$99 is generally a really good deal for a conference. Only people like Paul Graham can put on stuff like Startup School for free.

This was organized by a group of Seattle Hackers who are just trying to do a good thing. No ulterior motive. No goal of profit. No hustle for sponsors. I know the people putting it on-- they are decent chaps... And I know a couple of the speakers (in fact, I might be on a panel).

WTF is the point of attacking the event?

"Like Startup School, but more expensive and with people you haven't heard of!"

Six Hour Startup runs monthly free events on every Second Saturday of the month her were we build really great cool projects like timelope.com, poormikes.org. (our next project is on May 10th.

The conference is being run as close to at cost as possible. This isn't comdex, and we have a huge number of college student discount admissions.

The goal of the event isn't to have a bunch of famous people lecture at you, (although we have some really cool seattle based speakers attending) its to give you the hands on tools you need to build a great startup. At the end of the day you will have a hackers guide to getting your company up and running.

Yeah, don't mind my snark -- you guys are doing good work, keep it up!

Apples and oranges.

They don't have SUS speakers (who does?) and they charge a small fee. So what?

Sounds like a good thing to me.

Yeah, but...I didn't go to Startup School for the speakers. I went to Startup School to meet the people who go to Startup School.

I'm not going to say anything bad about this group, but I'm not likely to pay for a one-day conference to learn how to incorporate and keep ledgers. Those topics aren't served well by the format.

If I lived in Seattle, I'd definitely go just to meet people. Probably not for out of towners, though.

At least half of the people I met there were from outside of the bay.

Anyway, perhaps Bay-area residents never lack for motivation or meetups with liked-minded people, but for me, that aspect was far more important than the content of the talks.

Infinitely more expensive, in fact.

SS wasn't really free for the most of us. In my case - Air Travel: $180, Hotel: $140, Car: $30 etc ... (I'm not going to make a lame "priceless" joke here)

Think of the expenses of the dudes from UK!

Gee, the people from Sevenhourstartup.com are going to be pissed when they hear about this.

Six? Seven's the number, man!

Sorry, been reading reddit too much. Seriously, it sounds cool, and if I was anywhere near Seattle I'd go.

I'm looking forward to this event. As an entrepreneur just starting out, I'm hoping this event will help me learn more of the basics of running my own company, and help me to understand the day-to-day of the startup world.

I've got to say I've learned a lot just reading Hacker News and the articles referenced here, but having in-person events to go to helps a lot.

Sounds like a great event! I think some News.YC users, many attendees of the most recent Startup School, were reacting to the purposely chosen words "Startup School" in the submission title, which begged for a comparison.

I will be there! Will be great for local startups to get some great information on how to form a company, building it up, etc.

This conference sounds awesome. As an efficiency consultant, I can't think of anything better than getting all your business basics taken care of in a single day!

This comment sounds suspicious. As a long-time News.YC reader, I can't think of anything more obviously sockpuppetish than a newly created account whose first comment is a breathless puff for an obscure conference!

I know this person and the people doing the conference and trust them both. Feel free to contact me directly nathan (at) npost (.) com if you have any questions.

Thanks for your opinion, Person Who Coincidentally Happens To Have Exactly The Same Name As One Of the Conference Organizers.

(Update: Incidentally, it took me a while to find out the names of the organizers from the website. Which is odd -- most conference organizers love to let you know exactly who they are.)

Not really when you realize that we are a small group of hackers trying to put on an event. I personally try to let my work speak for itself.

The goal of this conference isn't for us to become rich and famous, its to get us the answers we need for bring our startups on line.

This is going to be a small event less of hopefully a 100 people. We are trying our best to put it on for as close to cost, without have a huge bankroll of money to do it with. Most of the 'startup' events in Seattle and Silicon Valley assume that you have many thousands of dollars to spend on their event we don't. This is a total bootstrap by people eating the dog food.

Any questions, complaints, whatever about this feel free to send them to me. Rob Eickmann roberte3@gmail.com