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Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by amirouche »

olalonde wrote: post #16

I am in a similar boat (living in China) and HN is really my only way of keeping in touch with the startup/hacker community and "socialising". I really wish there was a IRC channel/website dedicated to people in our situation who are looking to socialise or collaborate together on projects/startups. I was thinking about this problem recently and one idea that I came up with was to build a "MVP league" that would comb…

There is https://assembly.com/. It's not hackaton oriented but it connects people that want to build things.

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by amirouche »

v_ignatyev wrote: post #20
olalonde wrote: post #16

I am in a similar boat (living in China) and HN is really my only way of keeping in touch with the startup/hacker community and "socialising". I really wish there was a IRC channel/website dedicated to people in our situation who are looking to socialise or collaborate together on projects/startups. I was thinking about this problem recently and one idea that I came up with was to build a "MVP league" that would comb…

Have you already took part in one of virtual/online hackathons?

to take part in virtual hackatons you need to know people.

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by sealocal »

olalonde wrote: post #16

I am in a similar boat (living in China) and HN is really my only way of keeping in touch with the startup/hacker community and "socialising". I really wish there was a IRC channel/website dedicated to people in our situation who are looking to socialise or collaborate together on projects/startups. I was thinking about this problem recently and one idea that I came up with was to build a "MVP league" that would comb…

Since you mentioned IRC, checkout #Startup on Slack. It raised some attention on ProductHunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/startup-2.

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by v_ignatyev »

amirouche wrote: post #22
v_ignatyev wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you already took part in one of virtual/online hackathons?

to take part in virtual hackatons you need to know people.

wrong. look at https://github.com/koding/global.hackathon/tree/master/Teams...

our two man team is random. Some guy joined me for the hackathon, because he hadn't got idea what to do and he was following me in Twitter and read my ask for help.

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by vayarajesh »

I also have similar situation - I live in Dubai - and don't have many passionate programmers here. After lot of reading and research I have realized that it is very important to work with good programmers like in USA in order to grow and moving physically to Silicon Valley is the best option but if you like your country and have a family to look after you can also try remote jobs.. if you look at remote working with companies in USA it will be almost as beneficial as working as physically present there.

e.g. https://angel.co/jobs http://remoteworking.co http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs

You can also try contributing to open source projects on github until you find a way to be around good programmers

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by hammadfauz »

vayarajesh wrote: post #25

I also have similar situation - I live in Dubai - and don't have many passionate programmers here. After lot of reading and research I have realized that it is very important to work with good programmers like in USA in order to grow and moving physically to Silicon Valley is the best option but if you like your country and have a family to look after you can also try remote jobs.. if you look at remote working with…

I am in the exact same situation as you. I live in Sharjah. my github: https://github.com/hammadfauz Most of the times, I want to make something, but I have no idea what. If you or anyone has something neat to do, I'll be glad to participate.

Re: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

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Post by vladimirralev »

I am going to suggest for you to go visit San Francisco, stay in a hacker or startup house. Try a few, some are awesome, some are bad, depends on the guests. Smaller houses are more casual, but bigger houses often host events or team up to travel together to nearby events. Plan to stay around 2 months to really get the feel of how things work. Check if Stanford or some other university hosts a startup camp of some sort. I feel like you should stay away from actual hackathons in the valley, but I may be wrong. Also the winter is warm in San Francisco, so you get to move around easily and it attracts more traveling hackers from around the world. Another thing - don't focus too much on the engineering part - don't dismiss artwork, design, and sales people.
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