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As a (almost)first-time, solo entrepreneur who is bootstrapping (yes I have almost everything going against me!), I would really value a community/forum like this. There are times when I'd like to discuss things, seek support, and learn from what others are doing in a more casual setting. HN is great for learning but as a community for informal discussion, it seems just a tad heavyweight.
I love browsing through a tons of different subreddits that have now matured and grown very interesting. In decreasing order of interest to me: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/ http://www.reddit.com/r/longtext/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/ http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/…
It seems pointless to subscribe to new subreddits since you don't know whether they'll have traction. How can you find 'trending' subreddits?
Or am I thinking about this all wrong?
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It's really easy on the eyes late at night and early in the morning.
Not for people over a certain age.. I'm never getting those nights and mornings back. :) It's really just retina-searing, sorry. Other color options would be most welcome.
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I agree that HN has jumped the shark. As an example case, I dare you to try to express an opinion on HN which does not toe the party line. And for those of you about to down-vote this comment: where are the articles pointing out the problems with HN, where are the articles showing the flaws in Lisp, where are the articles which denounce venture-capital-funded startups as the snake-oil of the modern age? "But those po…
>Where are the articles showing the flaws in lisp? Easy. Worse is better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
I was at the OOPSLA (+- a few years of 2002) where Gabriel denounced being a programmer and claimed to be a "code poet"... Looking at dreamsongs it looks like he's mostly followed through on that statement.
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I like the foundernews.com suggestion.
And it's gone...
The lean startup circle Google group is pretty active, with decent SNR.
I love browsing through a tons of different subreddits that have now matured and grown very interesting. In decreasing order of interest to me: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/ http://www.reddit.com/r/longtext/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/ http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/…
I just started a subreddit for solo founders: http://www.reddit.com/r/solostartups/ I'm going to start posting my "Not quite formal enough for HN" stuff there, since I tend to be self conscious when posting stupid questions related to working on my startup alone to the general HN audience. It's not Hacker News' fault, I'm just to shy to put myself out in front of such a large audience most of the time.
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I just started a subreddit for solo founders: http://www.reddit.com/r/solostartups/ I'm going to start posting my "Not quite formal enough for HN" stuff there, since I tend to be self conscious when posting stupid questions related to working on my startup alone to the general HN audience. It's not Hacker News' fault, I'm just to shy to put myself out in front of such a large audience most of the time.
Please consider posting on aysabtu. I'm also a single founder and I'd really like to get more self posts going.
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We have exactly the same problem. (I'm a solo bootstrapper too). It sounds like I should just go ahead and start this entrepreneur forum that I'm envisioning.
no don't do that. if you are solo, you need to be focussed on what you are building. Creating something of HN scale would consume you and if you just want a community for few people, just add them to a mailing list or something.