A Hacker News but just for Londoners

A Hacker News but just for Londoners(sonews.co.uk)

8 points by hughhopkins 13 years ago | 9 comments

brackin 13 years ago |

I agree on the branding (doesn't sound like its about London startups) but having seen this site for a couple of weeks now there is a nice little community there. It makes sense to create a subreddit or site for London startups as there's a big community that doesn't really have a (non-facebook) forum to communicate and share.

hughhopkins 13 years ago | |

Thanks! it is work in progress so a few upgrades should be coming along as well

lotsofcows 13 years ago |

Insular.

Although some sense of geographical location (configurable) next to names would actually be quite nice.

lotsofcows (portsmouth, uk) 1 hour ago

hughhopkins 13 years ago | |

yeah, It's starting hyperlocal because that seems the easiest route. That would be good and I'll look into it

hughhopkins 13 years ago |

Feel free to fire me any questions about it here. Also, it is based on Telescope by Sacha Greif and Tom Coleman - which is built in MeteorJS.

jamesjgill 13 years ago |

Nicely designed and really handy to cut through the clutter to get to relevant London based stories.

hughhopkins 13 years ago | |

Cheers James, means a lot

maximem 13 years ago |

Why would you do that?

hughhopkins 13 years ago | |

Because HN is very SF centric and I know the London comunity will really benefit. Quite simply really. Not trying to create a $B company just something good for the area