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Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by cshekhar »

rick_2047 wrote: post #4
cshekhar wrote: post #3

What different things you are going to do with HNI ? I mean I wanted to know the purpose of creating whole new thing similar to HN. Also need to manage both accounts personally I don't like many accounts.

I get the point the op is trying to make there. You see I was longing for a lot of time for something similar but which can also discuss local issues. I just feel left out when there is discussion only about the startup scene in silicon valley SF etc. I would strongly support this initiative.

I am not against it but just wanted to know details :)

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

#12

Post by sathyabhat »

plinkplonk wrote: post #9

Bad Idea. I am Indian and I plan to stay away from this. "Hacker News" is a name used by PG for his webapp and you shouldn't use it (or variants) for yourself without getting explicit permission from him (You didn't did you?). Imagine setting up a "Google India" or "Stanford India" site and claiming "if they want to operate these sites they can, we are not making any money off this". If those are shady, so is this. I…

I agree with the idea, but disagree with the choice of name.

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by _b8r0 »

niyazpk wrote: post #10

Changing the name is the best course of action. The name 'hackers news' may not be copyrighted, but that does not make using the exact same name the right thing to do. The name 'hacker news india' may deceive at least a few people into believing that the site is somehow affiliated to the original site. Furthermore, I don't think that using the same name will somehow make the site in par with the original hacker news.…

I would agree, especially given that the site looks exactly like Hacker News with different colours. Quite a few of the articles up there look like they'd be fine here.

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by _b8r0 »

rick_2047 wrote: post #4
cshekhar wrote: post #3

What different things you are going to do with HNI ? I mean I wanted to know the purpose of creating whole new thing similar to HN. Also need to manage both accounts personally I don't like many accounts.

I get the point the op is trying to make there. You see I was longing for a lot of time for something similar but which can also discuss local issues. I just feel left out when there is discussion only about the startup scene in silicon valley SF etc. I would strongly support this initiative.

If you don't like the silicon valley skew then post more non-silicon valley stuff here.

There's a certain valley skew here because of the people engaged by HN, YC and PG, but it's hardly exclusive.

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by ramki »

cshekhar wrote: post #3

What different things you are going to do with HNI ? I mean I wanted to know the purpose of creating whole new thing similar to HN. Also need to manage both accounts personally I don't like many accounts.

since it is new, i think you can get same id and passwd(?) on HNI :)

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by rick_2047 »

_b8r0 wrote: post #14
rick_2047 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the point the op is trying to make there. You see I was longing for a lot of time for something similar but which can also discuss local issues. I just feel left out when there is discussion only about the startup scene in silicon valley SF etc. I would strongly support this initiative.

If you don't like the silicon valley skew then post more non-silicon valley stuff here. There's a certain valley skew here because of the people engaged by HN, YC and PG, but it's hardly exclusive.

It becomes exclusive when most of you are from silicon valley. Also if I were to post something like this[1] here I wouldn't get many answers.

http://hackernews.in/item?id=112

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by guglanisam »

The fact that PG released HN code as open source means that he wants more people to use it. The issue about the name is correct, we shld think of a different name for HN India - so that there is no false impression of any affiliation with HN.

But I think a local flavor is surely a good idea and more counties / geographies should create their versions. Just in 3-4 days the Indian HN has gotten a lot of traction.

Re: Tell HN: Hacker News India

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Post by _b8r0 »

rick_2047 wrote: post #17
_b8r0 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't like the silicon valley skew then post more non-silicon valley stuff here. There's a certain valley skew here because of the people engaged by HN, YC and PG, but it's hardly exclusive.

It becomes exclusive when most of you are from silicon valley. Also if I were to post something like this[1] here I wouldn't get many answers. http://hackernews.in/item?id=112

Your comment would carry more weight if I were from silicon valley (sorry, UK here).

As for answers, post according to your target market. Surely if you post while fellow Indians are awake you'll get answers from them? How many users are on hackernews.in that aren't on news.ycombinator.com?

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