Awesome! I've been hoping to find something like this. Would be great if I could add a Mastodon profile.
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#52Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).
I suspect the current situation is mostly due to timezones and as the west coast wakes up we‘ll see more cities appear there. It’ll probably take a few days until you can deduce anything about hn-users in general from that map.
And thanks for the comment - made me look outside my immediate surroundings on the map!
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#53When I type in "Kraków, Poland", I get meet.hn/city/pl-undefined. Does your code handle diacritics correctly?
Also, I can't click on users that are in cities containing a diacritic (Pégomas, France) or a space (La Ciotat, France).
Nice idea, good luck with the top spot on HN!
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#54Very cool! I think many will be reticent to divulge social information on here! Looking forward to seeing this grow.
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#56What about security?
How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information?
It feels like a honeypot to be honest.
My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.
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#57mark my words, this will be worse than the reddit meetups.
I think it depends on how you use HN. I try to contribute positively in the comments and enjoy the learning aspect of the HN community. Shit posters might not want to join the train.
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#58This is a great idea, and I sincerely want it to work out. For myself, I'll probably not use it, but that's because I'm an "old," and I stopped attending local meetups, because I was always surrounded by a circle of avoidance, where no one would look at me, or have anything to do with me. Got a bit tiresome, but it's the way of the world, I guess. For non-olds, these meetups are great, with a lot of energy and enthus…
Need a “wise old dudes” meet up and charge those under 40 to attend- few 20 to 30 year olds understand how much of value they could get from an “old dude” for the price of a beer/coffee.
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#59Perhaps a notification when new signups occur in the same area? Or when people near you with shared interests.
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#60awesome idea. Would be great to have in maps view some adaptive clustering with number inside similar like nomadlist members map:
https://nomads.com/community
Also for those that nomading and changing places often would be good to have option to share location via WebLocation but make it randomized on the backend or even better in frontend (so that it's approximate to e.g 5-10km radius)