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http://www.hackerlunch.com I am working on an iOS app that lets hackers meet up with each other and have lunch. I moved to San Francisco from Bangladesh last year and found it tough to meet other hackers. Being rather introverted, tech meetups didn't really work for me. I felt that a one-on-one meetup would be ideal. So that's what I'm building. I'm hoping to launch within a few weeks. If it sounds interesting to you…

Reminds me of letslunch.com

The basic idea is fairly similar. The key difference is that, instead of you requesting someone to have lunch, the app automatically pairs you with someone.

I believe this would make the experience much more natural and fun.

Also it solves the problem, where a large number of users are only interested in having lunch with a few people (VIPs on LetsLunch).

I'm hoping this will make HackerLunch more about meeting interesting people and less about "networking".

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Building Bytengine https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine in my spare time. Started out as a back end for a DMS but it made sense later to develop it to be a CMS repository.

I initially wrote it in python but when I needed to write a query language and saw Rob Pike's talk on a lever for the Go template language, I rewrote it in Go. It was/is a good way to learn Go!

It borrows a few ideas from couchdb and mongodb and I'm in the process of changing the architecture so it can use other storage engines such as rethinkdb or tiedot for the json docs and couchdb for the BLOBs.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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Reminds me of letslunch.com

The basic idea is fairly similar. The key difference is that, instead of you requesting someone to have lunch, the app automatically pairs you with someone. I believe this would make the experience much more natural and fun. Also it solves the problem, where a large number of users are only interested in having lunch with a few people (VIPs on LetsLunch). I'm hoping this will make HackerLunch more about meeting inter…

I haven't used LetsLunch in years but the last time I did it was random pairing. You couldn't actually decide who to meet although you could submit who you'd be interested in and what general areas of interest were. If they changed that aspect then it sounds like you're building the original LetsLunch concept.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building?

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https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/smartass-the-wacky-brain-gam...

My friend and i have been working on this for 18 months, contending with family and our day to day job, it's been a bit of struggle to finish it. Just released a week or two ago, still working on polishing the website (outsourced but that was a disaster), and video. Once that's done we're going to do marketing a litte more aggressively. I'm currerntly working on an android port.

edit: Forgot video link: http://youtu.be/DW6TWF1_QUE

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