I'm a student working on a software (education + ML related) startup idea with a couple friends, and ideally, we want to spend our summer working in SF.<p>We don't need much money -- we just want money for rent -- we don't need to buy equipment, we don't need to pay ourselves, and we're good with eating PB&J sandwiches for the summer. We just want to be living and working together, and in SF, if possible.<p>We don't want to give up equity, so we've applied to some fellowships, like Lightspeed Venture Parters and Summer@Highland. But these kinds of zero equity fellowship-style programs seem pretty rare.<p>Any ideas on how to be in SF for the summer? Anyone know of any other programs that we should look into?<p>We're doing our own research on this, but I thought I'd ask HN in case anyone here had any advice to share.
Since you're restricting yourself so much, you don't have many options. One opportunity, although a shitty one, is to find a 24-hr gym with treadmills and get a membership, make a platform for your laptop that can hang onto one of the treadmills to use as your work 'desk'(can't get kicked out if you're 'exercising'), you now have a place to work/shower/bathroom, and then you can sleep in your car (which is probably illegal there so find a good parking spot!).<p>I guess it just comes down to how set on being in SF and not giving up equity you are.
Since you didn't mention it, YC has a Fellowship program.<p><a href="https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/</a>
Why SF? It's a pretty expensive place in terms of rent and it doesn't sound like this is the kind of thing that requires a specific location. Without a really good reason, I wouldn't want anyone spending money I'd invested in that way.
Rent is the last thing fellowships want to pay for. They'll give up a living stipend but they certainly want the money to be used on technical resources.