$350? I'd like to at least get a peek at what's going to go on that day before sinking that kind of money into this.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you stating that the price of the conference is irrelevant and that one should only consider the time investment. If so, I disagree. Although $350 might be negligible to some, it is not to most people. The price of the ticket is probably going to be cost-prohibitive to most, and certainly elevates the decision of purchasing one out of the realm of triviality. To most people $350 is a major expense that requires thought, and to many, it's an expense that might prove prohibitive.
To the overwhelming majority of people, money and not time is limiting factor in their lives.
Why spend 350 dollars on this vs something else would be rather interesting point to make.
> To the overwhelming majority of people, money and not time is limiting factor in their lives.
Sure, but this site's primary audience is not made up of the overwhelming majority of people. An average HN member has more money than time and likely wouldn't be using their personal money to attend anyway.
$350 is about an hour and a half of work, at $215 per hour. That's chump change. Most significant conferences are about $300, such as ConvergeSE which happened just a couple weeks ago.
Dropbox knows that people will buy tickets because they believe in Dropbox, and then Dropbox will make it awesome. Then everyone will know that when you've got a company that does things right, you can trust them with a tiny percentage of a typical webshop's daily paycheck, which they already knew anyway. And if $350 seems like a lot per person, when you add up all the costs involved it's really not that much. Money adds up quickly when a conference is done right. Most conferences pay a full-time employee for months just to make sure that the wifi won't melt under the load of hundreds of conference goers. There are a huge number of things to think about and make sure that everything goes right.
I'm shocked at this thread. Utterly shocked. Someone else actually complained that the three letters DBX are already taken. Come on! Every possible three or four letter acronym is taken. This thread is crazy. There is nothing of value here, at all, period. Not sure what happened to HN here.