We're hosting a bunch of grubwithus dinners in the Bay Area with YC alumni for women interested in learning more about startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144852
Grubwithus (YC W11) Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals
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#32Met the Grubwithus guys at the last HN Chicago meetup and they impressed the heck out of me as guys who enjoy and have experience running businesses. Best of luck to them!
Offtopic - I envy you guys so much for having HN meetups, I think I am the only Brazilian that reads HN (very unlikely), because nobody answers me about a Brazilian one.
You should envy us! The last Chicago one had about 30 people show up and was far and away the best one I've ever been to. There's great people here in Chicago.
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#33Out of the box it seems very speedatingesque. While amazingly fun if you have a good group, one bad guest might ruin the night for the rest of the group. If this takes off, then awesome - a new way to meet people. However I think that the grubwithus guys are going to hit quite a few social hurdles along the way.
might need a way to rate other people you dine with to address this, kind of how airbnb works
after the meal you can post comments about your dining experience with the individuals you grubbed with. these comments are listed on their profile page for others to read.
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#34Also, FWIW, the new home page is LIGHT YEARS better than the old one. Great job. Got a designer referral?
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#35Also, FWIW, the new home page is LIGHT YEARS better than the old one. Great job. Got a designer referral?
THANKS! We did it ourselves -- just great feedback from YC and our user base. We went through a ton of iterations
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#36Met the Grubwithus guys at the last HN Chicago meetup and they impressed the heck out of me as guys who enjoy and have experience running businesses. Best of luck to them!
Offtopic - I envy you guys so much for having HN meetups, I think I am the only Brazilian that reads HN (very unlikely), because nobody answers me about a Brazilian one.
I'm another brazillian who reads hn and comments regularly enough. Live in são paulo, phd student in machine learning at unicamp.
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#37Met the Grubwithus guys at the last HN Chicago meetup and they impressed the heck out of me as guys who enjoy and have experience running businesses. Best of luck to them!
Offtopic - I envy you guys so much for having HN meetups, I think I am the only Brazilian that reads HN (very unlikely), because nobody answers me about a Brazilian one.
Are you from Rio de Janeiro? If so feel free to email me.
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#38https://www.grubwith.us/signup
The "What city will you be eating in" lists S.F. after "other" -- straight alphabetization? Struck me as rather odd.
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#39https://www.grubwith.us/signup The "What city will you be eating in" lists S.F. after "other" -- straight alphabetization? Struck me as rather odd.
Thanks!!!! We will change that out to put "other" last
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#40great idea. i will definitely try it out when it comes to boston!