_-_TV_La...

[3] http://xrl.us/sheenexif

Critique: It's not obvious when you click on the shirt size that you're being redirected to PayPal. You need some visual feedback there other than the loading / progress bar in the browser.

I wish it wasn't a white shirt. Those get too dirty far too quickly.

Just out of interest, who are you outsourcing the work to?

My roommate and I created everything last night after watching the 20/20 interview on Hulu. We're both developers at Grooveshark.

Sorry, I meant the tshirt making work, I assume you won't be printing them yourselves..?

Not meaning to hijack your post, but thank you for Grooveshark. Changed my life forever since 08.

Can anyone fill me in on the meme?

It's a reference to Charlie Sheen's recent comments about getting his show cancelled and accusations of problems with addictions and women.

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