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Rob actually asked "who is thinking of starting a startup soon, or has done so in the past couple of months", which may have prevented people who have started a startup or have been employed by one from raising their hands.
(Speaking of which, nearly everyone I know – including us – is hiring.)
I live in London and am currently trying to get my startup off the ground. I am also an avid reader of HN, and was considering going to last nights event. Due to work pressures, i.e. launching soon, I saw it better to spend my time working on my startup than going to the HN event. I have 2 children, and work from home, so I need to grab any opportunity I can to work. Also, there are now lots of startup events in Lond…
We're all busy working, I think is the answer. Like you I'm working away furiously trying to get the MVP out the door so we can start doing some testing. While I'm very positive about HN, I feel that in some ways attending stuff like HN meetups seems like a bit of a popularity contest, "look at me!".
Logging in anonymously, because it lets me be slightly more direct. As someone who does work on a startup in London, but didn't go last night, it's because I've found the HN London meetups to be chock-full of people who don't work on startups, but simply talk all evening about recycled opinions they've garnered from reading HN posts. Not an interesting way to spend an evening.
Rob actually asked "who is thinking of starting a startup soon, or has done so in the past couple of months", which may have prevented people who have started a startup or have been employed by one from raising their hands.
I went to the HN meetup last night, and I'm in full-time employment with no start-up experience; just some ambitions to do something in the future. I go along for a little inspiration and to talk to other developers - do people object to folks like me coming to these events?
Logging in anonymously, because it lets me be slightly more direct. As someone who does work on a startup in London, but didn't go last night, it's because I've found the HN London meetups to be chock-full of people who don't work on startups, but simply talk all evening about recycled opinions they've garnered from reading HN posts. Not an interesting way to spend an evening.
Maybe I got lucky and chatted to the right guys.