I've been thinking about this for a long time now.
The idea is sound, but I really think what it comes down to ultimately is People. If you have a bunch of the right people working together, previously difficult things suddenly become possible.
My idea revolves like yours around shared infrastructure. I would like a physical space, with servers, domain registration, payment gateways, and networking already set up, where groups of people can congregate for a long weekend of hacking. But to really produce quality work, it depends on the quality of the people, and the passion they have for the particular project.
Perhaps with enough different groups congregating often enough, eventually good ideas can take shape and good work can be done. I feel that creation of a platform may be aiming too high, I would be happy for just any type of startup to be created out of it.
So I think the idea has merit in some shape or form, but to my knowledge it hasn't been successfully done before.
The idea is sound, but I really think what it comes down to ultimately is People. If you have a bunch of the right people working together, previously difficult things suddenly become possible.
My idea revolves like yours around shared infrastructure. I would like a physical space, with servers, domain registration, payment gateways, and networking already set up, where groups of people can congregate for a long weekend of hacking. But to really produce quality work, it depends on the quality of the people, and the passion they have for the particular project.
Perhaps with enough different groups congregating often enough, eventually good ideas can take shape and good work can be done. I feel that creation of a platform may be aiming too high, I would be happy for just any type of startup to be created out of it.
So I think the idea has merit in some shape or form, but to my knowledge it hasn't been successfully done before.