Are you planning to open source some or all of the code of your site etc.? Was thinking about a similar service in my country (Germany) and that would obviously help a lot.
Hey BvS, Rey from One Degree here. We definitely are thinking about open-sourcing the code so that it can be available anywhere/everywhere. We don't have the capacity to do that right now, but stay tuned in the future! Or maybe we should just expand to somewhere in Germany for our next site?? That'd be sweet.
I agree. It's the content and community that makes what we do worthwhile, not the code. We've got an API that anyone can build on: data.1deg.org (that documentation is not fully up to date, but when I catch my breath after YC I'll update it).