This seems very sketchy. Give us your laptop and we promise we won't keep it...

Website copyright is out of date by two years... And the website has been online since then. https://crt.sh/?q=colaptop.pages.dev

> Thank you for your interest. Please submit the form below and we'll get back to you within 2 working days.

> - Team @ CoLaptop.com

Also colaptop.com is not even registered anymore. If I had to guess the pages.dev site stayed up but the domain and email are nowhere.

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kube-system an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Website copyright is out of date by two years... And the website has been online since then. https://crt.sh/?q=colaptop.pages.dev

That's exactly what it should be then. A copyright notice lists the year of publication. Not the current year.

> A proper copyright notice consists of three elements: a © symbol, the year of publication, and the copyright owner’s name.

https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/what-is-copyright-notice/

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0xbadcafebee 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1) You don't have to keep copyrights up to date (and in fact you don't have to put them at all), 2) Every single startup i've seen on HN is sketchy af. Racking laptops in a cage at a Hetzner DC is probably the least sketchy product i've seen here.

And honestly, not a terrible idea, I have old laptops that would work as a VPS. $7/month for somebody to host a public server for me, and not on my crappy residential isp? All I have to lose is an old laptop I haven't touched in 5 years? Sign me up

(they do need a real domain before i'll give them money tho, lol)

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JVIDEL 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The premise was kinda dumb, wouldn't be surprised if its just a scam.

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PaulHoule an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So many people want to believe in this sort of thing for various reasons that I get fatigued at the very thought of trying to explain to people who believe in it earnestly that it is not a good idea. (e.g. commercial hosting services are really competitive; for a long time the cost of computing has been going down over time though I don't know if that is reversing because we've hit the end of the real Moore's law [1] or if it is a temporary blip)

[1] the motor behind it is cost reduction, once that stops it stops because we can't afford it anymore!

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kube-system an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The title says PoC, so I presume it's a PoC.

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tosti 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

More likely a prank.

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kube-system an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's most likely testing the waters for a real offering. It's not that weird. Many colo data centers already have policies about hosting laptops because it's already something that happens. It just isn't common and usually isn't for hosting servers.

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type0 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would like to put my Raspberry Pi Pico in colocation, would it work?

	▲	QuantumNomad_ 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are a number of places that colocate normal Raspberry Pi. https://lowendbox.com/blog/little-machines-in-big-datacenter... I am sure that some of them either already colocate Pico ones too, or are willing to do so if asked.

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whilenot-dev 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Website copyright is out of date by two years...

Can you explain how a copyright can be "out of date by two years"?

I always thought the copyright notice should reflect the year of creation, and that it's actually bad (from a legal POV) to always show the current year through scripting.

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justsomehnguy 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Website copyright is out of date by two years

It's fixed now.

And someone bought the .com domain: https://crt.sh/?id=25447880244

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What if it’s a compute Ponzi scheme?