We Built a Hacker News for Biotech • Hacker News Board

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by m52go » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 1:13 AM UTC

I hope the developers didn't spend a whole lot of time on this.

Sacha Greif's telesc.pe makes this really, really easy and it's all real-time.

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by harvestmoon » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 2:02 AM UTC

ritchiea wrote: post #43

We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?

Inbound is reasonable and entertaining.

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by markkat » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 2:37 AM UTC

ritchiea wrote: post #43

We see 1 or 2 of these "Hacker News for X" sites a month. Have any of you succeeded and developed a community beyond the spike of interest you received making the HN frontpage?

We are going strong on http://hubski.com.

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by elwaz » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

Cool. Put you up there with Financier News

http://www.boredbanker.com/

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by semiel » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 5:27 AM UTC

Lambdanaut wrote: post #39

I think the biggest problem with the homebrew biotech world right now is that even with the labs opening up, there's still such a barrier to entry. There's a "hello world" to biotech, no doubt; extract some DNA from strawberries or explore the tiny world with a consumer microscope. But then what? There doesn't seem to be much potential mid-tier work to be done in biotech. In contrast with software where there is a ve…

I'm hopeful that Transcriptic[0] will be able to make a dent.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4...

Re: We Built a Hacker News for Biotech

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Post by physicistjedi » Fri, Mar 28, 2014, 6:28 PM UTC

Lambdanaut wrote: post #39

I think the biggest problem with the homebrew biotech world right now is that even with the labs opening up, there's still such a barrier to entry. There's a "hello world" to biotech, no doubt; extract some DNA from strawberries or explore the tiny world with a consumer microscope. But then what? There doesn't seem to be much potential mid-tier work to be done in biotech. In contrast with software where there is a ve…

I argue mostly but there are still some exceptions:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27680/...

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/02/06/sticking-it-to-the...

Also nowadays there are biotech incubators with all the basic equipment where you can rent a bench for around $2k/month.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n12/full/nm1213-1556.ht... [Paywall]