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Especially ones that are maybe a bit left of field and that the regular person might not necessarily know about.

I left my job in investment banking to start doing some freelance development and maybe start something up. As part of leaving I get to go to our USA office (in Detroit. I live and work in Sydney) and while I'm there I really want to visit Silicon Valley, most likely on the Oct 26th weekend.

As something that I read so much about, how can I get the most out of a weekend there? I'm most interested in just meeting like-minded people and hanging out, but unfortunately I don't know anyone living there.

Any tips? Cheers guys

I've been thinking about creating a website that sells screencasts for small weekend projects.

The pain I'm solving is in trying to find discrete, compact tutorials that go over an entire project from beginning to end in detail. You don't need anything to start it out, you just clone a standard git repo and watch the video (presumably completing the coding at the same time).

Each project has a desired functionality and would use a few key libraries so you can learn more about them. An example might be a instant messaging app using SocketIO, a basic dashboard using D3, a social network using Neo4j, etc.

The concept is to get people started with these technologies and then assist them in self-learning more about them after the project is finished (which they can continue to work on)

I'd release 1 project a week, on a Thu/Fri, in preparation for users to tackle it sometime on the weekend. The screencasts for a project would be in 2/3 parts and total >2hrs of content. You can purchase them for $10 each or sign up for a subscription for $30 a month.

Stack would vary, language will be mostly Javascript.

Would you guys pay for this kind of product?