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Ask YC: Where's the best place for online discussion?

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Post by inovica »

I've moved completely away from Reddit now and have Hacker News as my homepage. Great articles and obviously some great people.

What interests me is what forums / sites people on here use to discuss startups? I've always got questions - either of a technical or a business nature and after being in business myself now for around 14 years I've also a lot to offer (though I say so myself!) with various topics. There is a lot of talk on here about physical meet-ups, which is great, but we're all online so my interest is where we can meet up to help each other online. Where do you do this now?

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#4

Post by inovica »

cellis wrote: post #2

its not obvious huh?

not to me :) This site is obviously filled with people who are passionate. Some of the startup sites are terrible and not focused on web/online startups. Programming forums are generally that but a fusion site, mixing programming, design and business would be great.

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#5

Post by transburgh »

inovica wrote: post #4
cellis wrote: post #2

its not obvious huh?

not to me :) This site is obviously filled with people who are passionate. Some of the startup sites are terrible and not focused on web/online startups. Programming forums are generally that but a fusion site, mixing programming, design and business would be great.

Good idea inovica. That would be a great mix for a forum.

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#7

Post by inovica »

edw519 wrote: post #6

I thought that THIS forum was what you're talking about. What am I missing?

This is a great site - don't get me wrong. For news its wonderful and its great to see what other people are doing. However, for general advice type questions (more suitable for a forum) the site isn't designed for that and I was wondering where people tend to go other than this site to interact with likeminded people

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#8

Post by edw519 »

inovica wrote: post #7
edw519 wrote: post #6

I thought that THIS forum was what you're talking about. What am I missing?

This is a great site - don't get me wrong. For news its wonderful and its great to see what other people are doing. However, for general advice type questions (more suitable for a forum) the site isn't designed for that and I was wondering where people tend to go other than this site to interact with likeminded people

OK, I think that this site is both. I have posted my problems here and gotten excellent responses. I have learned quite a bit on others' postings. Also, I like to think I've contributed, too. Give it a try - you may be pleasantly surprised by the response.

(Most of my concerns are NOT technical. I can go to Webmonkey or Barnes & Noble for that. I'm more interested in how others like myself handle similar situations, technical or business. So far, I haven't found anyplace better, but if anyone does, I'm all ears.)

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#9

Post by marcus »

If you have any question then asking it here is usually good enough, I asked a question a few days ago and got some great ideas.

The only feature here that is sorely missing for this to be a kick-ass forum is that it doesn't accumulate knowledge.

If it only had a decent search feature, it would have an excellent forum.

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