Poll: Where are you currently living? • Hacker News Board

shubhamjain wrote: post #27

I am from Jaipur, India. Many I times I am detestful of the fact that I don't live in big cities like Mumbai or Bangalore. I don't hear of any programming meetups that happen here, neither there are any conferences, nor any startup that has bubbled up. The first thing that I want to do after my graduation is to move in to a big city because socializing with smart people is the most recurring advice I have heard for a…

I agree location is important.

I asked the same question on HN 1450 days ago, see the responses I got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916622

Jaipur may not be the best place to start at this point in time but it definitely seem to have some future promises to offer.

I would like to bring to your notice that Entrepreneurship/Startup radar has picked up in Jaipur lately. Several events, groups have come up:

Some examples are:

groups:

startup jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jaipurtechies/

ceo jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/CeoJaipur

startup saturday jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssjaipur/

events:

Startup saturday event is happening every month

Startup Jaipur also meets physically , a little infrequently though, since December last year. And I plan to do hackthons and stuff under this (I am one of the founding members and an admin on FB), a little short on bandwidth though, would like to take the lead and try a hand?

CEO Jaipur the first co-working space for/by/of the entrepreneurs started some time back. They have space to host other events too.

Then there were some events from TIE like 'TIE mashup' that recently happened.

more events:

Bringing startup weekend to Jaipur is in process.

Overall, it's heating up but agreeably not as mature or vibrant as Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad or Pune. ( Lived and experienced the first three cities and their meetups personally.)

I am from Jaipur too and I run a startup ( http://startuplabs.io/ ) here.

Let me know if you would like to meetup and hangout.

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Post by precilliaw » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

einhverfr wrote: post #127

fidz wrote: post #89

Indonesia, anyone?

I am living in Indonesia at the moment (West Jakarta, probably not far from you). Might be worth those of us in the area who follow HN to do a meetup of some sort? (My email is chris.travers@gmail.com)

awesome, hope to see people like me in jakarta, rama at wamplo com

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Post by geldedus » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

Paris, France

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Post by shubhamjain » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 1:20 AM UTC

jnaut wrote: post #304

shubhamjain wrote: post #27

I am from Jaipur, India. Many I times I am detestful of the fact that I don't live in big cities like Mumbai or Bangalore. I don't hear of any programming meetups that happen here, neither there are any conferences, nor any startup that has bubbled up. The first thing that I want to do after my graduation is to move in to a big city because socializing with smart people is the most recurring advice I have heard for a…

I agree location is important. I asked the same question on HN 1450 days ago, see the responses I got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916622 Jaipur may not be the best place to start at this point in time but it definitely seem to have some future promises to offer. I would like to bring to your notice that Entrepreneurship/Startup radar has picked up in Jaipur lately. Several events, groups have come up: Some…

Sure. Would love to meet you, throw me a mail at shubham.jain.1@gmail.com.

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Post by riker2000 » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 10:42 AM UTC

Turkey

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Post by fidz » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 9:49 PM UTC

shirkey wrote: post #145

einhverfr wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am living in Indonesia at the moment (West Jakarta, probably not far from you). Might be worth those of us in the area who follow HN to do a meetup of some sort? (My email is chris.travers@gmail.com)

Hey Chris, I'm also from US and in the Jakarta area -- sounds like there's a larger community here than I had imagined. I'll drop you an email.

Hi All, meetup sounds great! I know there are a lot of local Jakarta tech community (such as GDG Jakarta, StartupLokal, id-php, id-ruby), but a HN meetup would be different than those meetup.

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Post by graphzon » Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 11:53 AM UTC

einhverfr wrote: post #127

fidz wrote: post #89

Indonesia, anyone?

I am living in Indonesia at the moment (West Jakarta, probably not far from you). Might be worth those of us in the area who follow HN to do a meetup of some sort? (My email is chris.travers@gmail.com)

Interesting, I'm also in the Jakarta (South Jakarta), how about hangout for Jakarta HN ?