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TC Cribs: Inside The Escheresque Home Of Justin.tv and Socialcam

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It's really surprising how low budget these startups are. For all the press and VC money splashed around in Silicon Valley it sure looks like these guys are scraping by. A bootstrapped startup out of my house isn't looking too bad about now.

That's some fat bling rolex Justin :). Certainly not matching the ghetto office.

It's amazing that a company was borne out of some crazy guy walking around broadcasting his life... But, good on them!

While I like Justin.tv - another example of just how amateurish TechCrunch is. With such crappy copy editing one has to deal with reading their articles typically rampant with valley worship, we also get subjected to their terrible and awkward video skills.

No thanks.

I actually enjoy these videos. Where else are you gonna be able to take a peak inside valley startups like this?

Sure - but why doesn't TechCrunch invest in some polish?

would you really want a super-high production value video? that's not the feel of startups or silicon valley. it's all about being scrappy and working with what you have.

at least to me, increasing the production value would move into irony territory. i'm quite enjoying the video series as they are.

It's cut very similar to MTV Cribs, not sure what that says though...

Considering the title of the video series I believe that is the point.

I'm sorry you don't like the show. You seem to be in the minority, though.

FWIW there are some things I think we could improve on as far as polish goes (a title/intro sequence would be a start). But I'm not going to change my personality.

Don't change a thing. So weird that someone on Hacker News is arguing to overdo something.

The videos are good enough. That means they're great.

I'd leave it as is or keep it short; intro sequences are pretty tedious especially if you watch several videos one after the other.

The best thing you could do to improve this show is to do more of them, because they rock.

They don't need gimmicky intros or polish to sell them because they're interesting as hell, I love watching them and seeing how other startups are doing, especially ones that are all ghetto and scrappy like the rest of us instead of 'normal' offices.

I like them.

Are they a little rough around the edges? Yes. But aren't the software and companies we're creating from scratch also a little rough around the edges? It gets better with time as it evolves.

Some of it seems a bit staged/awkward but the majority of it seems authentic, off-the-cuff, which is good. Being able to easily pick out the staged parts is good, too.

Thanks Jason, keep them coming!

Then i would really like to never see one of these posts make hacker news ever again.

This video was an unlikeable, meandering, and largely contentless mess. If your goal is to inform hackers and geeks about interesting workspaces and/or the workspaces of real programmers, i can't say that you've achieved your purpose. If on the other hand your goal is just to bother employees with a camera and tell pointless anecdotes about yourself in a variety of settings, then i question the entire endeavor, even beyond the unpalatable packaging (cribs? seriously...?).

tl;dr: Not enough lifehacking/productivity investigation, way, way, way too much jkincaid.

Hi Jason,

I ended up going through several of the TC Cribs videos last night and really enjoyed them. Not sure why others are being so negative, but keep up the good work!

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