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Start and finish an app in one day

browseology.posterous.com

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Inviting all hacker news readers to join us in a very casual and relaxed day of creating a brand new app in a single day.

We will setup a chatterous room, amongst other fun things to keep us all interested.

Local hackers are welcome to join us (SF Bay Area).

You guys at posterous seem to be mini-app geniuses. If I lived in SF I'd definitely be there.

Browseology is Joe, not Posterous, that's Garry and Saichin. Browseology is just blog on Posterous.

Oh yeah, just to be clear, we (me and Joe), host our blog over on Posterous. Didn't mean to be confusing there!

Posterous guys get the credit for all good things that happen under posterous.com subdomains. ;-)

I'll buy Garry and Sachin a beer for their troubles and borrowed fame! =)

Oh, sorry about that.

Quick suggestion so idiots like me won't get confused again: maybe edit the first comment in this thread and put a "this is us: http://www.browseology.com/ " in at the bottom?

well, it's really not about "us". We just wanted to do something fun =)

and, yeah, I'll make sure it's not too confusing right off the bat.

Where are you guys in the SF Bay Area? Bay Area is a big place, for all we know, you could be located in East Palo Alto.

we are over in Berkeley, though we might just all meet in San Francisco if there's a big enough crowd at a cafe or some other nice venue with wifi =) The location will have to be tentative, though I'll pick a spot by tomorrow afternoon so you guys have a heads up.

If anything, we can just do this remotely on Chatterous. In future events, if this becomes popular enough, we should probably setup a venue for it =)

+1 for doing it in person vs chat. much more impact to meet people as far as future connection.

also - is it one single app being created or everyone teaming up in small groups or?

we will all be teaming up in small groups, groups which can be made prior or during the brainstorm sessions in the morning.

We won't be holding this at a venue this time, we didn't know the turnout would be so big, and don't have enough time to really make it work out.

Next time (which will definitely happen) we will organize a venue (suggestions welcome) and try to get those around the globe to organize within their regions as well.

I like these things as a great way to meet fellow hackers, but every time I've done this (I've only done 3), I've seen the same thing happen. People get excited about the app while there, but there seems to be little follow through afterwards. Even if you do manage to finish the app (which is hard but not impossible), the point is to have a successful app.

There is often no marketing or promotion of the app or even just adding new features. For once I'd like to see an app come out of one of these that takes off. But for that to happen there needs to be follow through and constant work that goes in after these things and not just during the meeting.I think it would make a great success story and get more people interested in doing these things.

If anyone in the Washington DC area wants to take a crack, shoot me an email.

Great idea, totally organize your own get togethers! be sure to join the chatroom on Saturday =)

The next meetup is this weekend, I think, so if you want to run something like this around DC, that's a good bit of your audience.

Where does one get information on these meetups? I'm in MD area, working in NOVA, but this is the first I've heard of it.

Want to take over the planning for the NOVA meetups once Rusty moves?

I think he found someone based upon his last email. I'm also MD based so its not totally convenient, but if he still needs someone to help takeover I could help out.

I'm also MD based (10 mins south of B'more), but that meet up was the closest thing to me. Email me if you want to chat.

Saturday's tough, but I'll probably be hacking Sunday if anyone around wants to meet up.

Official chatroom for the event: http://www.chatterous.com/onedayapp/

Thank you chatterous for helping us with the mixup with the rooms.

Announcement: This will be a completely virtual event! Please join the Chatterous chatroom to participate. We will post up at a cafe in SF, so if you guys are in SF send me a message. Next time around we will definitely organize a venue (if you have one in mind, please let me know) since there is such a big outcome.

Thanks to all! See you early in the morning!

I'm wondering what kind of tools you are using for such a fast tempo. Are we headind towards automagically generated web applications?

Everyone probably has their own set of tools, but the tools can be used for both LARGE and small projects. Usually using popular frameworks for web, or just doing quick and easy adobe AIR projects would be fairly quick as well.

Web applications could be faster to build, mainly because there is probably a ton of community support and plugins.

I'm thinking of either using PHP and Smarty Templates, or Ruby on Rail.

This sounds like fun. It's the ICFP competition (www.icfpcontest.org) of webapps!

The official start time will be 10am PST | 1pm EST, but everyone is invited to start as early as possible! Those east coasters might get a head start ;)

Great idea. I won't be able to participate in it even virtually (have other plans), but it's inspiring. Maybe next time. Good luck to all and have fun!

we will definitely do this again, and in a more organized manner. This one will probably all virtual for this round. We will organize some venue and such in the future.

If people want to team up, check the chatterous chat on Saturday! come even if you don't have an idea, it'll be a big brainstorm session.

The official voice chat: https://voxli.com/onedayapp

Try to keep it clean ;)

Reminds me of Album-A-Day:

http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/

We have about 10 applicants already! A few YC company reps will pop into the chatroom and hopefully take part.

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