Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.
Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
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Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#22The concept of a global community of startup people is nice, but why do I have to use your platform to be a part of it? That question felt unanswered to me after 60 seconds on the landing page.
You don't have to become a member of our community, but I might be able to give you a couple of reasons why it is what it is today, if you can let me know which one we should put up on the page according to you?
- hosted/organised by an independent non-profit with the goal to help founders - using slack, easy and unobtrusive cross platform system - members are selected upon their motivation
Or because it already exists in a great form? There are multiple others, but we are open to anyone that can provide a motivation.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
lol. let me call you the waaaaaambulance. I get what you're saying, but its still fair to call it a hashtag, and for them to call it hashtagstartup.
How is it fair? It makes no sense at all and just reminds me of kids growing up with Twitter calling that character hashtag regardless of context. Solid hacker news etiquette there, by the way.
Why those young whippersnapper, outrageous, why back in my day at we called it the Octothorp, which sounds like a good and proper syntactic mark.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#24Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wrt your edit, do you really think that people downvote you because they disagree with you?
It's more than a little suspicious that I immediately got 5 down votes for my critical comment, but have since broken even on karma again. I'd like to think my further arguments below did it, but more likely this thread was posted in one of the hashtagstartup channels.
Don't usually do this, but I'll explain the downvotes (I've never heard of this project). Your original comment felt needlessly aggressive and had nothing to do with discussing the project's merits. The follow-on comments were in the same vein, and the entire comment thread felt like a flame war for no reason.
So I downvoted because I wanted to signal that I'd like to read less content like that on here. I went and checked the HN guidelines on content, and here's a few points which I felt supported the downvote:
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."
And now I have contributed in uselessness to this comment thread, the cycle is complete :).
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#26Cool! Shameless plug: If you're interested in the actual hashtag on Twitter, you could like to use of our free embeds: http://hashtagify.me/explorer/embed_wizard?hashtags=startup&... Also let me know if you'd like to get detailed analysis of the #startup hashtag, I'd gladly contribute it for free.
Ha, that could be cool to share with the group :) Could you send me the detailed analysis on hello startupfoundation co ?
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#27For those who are wondering the slick UI for the sign up was made with Typeform out of Barcelona :)
FYI that form fails hard on Mobile Safari if you happen to rotate. Form elements go offscreen and you can't pinch zoom your way back to them. https://www.dropbox.com/s/yyykioemk8z0pqy/Photo%20Dec%2030%2... https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jbmiifu9y5qabd/Photo%20Dec%2030%2... https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7sq5ztyrafkyly/Photo%20Dec%2030%2...
Thanks, our dev team is on it :)
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#28Pretty cool! I just signed up. I think its an interesting line of dialog to have going in the background, and am hopeful it will make the path to starting and running a startup clearer for me. The signup process is kinda neat, but some of the questions made me go "errr..." edit: i see they(you?) use typeform for the signup form; never heard of them before, but pretty neat!
Which made you go "errr..."? We try to get an idea of who a person is. Also, if they have founders in their network, or if they are just lazy and skip questions ;-)
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#29Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.
Yeah no thanks. I've been on there a few times. That channel is filled with a bunch of sweary and self-centered people. It's probably the anonymity but I'd rather hang out in r/startups before I'd go back to the IRC chat.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#30I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it's tricky to tell if that's really the case (I don't believe there's bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn't inspire confidence).