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

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

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Post by throwaway158497 » Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 12:10 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by theowenyoung » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 4:03 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by _448 » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 9:07 AM UTC

sumanthvepa wrote: post #10

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.

> 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?

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

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Post by jace » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

sumanthvepa wrote: post #10

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.

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.