Dear Hacker News,
I'm curious about how groups have successfully installed sensor networks around a city. Assume that money isn't the issue--you've got 1,000 sensors bought and paid for, and now you want to place them in public areas. What's an effective way to go about this?
I recently read the 4-hour work week and came away a mix of excited, entertained, and annoyed at Ferriss' douchyness. The one thing it did open my eyes to, though, was outsourcing work to India. You can get Indian outsourcing firms to do everything from making appointments to writing grants (god forbid!) to writing code, all for unthinkably cheap rates by US standards. What I'm curious about is if there's a place for this kind of outsourcing in a software startup. It seems like there must be a number of simple, repetitive tasks you could offload, from profiling your users to gathering info on similar businesses.
Does anybody do this? Has anybody tried this?
