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

#1

Post by sirobg »

Hey HN!

I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city.

How it works?

Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329

1. Fill the form: username, city+country

2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description.

3. Click "Add me on the map"

Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests.

Why does it exist?

I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I have fewer than a handful of friends who are as curious and eager to think and reflect as the people on HN. Also, the city I currently live in is more focused on industry than on technology and entrepreneurship, which are core to HN.

This led me to want to meet the HN community IRL. After trying `site:news.ycombinator.com/user toulouse` on Google and getting only one result, I decided to create meet.hn.

My first goal with this is to meet at least one HN member in my city: Toulouse, France. If you are ever in the area, hit me up! I'm sirobg at https://meet.hn/city/fr-Toulouse

Additional details:

- meet.hn has a twitter page: https://x.com/meet_hn. If you meet IRL thanks to meet.hn, don't hesitate to tag it with a picture, it would mean the world to me.

- the code is open source: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn

- meet.hn integrates with https://at.hn/ from @padolsey (https://padolsey.at.hn/), registered on meet.hn at https://meet.hn/city/cn-Beijing

Finally, many thanks to these people for their help and/or feedbacks! Ordered alphabetically:

- https://x.com/ericbureltech

- https://x.com/fredkisss

- https://x.com/JulienDuquesne1

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbasseto/

- https://x.com/lcswillems

- https://x.com/leeerob

- https://x.com/padolsey

- https://x.com/tomlienard

I hope you will enjoy this! Please share any feedback in the comments.

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

#2

Post by Aachen »

> No meet.hn data found for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update.

My account exists since 2020, why would the HN API (which, if you click the link at the bottom of every page, says "near real time") not know my account? I'm curious how this error occurs

For anyone else having this, the "add me" button will enable itself again, but it does take a while. Not that retrying seems to work for me

Edit: nvm I'm being stupid, I did not see the "copy and paste the text below into your HN account" instruction. Thanks also to those who replied with that info, though while playing with the browser dev tools to figure out what the issue might be, I spotted that text eventually

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

#3

Post by lifty »

Aachen wrote: post #2

> No meet.hn data found for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update. My account exists since 2020, why would the HN API (which, if you click the link at the bottom of every page, says "near real time") not know my account? I'm curious how this error occurs For anyone else having this, the "add me" button will enable itself again, but it does take a while. Not that retrying seems to work for me Edit: nvm I…

You have to add the link to your bio. It’s a way for the app to verify that you want to be added to the map

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

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Post by gdcbe »

Aachen wrote: post #2

> No meet.hn data found for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update. My account exists since 2020, why would the HN API (which, if you click the link at the bottom of every page, says "near real time") not know my account? I'm curious how this error occurs For anyone else having this, the "add me" button will enable itself again, but it does take a while. Not that retrying seems to work for me Edit: nvm I…

For me it only worked after I added their form text to my hn account description on my actual hn account page…

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

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Post by delta_p_delta_x »

> City not found. Make sure you use the format: City, Country (Paris, France)

It might be good to rework this—cities only, and provide a drop-down box for users to select. Having city, country is a bit superfluous for people who live in city-states.

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