Opentil Blog

Late Night Eats

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:17:19 -0700

Just because you’re up late, doesn’t mean you’ve got to eat at Gourmet Heaven. See what else New Haven has to offer in the wee of the morn’.

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Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:43:36 -0700

joelzimmer: Open Until 4am That’s just how we roll...

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:58:36 -0700

joelzimmer:

Open Until 4am

That’s just how we roll here.

Disclaimer: I don’t actually talk like this

Opentil’s office hours…

The Story of Opentil

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:53:16 -0700

The story of Opentil begins in January 2010 in Tempe, Arizona. There, a ragtag group of misfit hackers began to routinely convene in one of Arizona’s two* 24-hour (sorta) coffee houses to tackle an application to the IRS for having HeatSync Labs recognized as a federal 501(c)3 non-profit organization, which it was approved for over a year later. The paperwork made a number of us hungry, but we had no way to know what restaurant would be open or if they would have wifi. We ran into the same problem so many times that I began to notice it was a problem. Digging through restaurant pages and review sites and hoping hours were being kept up-to-date or even included was becoming a repeated, noticeable nuisance and I kept looking for something that would be able to solve it. What was out there just wasn’t good enough, and I wanted something better. To my surprise, there was nothing I found in the vastness of cybersauce in 2010 devoted to answering the simple question of how late is stuff around me open ‘til?

After over a year of having to ask that question, I’ve decided to build a means to answer it.

.dh

* Xtreme Bean doesn’t close on Friday and Saturday nights. Arizona’s truly 24-hour coffee establishment is Shot in the Dark Cafe in Tucson.

startupquote: You have to solve a problem that people actually...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:11:45 -0700

startupquote:

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it’s not always a problem that they know they have, so that’s tricky.

- Joshua Schachter

blag.dh: How to Get Latitude and Longitude Coordinates From an Address Without Selling Your Soul to Google Maps

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:52:40 -0700

blag.dh: How to Get Latitude and Longitude Coordinates From an Address Without Selling Your Soul to Google Maps:

huertanix:

Google Maps provides a useful, free-of-charge means of geocoding a postal address and getting latitude and longitude information back to use for plotting markers on a Google map. Unfortunately, that mostly sums up the only thing you’d legally be allowed to do with the returned latitude and…

OH SNAP NO TIME TO THINK SUDDENLY YOU WAKE UP AND WE HAVE A LANDING PAGE

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:44:00 -0700

OH SNAP NO TIME TO THINK SUDDENLY YOU WAKE UP AND WE HAVE A LANDING PAGE:

brb coding.