nReduce: an alliance of hackers

I think the headline is misleading. This seems to be an alliance of startup-oriented folks. Hackers would generally avoid the weasel-words and centralization: "virtual incubator" and reliance on a site that presents itself as more or less a monolith. I also don't see where investment and sponsorship fall into hacking. Computers are cheap enough that neither is really necessary to do interesting work, even if new hardware is required.<p>My guess is they said "hackers" when they meant "Hacker News readers".

It's a tiny bit frustrating that they only allow signing up via a Twitter handle. IMO,<p>Email-based signup &#62; Facebook-based &#62;&#62; Twitter-based<p>On top of that, the permissions indicate that nReduce wants to post Tweets for me. Um, no thanks.

I've joined as part of the NRS12 batch and I can't wait to collaborate and share my progress with other founders.<p>Hopefully the community will graduate some awesome startups and will give the next batch some program klout.<p>My biggest worry is that this batch works well and a number of companies raise investment and we see thousands upon thousands of startups flooding the process the next batch.<p>However I'm stoked to be part of this.<p>Manchester UK participant.

@nReduce I think this is a really nice approach and I´m pretty sure I will join the demo day. It´s a nice experiment and taking "self curing" patient communities into account, an evolutionary and self organized community can work really good.<p>Hint: The more you want to be like YC, the less you will be like YC. nR is nR, give it it´s own shape in the communication.<p>and... thank you for integrating the "Follow Discussion" Button. I just updated the git right here. <a href="https://github.com/jermaink/hnfollowbutton" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jermaink/hnfollowbutton</a><p>Renamed from "Follow Discussion" from "View Discussion" which makes more sense. Also some compatibility issues solved.

I run Startup Riot (startupriot.com) and we'll be in Seattle on August 8th for our event. I would love to figure out a way to have nReduce teams attend/participate/present at our event. Joe or whoever can hit me up if you guys are interested. @sanjay or hit the contact form on our site. I would have pinged you guys directly but there isn't an easy way to do that on your site. Regardless - good luck with the first class. More startups making progress can't be a bad thing.

Is this open to individuals? I've got a ton of ideas, and I'm a hacker. I just need some help with being able to leave my current job.

What does the team behind nReduce get out of it? Deal flow lead bounty?<p>Not trying to be cynical I'd just like to know what the incentives are other than "let's just be awesome".<p>Apologies if it was explained somewhere, I did look but didn't see anything obvious.

I think this is a neat idea, and I'd love to try it. It seems a bit odd to hold meetings at a bar, but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker.<p>But sadly, due to random bad luck I can't do it: my Tuesday evenings are spoken for. (It's one of the very few times during the week that I have a fixed schedule. Let's call it a sanity preservation activity.) If nReduce was on, say, Wednesday evening (or Tuesday morning), I'd sign up.<p>If the expectation is for people to take a leave of absence (or quit) from their job, anyway, then I would have scheduled it during the day, as most extracurricular activities (IME) are in the evenings.

So how does this work for remote teams that would miss a (full) week? Just update the next week with what shipped?<p>I am planning on attending a conference at the end of July (BSides Las Vegas/DEFCON, for those wondering), which would probably take me completely out of the running for shipping <i>anything</i> that week.<p>I am still very interested, but have other responsibilities as well. How would this work?

Toronto, Canada needs a hug over here. Any teams or members willing to partner-up so that we can rock this baby across the finish line ?

Signed up, in St. Louis. I can get more teams signed up locally. I'd appreciate any input on how a team farther from the primary tech hubs should take advantage. I figure either we can host a dinner with a few other local teams casually and try to make it out to another Demo Day. Thoughts?

Oh, so this is what happened to NCombinator. I initially thought this was something else very similar.

I'm most curious about the role mentors will play in nReduce. From what I understand, mentorship is the secret sauce at YC and TechStars. It also seems like the hardest type of person to attract to a fledgling operation (compared to hackers and investors).

Registered from Bangalore, India. Haven't seen anyone from the subcontinent replying to this post.If there are any, we can start a group here or head down to Singapore once a month for the tuesday dinners. Tiger airways has cheap fares.

When you say "Ship every week " what does it mean ? Is it a feature ? Can a bug fix be considered a "ship for a week" ? . Are there any parameters on how you decide someone shipped this week

Quick correction to the how it works page - Singapore is not in China.

Application form doesn't seem to do anything (maybe it shut off the day before it starts?). Clicking "submit" just takes you to the top of the page. No contact form to complain to. :(

Just signed Curvio up for it. We're already launched, but we have a half dozen new features/products to launch this summer, so hopefully this helps us stay on track even better! :)

Interesting idea! But I can't understand the practical usage of it. We delivery what we do to our customers, and get feedback, why should we deliver it to bunch of hackers? :)

I just launched last week and still have lot more to do. Can you describe How it might work out with demoday, meetups etc with East coast or folks not in the valley.

I tried to sign up a few weeks ago, didn't get a response.

If there's a Boston area dinner, I'm interested.

For those of us bootstrapping while holding jobs, is it ok to not be full time for this as long as we are shipping?

Sounds very interesting, but I may not be able to join this summer. Is it also going to be biannual?

Can I be a startup and a mentor?

Great idea. Anyone else signing up from Zurich?

Since somebody has to ask stupid questions -- what if I launched a new, different product every week?<p>I get how confusing that might look at demo day, but could one 'graduate' doing things that way?

Sounds fun. I have a great idea but I'm still flying solo, looks like you need a team