Any tips for living cheaply in SF?
pz: Living on $1k in the city sounds rough.  You'll probably be so stressed for money and busy that you won't even be able to enjoy it.  If you're focus right now is building your website, don't distract yourself with contract work and city life.  I would recommend just staying with your folks and getting down to it.  Being in the city won't make your website any more successful.But if you're dead set on coming out here, I would recommend  looking in the east bay or the peninsula.  Stay close to a BART or caltrain station so you can get into the city easily for networking events & to meet with clients.If you really want to live in SF proper i would recommend looking for a room in the Tenderloin (despite its rep, its a great place to live, i loved it... lots of cheap food and close to everything) or in the southern or eastern part of the mission.