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Ask HN: Engineer working with rLoop needs place to crash in Bay area

14 points by erbdex ↗ HN
Amir, a Mechanical Engineer from India has run out of the little money his parents could put up(dad has a truck he rents around), and hence accommodation in the bay area. He is working with the rLoop team competing for Musk's Hyperloop One Global challenge. They also won the Hyperloop pod competition in [January this year](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-the-redditors-who-designed-a-hyperloop-pod).

He comes from a very average college as me from India, and is in the midst of launching his career as a worthy mechanical engineer. Opportunities like these are very rare in India. His coming back to India right now will put him back into a crappy job. Do you know folks who could relay-host him for a week or two?

Their garage is right next to Facebook HQ. He can't stay there because it is an incubated space. I've a friend who works in Sacramento but that's two hours, one way. Amir has excellent work ethics. Can also help the folks he lives with a little household things, but has 14 hour workdays without weekends.

His Facebook profile is here, in case you want to put a face to the name: https://www.facebook.com/whiplash.01

Know someone who can help?

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brudgers
Does he not receive a salary?
erbdex
Right now, no. The project had raised about $60K earlier via an Indiegogo campaign but they ran out of it covering core engineering and manufacturing expenses.

They would most probably be able to raise a round if they qualify the demo round ahead.

askafriend
When is the demo round and what equity does he have in the project?
whiplash_01
Hello everyone! The test weekend is in last week of October. Currently, I do not have any equity because my organization is a 501c3 in CA.
brhsiao
You should put your email on your profile so people can email you instead of randomly adding Amir on Facebook.
erbdex
Did that. Thanks!

Had added his profile so that people on the fence about hosting him would have a face to see.

ralusek
What about his circumstances would change that would cause this period of 1-2 weeks to come to an end? Is that when the Hyperloop challenge is over? Would he not need housing after that, or is he going back home aftewards?
erbdex
His circumstances would not change. We'd have to relay him for a couple of months in a week, two week cycles. Asking for a month of hosting is too much energy barrier. This is slightly working out. Got contacted by someone who's ready to host him till 15th of August.

It's like a startup. Can't see the end but you know you can't stop. =)

Would you be able to help here?