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Rent my private airport for your hardware startup

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Hmm, October through May, snow blower included? On the plus side its probably great for focus, on the down side its going to be a haul to resupply mid-winter. Although with another outbuilding for supplies and pulling gigabit fiber from the Internet all the way out to the house, you could treat it like the Arctic stations and just work solid for 8 months.

If you fly, that's just a hop, skip, jump to another town.

Not sure what you mean "haul". It's right next to Hwy 89 and only 10 miles from Livingston.

Well they mentioned 40 minutes from Bozeman (for me that is a 'haul' just to get groceries.) but if it is that close to Livingston there used to be an awesome steak house in town.

The Paradise Valley generally receives less snow than other places in Montana. My wife and I drive a Prius year round and typically a grocery store trip is ~40 minutes round trip. We're able to take the Prius on 95% of our winter drives. This last winter was quite warm, we were flying kites outside over Thanksgiving with our extended family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Valley_%28Montana%29

Some photos of the harsh winter conditions experienced here :)

http://imgur.com/OwmFVok http://imgur.com/CcnJjFV http://imgur.com/I3pfkxO

Is this really in the spirit of a Show HN post? It's basically an advertisement to rent someone's space.

Yeah, I was also thinking about that. But at the same time who would think about a business idea for small air ports otherwise? Also not many people rent to new businesses who might end up not being able to pay a bill or two on time (or at all). So yeah, you're right. It's an ad. But that doesn't make it a worse adventure, I presume. So I actually like it despite hating to see ads on the front page.

AirBnB could have launched as "Show HN: Rent my living room for one night while in town."

Uber could have launched as "Show HN: Rent my driver for a few miles"

Hello, thanks for your feedback. I posted this because I feel like it is a very unique space/opportunity and is in the spirit of fostering startup progress. I guess many Show HN posts could be considered to be an advertisement. Usually it is an advertisement for an individual's skills or awesome ability. In this case, my wife's and my awesome ability is restoring a run-down airport facility and trying to make it into something more modern. A lot of hard work has gone into this space and I believe that this opportunity is a reflection of our hard work, just like a lot of the software projects out there. I apologize if you feel like my intent is too commercial for the subject line chosen.

https://news.ycombiinator.com/showhn.html

For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

This isn't something you've made that people can try out so it is not a Show HN.

That's correct. We've taken Show HN out of the title.

While clearly advertising this space, it manages to simultaneously be an interesting enough proposition that I'd be sad to see it removed.

It's implicit in posting anything to HN that you think it's interesting, just as it's implicit that you're showing it. That's not enough to make a post a Show HN, or every post would be.

o, man! it brings me to tears - compare all this majestic grand scale to my condo backyard patio in MV where i'm trying to build up toward ultimate goal of 2 humans carrying octocopter (and at full scale it actually would hardly fit into the patio :)

sounds like an awesome project :)

This guy is building one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqN2DqKyKtw

At current real estate prices, you can rent out the interior of that octocopter to fund its development and still have space + funding left over! :P

I was always tempted to try to AirBnb out my parking spot in SF, and put up a tent there, and see how much I could charge!

How much would it cost? Any ballpark figures you can give?

We're thinking approximately $2500/month for basic use of the hangar and house. Please contact me directly for more details.

Damn, isn't that basically SF apartment rent?

To be fair, SF apartment rent doesn't include a 5000-foot runway.

Right. So it's a great deal. Even without the runway.

EDIT: So, a few of you get together and propose a skunkworks project to your employer. Move to Montana for five months and kick some ass.

SF apartment rent for a studio perhaps. This is a house, a hanger, offices, a runway, and some metalworking supplies. How much is that in SF?

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