Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups? I found some old and inactive meetup and eventbrite groups but are there any in person? I went to a hackathon event before covid that was incredible and I was hoping similar "energy" still existed. |
Didn't realise the whole thing ended up not happening at all in the end ...
looking forward to the next one!
Details + rsvp: https://meetu.ps/e/LqXw7/gz2nM/i
I have created a Hacker News Meetup for Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-zxkdpjmb/
It looks like enough people are interested in different parts of the Bay Area that we can alternate meetups in SF and in South Bay/Peninsula.
If anyone will like to help out or can donate space to meetup, please email me - my profile here has my contact details.
Here's meetup link for more info: https://www.meetup.com/valpo-hacks-meetup/. If anyone has questions, my email is my HN username @gmail.com.
I have a small group of founders I could likely convince to join. Anybody have any venues they would recommend? I've found Optimism to be pretty great
Not going to lie, as someone currently living in Seattle, the lack of people from here requesting a meetup is the most unsurprising thing in this thread.
Message the organizer and post it here too please.
Unicorn start up and all that jazz. Likely they will want someone to give a short spiel.
I can host!
Sounds like we could take over Discovery Park and call it good. :)
How much personal opportunity cost is acceptable before it becomes worth using a platform you don't like...?
Remember that even if it your life's sole goal to eliminate the use of that platform worldwide, you will probably achieve more if you take every opportunity possible, including those gatekept by the platform you don't like...
There is no ideological reason behind it.
Id love to hear what startup folks in the panhandle are working on.
Meet up is the experts exchange of social planning.
Is it weird to post this from a throwaway acct?
e.g, the Tokyo meetup is still a thing, met back in July: https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/138928
Please send me an email here! jingxiangmo.public@gmail.com
it wishes it was Austin. ;-)
You and everyone else has the same opinion, thus nobody pays.
Add lots of tech people to the mix, a lot of whom would already be a bit predisposed and comfortable with such behaviors, and it gets even worse. Not trying to cast shade on anyone here, I am one of those "predisposed" people myself.
Over the past 4 years, almost all of my closest friends left the city (3 non-locals, 1 who was born and raised here; out of those 4, I only knew 1 non-local prior to moving here) and moved to NYC, and they all couldn't be happier with their decision, years later.
Trust me, I love my alone time and can go without interacting with people outside for days without feeling bad about it at all. But even for me, Seattle feels more suffocating than literally any other major city I've ever been in. Luckily, not staying here for much longer.
User opens app, makes a possible meetup that s/he is into , it then shows up on the map as just the title of the Group, along with maybe an interest count of initially 0.
If others click on it enough, the original users gets notified that this 'has momentum' and whether or not they want to schedule an actual get together. If they do, all other people are notified of the event.
like meetup.com, but the emphasis is on the location.
Is that what you were thinking ?
Once upon a time HN was about creating things.
Create a meetup and see what happens? There's a lot of cool stuff you'd learn doing that.
See what other locations people around you use for meetups. Run one and iterate. Start as open as possible.
Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation.
You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.
Also, I doubt that most people are going to focus on the pandemic at this point. It depends on where one lives, but even in LA most people have long since moved on from it, and no one wants to hear it at an IRL meetup revival.
Here's a link to a Discord server if it helps coordinate logistics [2].
Let's talk startups, AI/ML, and disrupting the incumbents!
t.me slash +IAT_zueOKigwY2Y9
(trying to prevent bots invasion!).
Definitely shoot me an invite if you set something up. Even if it's Tampa or wherever I'd probably be down to drive.
I’m not spitting at hackathon type events, but let’s be real — they target recent grads.
I’d love to be proven wrong on this, because I’d promptly attend the events that I don’t believe exist.
Is that still a thing?
Started out /s, but upon consideration I imagine YC really is the closest you could get to the spirit of HN in an in-person meetup.
EDIT: down to hang out with anyone that is super chill (and lives close to Nashville).
Maybe we can all pick a place downtown to (passively) make fun of those tourist nerds that keep invading.
The new museum is absolutely gorgeous and amazing (my wife works there).