Ask HN: How to reach out to hackers and CS students in India and Brazil?

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Post by tzgur8 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

Building a new product for hackers & CS students and need beta testers.

We got some US users. However, we also want to see how users from other large non-US hacker communities, such as India and Brazil, interact with the product. Any idea or info about online communities, forums, Facebook groups etc will help.

Thank you!

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:22 PM UTC

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Post by maha_funk » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:24 PM UTC

Sites like this work fine. Also a post to /r/programming or /r/India /r/Brazil would work.

Btw, what is your product ?

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Post by bra-ket » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:24 PM UTC

elance, freelancer etc. hire them as beta testers.

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Post by rajdroid » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:36 PM UTC

I think HN is good but everybody doesn't use it at least in North India.

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Post by lnk2w » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

You can try to reach the usergroups we have here. Like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-sp is the official group of Ruby Developers in São Paulo. You can also look for public universities, here in Brazil they have the best courses of CS and IT related in the country.

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Post by arkj » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 4:14 PM UTC

you can ask here on this HN clone " rel="nofollow">http://hackerstreet.in> too

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Post by pramodliv1 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 4:25 PM UTC

Quora is popular among Indian CS students.

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Post by amjd » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

Reddit is a good place as already suggested by someone.

Also, I'm an Indian CS student. PM me if I can help.

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Post by vishalzone2002 » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:34 PM UTC

how and where did you get your US users? I wonder why would that channel not work for other hacker/cs people. programmer is a community of its own powered by internet so i would guess they would all use the same channel?. like stack overflow, etc.