Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#1

Post by jasonlynes » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:14 AM UTC

Here at SXSW, and I had the pleasure to attend the "Life After YC" session with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Dane Hurtubise (JobSpice), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and Jessica Mah (inDinero). It was fantastic. More than any other session, I felt like I was among peers. I got thinking, screw SXSW, we need a HN Conference. Or at least a HN track at SXSW.

Make it hacker-oriented, with technical and startup topics, invite the YC partners, maybe current and former batch founders to speak, maybe some angels, maybe help for people interested in applying, maybe a hack day? Who'd be interested?

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#2

Post by us » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

Should have been a poll. Short answer, interested if it's local to the Bay Area (where YC is located)

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#3

Post by jasonlynes » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:32 AM UTC

us wrote: post #2

Should have been a poll. Short answer, interested if it's local to the Bay Area (where YC is located)

yeah i think bay area for sure

(and how do you do a poll?)

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#4

Post by daleharvey » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:34 AM UTC

Sounds quite similiar to startup school, which I would highly recommend

While the speaker at startup school are generally the big name guys, lots of the YC founders are around during that time.

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#5

Post by kingofspain » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 1:36 AM UTC

jasonlynes wrote: post #3

us wrote: post #2

Should have been a poll. Short answer, interested if it's local to the Bay Area (where YC is located)

yeah i think bay area for sure (and how do you do a poll?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

But I'm not sure if you need a certain level of karma.

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#6

Post by theoretical » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 2:21 AM UTC

kingofspain wrote: post #5

jasonlynes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah i think bay area for sure (and how do you do a poll?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll But I'm not sure if you need a certain level of karma.

You do indeed. For me that page says: "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll."

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#7

Post by jaredsohn » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 2:50 AM UTC

theoretical wrote: post #6

kingofspain wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll But I'm not sure if you need a certain level of karma.

You do indeed. For me that page says: "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll."

I think that message is out of date. I have exactly 20 karma but it shows me the same message.

Re: Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?

#8

Post by jaredsohn » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 6:19 AM UTC

jaredsohn wrote: post #7

theoretical wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do indeed. For me that page says: "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll."

I think that message is out of date. I have exactly 20 karma but it shows me the same message.

Amusingly it works now. Not sure if something was fixed or if there is an off-by-one error (my previous comment was upvoted to give me 21 karma).