Ask HN: Where do Chinese and Indian developers spent most of their time online?

31 points by testing_1_2_3_4 4 years ago | 12 comments

Do Chinese and Indian developers primarily spend most of their time online in the same places as US/European developers, or are there similar sites that I'm just not aware of? I'm thinking places like Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, etc.

abhinavk 4 years ago |

Indian Engineer here.

We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.

testing_1_2_3_4 4 years ago | |

Are there any others that are primarily Indian-centric that a US developer might not know about?

jason2323 4 years ago | | |

Not really. Indian devs afaik use the same websites Americans do (probably has to do with English being lingua franca in tech in India as well)

markus_zhang 4 years ago |

Chinese:

v2ex (close to HN) zhihu (close to quora) Stackoverflow github (joked as gayhub)

testing_1_2_3_4 4 years ago | |

> v2ex

I've heard of v2ex before, I'll sign up now. Thank you! :)

theowenyoung 4 years ago |

Chinese here, to be honest, I don’t think there are communities with an atmosphere like hn and reddit in China, including v2ex.com, zhihu.com mentioned in other replies.

I like hn, and many subreddits, but at the same time I also have language problems, So I created https://www.buzzing.cc , which collected many popular discussions in English communities, then translate all titles in Chinese and Japanese, approximately 3000 users visit per day.

balancesoggy 4 years ago |

Indian dev here. Nothing country specific. Stackoverflow mostly. Just google and whatever solves your problem. We are not community builders that work at scale.

throwaway158497 4 years ago |

As an Indian, I can tell you that we pretty much use the exact same sites as India. We are well versed in English, so for every use case you can think of, we use usual American sites. For Newspapers, we use India specific sites like hindu.com

Many of us understand American politics better than Indian politics :D

sumanthvepa 4 years ago |

As an Indian dev, I've always wondered if there would ever be a homegrown tech site. For hiring at least, sites like HasGeek are popular (at least Bangalore.) I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.

jace 4 years ago | |

I made Hasjob and Hasgeek, which are separate, but seeing as how everyone refers to Hasjob as Hasgeek, they're going to be merged in a bit.

All feedback and ideas welcome.

_448 4 years ago | |

> I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.

How is the UPI API? Is it any good?

dadavi 4 years ago |

Is the best