[urlwolf]

We do it because we want it to exist. Getting past troubles in programming is much easier if you have people around, go for lunch, etc... who are pretty advanced. You are right that it's challenging to make it sustainable as a business. We are putting in serious hours (I'm fulltime on it since Nov 2013, and Kai is ramping up since he joined; he has his own clean energy startup to take care of too!). We do want Hacker Retreat to make meaningful money so it compensates the time invested, if anything. But this is no aim-for-the-moon startup.