Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 3:44 PM UTC

qazxcvbnm wrote: post #125

Trying to add myself fails, showing "Oops! Something uncool is breaking this app.". The POST request seems to be receiving 500 with the following request. -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_username" qazxcvbnm -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_location" Hong Kong Island, China -------------…

Hey, did it work for you in the end?

You can send me a message through meet.hn/feedback. Add some way to contact you back if you want me to answer!

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

m-a-t-t-i wrote: post #253

Would be great if the tags field allowed freeform input instead of choosing from a set of existing tags. My preferred tags would have been Design, Fashion, Digital fabrication, Computational Creativity etc. but none were available.

I was (and still am) worried to let people use anything as input on the internet.

Any advice as to how to handle that?

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 3:55 PM UTC

dualogy wrote: post #43

Bug alert: while clicking on the Seoul 'M' does work, listing its (currently 1) hackers, the close-by Pyongyang doesn't (despite also having "1 hacker" registered).

Should be working since a few days!

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:01 PM UTC

nkg wrote: post #345

Thank you for letting me be the 1st hacker on my island ;) https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg

Awesome! Very nice flex too!

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

zschuessler wrote: post #108

This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality. I saw others already mentioned uniqueness of city names. In the US there is no guarantee a state, zip code, or even county won't have a duplicate city name. To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location. Good stuff - cheers!

> This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality.

Thank you very much!

> To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location.

I ended up doing this! Migrated all user and city data over to this new paradigm.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC

cssanchez wrote: post #215

Just to leave my data point, I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list. That said, PR is so small that I don't care about searching by city, searching for users in the island is enough for a meetup. For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.

> I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list

Someone is registered there now! https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan

> For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.

You can now if you want to. But the UI isn't really made for this. You might end up with a "M" marker in the middle of nowhere in your country.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:13 PM UTC

tlewitt wrote: post #234

I have been reading HN for 4+ years through university and moving to SF for a job in tech and derive a huge amount of utility from it. However this is the first post that has made me want to join and interact as more than a “lurker”. Looks awesome and I hope to meet some awesome hackers around me!

So cool to read!

It seems you guys are two over there now: https://meet.hn/city/36.9743626,-122.0294673/Santa-Cruz

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:20 PM UTC

jdmg94 wrote: post #189

The website looks nice, the domain is rather unusual, which registrar did you get it from? I used punto.hn but their business model was very weird and required me to eat a $15 wire fee every year on top of the cost of the domain, I dropped them after the first year.

I struggled a bit and found https://njal.la/

Everything has been smooth so far

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

zelphirkalt wrote: post #201

Hm. After waiting several minutes, it does not seem to pick up the info from my profile. "No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update." Also might be good to add Mastodon to the list of available social networks.

Hey, sorry it happened... can you tell me more about that?

Don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by sirobg » Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 4:31 PM UTC

AstroJetson wrote: post #208

It could use some work for the USA. I'm in the better Wilmington, the one in Delaware. But it doesn't seem to want to let me use Delaware vs North Carolina. So needs City/State/Country for the US.

Hey, sorry for this.

Yesterday I shipped a search which should have fixed this. Actually I tested this and it finds Wilmington from Delaware now.

If it's not the case for you, send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.