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Ask HN: Where do Chinese and Indian developers spent most of their time online?

31 points by testing_1_2_3_4 ↗ HN
Do Chinese and Indian developers primarily spend most of their time online in the same places as US/European developers, or are there similar sites that I'm just not aware of? I'm thinking places like Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, etc.

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abhinavk
Indian Engineer here.

We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.

testing_1_2_3_4
Are there any others that are primarily Indian-centric that a US developer might not know about?
jason2323
Not really. Indian devs afaik use the same websites Americans do (probably has to do with English being lingua franca in tech in India as well)
markus_zhang
Chinese:

v2ex (close to HN) zhihu (close to quora) Stackoverflow github (joked as gayhub)

testing_1_2_3_4
> v2ex

I've heard of v2ex before, I'll sign up now. Thank you! :)

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balancesoggy
Indian dev here. Nothing country specific. Stackoverflow mostly. Just google and whatever solves your problem. We are not community builders that work at scale.
sumanthvepa
As an Indian dev, I've always wondered if there would ever be a homegrown tech site. For hiring at least, sites like HasGeek are popular (at least Bangalore.) I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.
_448
> I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.

How is the UPI API? Is it any good?

jace
I made Hasjob and Hasgeek, which are separate, but seeing as how everyone refers to Hasjob as Hasgeek, they're going to be merged in a bit.

All feedback and ideas welcome.

throwaway158497
As an Indian, I can tell you that we pretty much use the exact same sites as India. We are well versed in English, so for every use case you can think of, we use usual American sites. For Newspapers, we use India specific sites like hindu.com

Many of us understand American politics better than Indian politics :D

theowenyoung
Chinese here, to be honest, I don’t think there are communities with an atmosphere like hn and reddit in China, including v2ex.com, zhihu.com mentioned in other replies.

I like hn, and many subreddits, but at the same time I also have language problems, So I created https://www.buzzing.cc , which collected many popular discussions in English communities, then translate all titles in Chinese and Japanese, approximately 3000 users visit per day.