Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?
I found some old and inactive meetup and eventbrite groups but are there any in person? I went to a hackathon event before covid that was incredible and I was hoping similar "energy" still existed.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 258 ms ] threadI’m not spitting at hackathon type events, but let’s be real — they target recent grads.
I’d love to be proven wrong on this, because I’d promptly attend the events that I don’t believe exist.
Is that still a thing?
User opens app, makes a possible meetup that s/he is into , it then shows up on the map as just the title of the Group, along with maybe an interest count of initially 0.
If others click on it enough, the original users gets notified that this 'has momentum' and whether or not they want to schedule an actual get together. If they do, all other people are notified of the event.
like meetup.com, but the emphasis is on the location.
Is that what you were thinking ?
Here's meetup link for more info: https://www.meetup.com/valpo-hacks-meetup/. If anyone has questions, my email is my HN username @gmail.com.
How much personal opportunity cost is acceptable before it becomes worth using a platform you don't like...?
Remember that even if it your life's sole goal to eliminate the use of that platform worldwide, you will probably achieve more if you take every opportunity possible, including those gatekept by the platform you don't like...
There is no ideological reason behind it.
Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation.
You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.
Also, I doubt that most people are going to focus on the pandemic at this point. It depends on where one lives, but even in LA most people have long since moved on from it, and no one wants to hear it at an IRL meetup revival.
Meet up is the experts exchange of social planning.
e.g, the Tokyo meetup is still a thing, met back in July: https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/138928
I can host!
Sounds like we could take over Discovery Park and call it good. :)
it wishes it was Austin. ;-)
[1] https://www.when2meet.com/?16905460-DWxNb
Here's a link to a Discord server if it helps coordinate logistics [2].
[1] https://goo.gl/maps/ggB652V1KxivQ8Xn7
[2] https://discord.gg/2Aqh2rxF
Once upon a time HN was about creating things.
Create a meetup and see what happens? There's a lot of cool stuff you'd learn doing that.
See what other locations people around you use for meetups. Run one and iterate. Start as open as possible.
Started out /s, but upon consideration I imagine YC really is the closest you could get to the spirit of HN in an in-person meetup.
Didn't realise the whole thing ended up not happening at all in the end ...
looking forward to the next one!
You and everyone else has the same opinion, thus nobody pays.
Details + rsvp: https://meetu.ps/e/LqXw7/gz2nM/i
I have created a Hacker News Meetup for Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-zxkdpjmb/
It looks like enough people are interested in different parts of the Bay Area that we can alternate meetups in SF and in South Bay/Peninsula.
If anyone will like to help out or can donate space to meetup, please email me - my profile here has my contact details.
Definitely shoot me an invite if you set something up. Even if it's Tampa or wherever I'd probably be down to drive.
1 - https://orlandodevs.com/slack/
2 - https://www.tampadevs.com/
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