I have been a stay at home hacker for 9 years now and while it certainly has benefits, one of the biggest drawbacks is that there are no people I can simply walk over and talk to about my work. Is there a site that will help me find other people who do what I do (other than HN)
Ask HN: How do I find other work from home hackers like me?
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Re: Ask HN: How do I find other work from home hackers like me?
#2Depending on your location, there may be institutions similar to Dogpatch Labs or Hacker Dojo. These are places where hackers can get cheap temporary 1-2 person spaces to work. I don't know of any outside of the bay area though.
I think a 'find other hackers site' is a great idea. Given that you are a hacker yourself, why don't you make a site like this? If it was well made, I would use it.
Re: Ask HN: How do I find other work from home hackers like me?
#3Depending on your location, there may be institutions similar to Dogpatch Labs or Hacker Dojo. These are places where hackers can get cheap temporary 1-2 person spaces to work. I don't know of any outside of the bay area though. I think a 'find other hackers site' is a great idea. Given that you are a hacker yourself, why don't you make a site like this? If it was well made, I would use it.
There are several physical locations where you can get office space of that sort but I am looking for something online.
I would really like there to already be something out there, it seems those things that are close tend to trend more to the Q&A genre like Stackoverflow and Quora (lots of money in this area right now it seems) but what I imagine is really more about creating connections. Closer to eHarmony than Stackoverflow. If something isnt out there I may try to throw something together if I can figure out how to monetize it, I picked up thenextcubeover.com just because it was the first thing that came to mind.
Re: Ask HN: How do I find other work from home hackers like me?
#4I'm in the same situation as you (although I've only been working at home for ~6 months so far). Feel free to send me an AIM: comradeb14ck
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#6I'd love to see this.
I am a corporate developer. I'm in my tenth year in the industry, and work so much that all I have a passion for anymore is programming, frameworks, algorithms and hardware. It would be great to find other people to hang out with that love the same thing (instead of trying to relate to people that don't). Every time I try to make new friends I feel like the world's most boring alien. Hanging out with work friends is kinda awkward. I used to be able to relate to people on video games and movies, but I don't have time for those anymore :(.
I imagine there are a lot of us, we should have a way to find each other.
I would imagine the biggest challenge something like this would have is keeping the recruiters out.
Re: Ask HN: How do I find other work from home hackers like me?
#7Depending on where you live, there may be a Jelly: http://workatjelly.com which is a bunch of work-from-home-ers who get together to cowork in coffee shops.
I live in Chicago, and ours is the best Jelly. Beyond words awesome. We meet twice a week and I get/give great advice: http://jellychicago.com