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

#1

Post by testing_1_2_3_4 » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

Do Chinese and Indian developers primarily spend most of their time online in the same places as US/European developers, or are there similar sites that I'm just not aware of? I'm thinking places like Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, etc.

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

#2

Post by abhinavk » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

Indian Engineer here.

We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.

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

#3

Post by testing_1_2_3_4 » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

abhinavk wrote: post #2

Indian Engineer here. We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.

Are there any others that are primarily Indian-centric that a US developer might not know about?

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

#4

Post by markus_zhang » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:34 PM UTC

Chinese:

v2ex (close to HN) zhihu (close to quora) Stackoverflow github (joked as gayhub)

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

#5

Post by dadavi » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:36 PM UTC

Is the best

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

#6

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

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

#7

Post by testing_1_2_3_4 » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

markus_zhang wrote: post #4

Chinese: v2ex (close to HN) zhihu (close to quora) Stackoverflow github (joked as gayhub)

> v2ex

I've heard of v2ex before, I'll sign up now. Thank you! :)

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

#8

Post by balancesoggy » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

Indian dev here. Nothing country specific. Stackoverflow mostly. Just google and whatever solves your problem. We are not community builders that work at scale.

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

#9

Post by jason2323 » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

testing_1_2_3_4 wrote: post #3

abhinavk wrote: post #2

Indian Engineer here. We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.

Are there any others that are primarily Indian-centric that a US developer might not know about?

Not really. Indian devs afaik use the same websites Americans do (probably has to do with English being lingua franca in tech in India as well)

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

#10

Post by sumanthvepa » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

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.