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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
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Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#462Another data point... This is a snapshot of our ( http://feefighters.com ) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png US: 65%, CA: 7.4%, UK: 6.1%, Germany: 2.2%, Australia: 2.1%, India: 1.7%, Netherlands: 1%, France: 1% Drilling down within the US: New York: 8.8%, SF: 8.6%, Chicago: 4.6%, Seattle: 2.5%, Austin, LA,…
As others have noted, fee fighters isn't good proxy for international traffic.
I've seen the posts about it but never clicked through because it is irrelevent to me (from Australia)
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#463Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…
"We" don't need a startup visa, "the USA" might. I'd prefer that Indian entrepreneurs capitalized on the excellent opportunities available at home. I support the startup visa in the spirit of supporting choice, but I resent the implication that the whole world should send its talents to the valley.
Hey Kingsley, do you consider yourself from India, from the SF Bay Area or from both? Note, I don't mean ethnically ;)
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#464Malta
me too, lots of jobs for web developers over here these days
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#465Only 70 from China?
I wander if they have their own HN, along with Baidu and Weibo :)
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#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.
Not being based in the US comes with advantages as well. For example, I don't have to worry about getting health insurance for me or any employees or contractors. This makes a big difference to startup costs and getting people to work for you.
the other advantage is the lack of software and process patents in Europe meaning less of chance of being sued out of existence. I think this will become more obvious over the next 10 years.
Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#467The timing of this poll is definitely going to throw off the results. It's nearly 2AM on the US West Coast, and most people are going to be asleep.
If it stays in the first page for 24 hours, the final result will be significant enough.
We're currently 24 hours in. Saving results for posterity:
United States - NYC and SF area 1473 points
Canada 519 points
UK 590 points
(Rest of) Europe 1632 points
Australia/Oceania 271 points
South America 181 points
(Rest of) Asia/Pacific 247 points
Africa 76 points
(Rest of the) United States 2220 points
China 71 points
India 294 points
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#468Georgia (Europe, non-EU)
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#469Poland
Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#470Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…
"We" don't need a startup visa, "the USA" might. I'd prefer that Indian entrepreneurs capitalized on the excellent opportunities available at home. I support the startup visa in the spirit of supporting choice, but I resent the implication that the whole world should send its talents to the valley.
As an entrepreneur from India, the only issue is a lot of these payment gateways, and licenses of different kinds are easier to get from US.
If those become more global I personally would prefer starting and running from India.