I’m down if anyone is in the Northern Virginia/DC area. Ping me, I’ll buy the first round. I’d love to hear your story.
NOVA here, DMed!
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#222Poland/Poznan interested inmeetup in Oct/Nov?
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#223ITT: A disturbing lack of people requesting a Seattle meetup! 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
My org should be able to host an event if you want to try and throw something together.
Unicorn start up and all that jazz. Likely they will want someone to give a short spiel.
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#224Someone should make a global map with a web app that you can place a search engine protected email address on + GPS location - to contact in case of desire to grab a coffee over locale-focused startup & tech convos. Boom.
Very cool idea. I'd love to have that here in southern Italy.
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#225Anyone in Italy, possibly Milan ಠ‿ಠ
I'm in Italy, based in Bari
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#226Anyone in the Bay Area interested in a HN Meetup?
Yessss
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a disturbing lack of people requesting a seattle meetup 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.
LUGs etc seem to just starve here. What explains it?
From personal experience, combine the typical flakines/social non-commital of people from LA with typical nordic asocial behaviors, and that's what you got here.
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.
Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?
#229Someone should make a global map with a web app that you can place a search engine protected email address on + GPS location - to contact in case of desire to grab a coffee over locale-focused startup & tech convos. Boom.
I like this idea alot, maybe something like this: 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 t…
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#230Toronto - who is in?
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