Agreed, San Francisco is probably the worst place to be if you want to bootstrap.

I don't think so. There are so many early adopter, visionary customers here you can sign up on spec to pay you to develop your product.

Assuming your product appeals to the type of consumers or businesses that inhabit San Francisco.

What kind of businesses aren't in the Bay Area that you'd want to target?

Off the top of my head: large banks, insurance companies, automotive, military contracting, commodity agriculture & energy.

[Edit] Actually, this made me think, what precisely is in the bay area that I'd want to target. The obvious answer is companies whose major priorities are VC and/or other acquisition events and the ecosystem they create.

I would take SF over Antarctica.

whoops, need to fix that.

Basically nothing aside from the branding. They do however give you stickers to help with tagging.

Does the software automatically recognize the stickers? That would be helpful, I suppose.

It's coming ;-)

Awesome, I'd love to order from the UK. Maybe add an "email me when available" field to your site for visitors from outside the US so you can capture them, as I know I'm going to forget in a few days, only to vaguely remember in a year or so.

Where exactly is it coming to? I just sent you guys an email asking about this :)

I'm in Australia and my girlfriend is in Turkey + Russia and I think we'd both love to use this (at least try it).

They are recycled :-)

That was an illustrator from Mino Monsters. We filmed in their office.

Thanks!

I don't think that get's 100% lost. Just look at @dunn's posts on Medium. He's got a following through those.

I published my first article on Medium over the weekend (https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/a27e01e84fac). It got it's first bump from HN, but 17k+ reads following was from Medium's readership. It also got featured on LifeHacker. I don't think they would have found it on my own blog.

Honestly, I didn't see any compelling reasons in that article not to use Medium. My post got it's initial bump from Hacker News, but then everything following has been due to Medium already having a built in readership. If I posted this to my own blog, sure HN would have driven the same amount of traffic. But I don't have a readership like Medium. There's something to be said about Medium's writing tools as well. I found myself enjoying writing again using their system. It's very clean and focused. Maybe I wouldn't have produced as good of an article without it.

This wasn't meant to advocate profiting from selling the stuff you no longer use. An earlier draft even pointed out this would only be possible the first time you sell all the extra crap you own.

I think people are getting hung up on me saying you should do this too. I assumed readers would intelligently apply the article to their own situation. I recognize everyone's situation is different.

The point here was that I didn't re-buy everything, only the essentials I really needed or missed. I ended up having a lot less in the end, and only things I would use.