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needwant.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
The blog of the Mod Notebooks team (formerly Draft), with founders writing about bootstrapping, Kickstarter, manufacturing in China, and running a startup outside San Francisco.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend its posts on leaving San Francisco for St. Louis and on cancelling their Kickstarter, and cite its about page and photos.
22HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
25stories submitted
1.4Kstory points
8 years agolast shared
2013people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb5 people · 583 points · first shared 2013 · 373 comments on HN
- 2Mod Notebooks’ Launch3 people · 49 points · first shared 2014 · 22 comments on HN
- 3Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco To St. Louis2 people · 180 points · first shared 2014 · 198 comments on HN
- 4Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves2 people · 111 points · first shared 2014 · 72 comments on HN
- 5Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco2 people · 103 points · first shared 2014 · 69 comments on HN
- 6From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k2 people · 80 points · first shared 2013 · 43 comments on HN
- 7How our side project generated $51,365 in 60 days2 people · 29 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur1 people · 98 points · first shared 2016 · 63 comments on HN
- 9How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,4501 people · 71 points · first shared 2014 · 31 comments on HN
- 10The Results Of My Year-Long Physical Product Experiment1 people · 58 points · first shared 2013 · 23 comments on HN
- 11I Rented Apartments To Rent Out On Airbnb For Profit1 people · 18 points · first shared 2013 · 5 comments on HN
- 12We're Building Our Next Product Publicly1 people · 10 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13The Secret Community of 20 Kids That Spawned 5 YC Founders1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Negotiating our acquisition of Jarvis for $15k1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · 4 comments on HN
- 15Making Great Stuff Is The Best Way To Meet Great People1 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
gkoberger · 2014-05-21
For those of you disappointed by this article and want a great article about leaving SF, try this:
http://needwant.com/p/im-moving-san-francisco-st-louis/
ePierre · 2016-03-22
From http://needwant.com/about/ :
> Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native…
> David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York…
> Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC…
The only one who's not from the US is
> Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK…
Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't know how to write in their own language?
b0ner_t0ner · 2016-03-22
The Hong Kong one is most definitely Ovolo Southside:
http://needwant.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/17.jpeg
http://www.35mm.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hong_Kong_06-1024x68…
fatbat · 2014-03-24
I never knew Mod was Draft until I read this linked article.
http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-project-ou…
While reading that I was wondering, and not accusing Mod team here but just a thought, what is stopping people from using Kickstarter this way (to gauge demand) deliberately? Launch a campaign and yank when it is successful to pursue larger profits?
AliCollins · 2014-03-17
The original idea (then called Draft) which went to Kickstarter mentioned OCR (see http://needwant.com/p/draft-from-zero-to-kickstarter-in-5k/) but I don't see anything about it on the current website.
staunch · 2013-11-23
Fly to Vegas and put it all on an apartment.
http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
patcoll · 2013-11-22
Promote the hell out of it on Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News (done). Apply to speak at conferences and go speak about it. There are plenty of PHP conferences to choose from. Get your employer to pay for the trips.
Other ideas for passive income:
http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
dangerlibrary · 2014-02-14
There's a line: if it becomes more profitable to rent at Airbnb's nightly rates than at monthly / long-term rates, property investors will then drive down long-term housing supply, increasing property values and monthly rents.
Airbnb's claim is that there is no evidence suggesting that the line has been crossed, so the only impact of their service is that existing landowners / renters get to line their pockets a bit.
They don't have a leg to stand on if you see people successfully investing in property to rent exclusively at short-term rates, which has started to happen in some markets [1][2]. I'm tempted to cheekily link to their own blog post here indicating that 13% of their NYC hosts are doing exactly this.
And don't even get me started on the fact that while looking for a place to live, landlords have justified their insane asking rate by telling me that the previous tenant rented out a spare room on Airbnb.
1. http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
2. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/20/home-sharing-site-san-fran…