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Ask HN: Aussies, put your hands up

15 points by froo 17y ago

If you're an Aussie and HN user, say hi!

froo 17y ago
Perth here, contact details in my profile if you want to chat about whatever
dp79 17y ago
Hi! Brisbane here
nailer 17y ago
London here.
hungrybeast 17y ago
Melbourne here!
intranation 17y ago
Hello, London (originally Sydney) here.
candeira 17y ago
Melbourne (originally Madrid) here.
niko1 17y ago
Just moved to Brisbane to start a startup.
- thenbrent 17y ago
  Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here? At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)
  - dmharrison 17y ago
    I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner. Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar. My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)
    - thenbrent 17y ago
      Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture. That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?
inevaexisted 17y ago
Sydney!! Hi... looking for an internship/grad position(final year).
zacspitzer 17y ago
melbourne!
joshd 17y ago
London (by way of Brisbane).
codemoran 17y ago
* codemoran puts his hand up <codemoran> sydney here.
Evgeny 17y ago
Melbourne. No plans on startups though.
pedrogrande 17y ago
Hi! I'm a lurker from Bondi. Chasing the dream.
samh 17y ago
Canberra here. (I'm not Julia Gillard, but sometimes on Call of Duty servers I pretend to be).
Kreels 17y ago
Sydney North West. Lisp Hacker. Lurking.
GVRV 17y ago
Melbourne. Student at Monash University. From India.
thejay 17y ago
Sydney lower north shore. Recharging for another startup.
jgoosdh 17y ago
Hi! Just north of Sydney.I love AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean's (aka a Java hacker)
zengyro 17y ago
do expats count? Melbournian living in Scotland.
pmccool 17y ago
Hi! Brisbane here.
deleted 17y ago
[deleted]
shib71 17y ago
Sydney
ajt 17y ago
Brisneyland
abdulla 17y ago
Melbourne here.
dmharrison 17y ago
Brisbane, hi! Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?
- JacobAldridge 17y ago
  Another Brisbane boy here. HN meetup would be great, since we seem to have a few locals. I can probably organise a casual venue one evening in the Valley? Maybe chip in for some drinks or dinner?
  - dmharrison 17y ago
    I'd definitely be in.
  - thenbrent 17y ago
    I'd be keen for that too. There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/ http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/
    - JacobAldridge 17y ago
      Good to know. I'll be checking that out, and if it seems worth having something HN specific (or, more particularly, HN marketed) I'll put up a post here and drop a line to those Brisbanites mentioned in this post.
    - dmharrison 17y ago
      Thanks, signed up.
spohlenz 17y ago
Currently living in Clare but I'm in town often enough to say I'm from Adelaide.
dreamtime 17y ago
melbourne
gbc 17y ago
Canberra. Rails. Hi.
ryszard99 17y ago
sydney!!
Aidan 17y ago
Melbourne!
benkant 17y ago
Perth repping.
latent 17y ago
Brisbane developer, into govt research mostly. Involved with humbug (unix/linux), brispy (python), dorkbot (arts/eletronics), the edge (creative/design/tech), hackerspace (engineering/electronics), linux.conf.au and other things most likely :) cheers,

15 points by froo 17y ago

If you're an Aussie and HN user, say hi!

froo 17y ago

Perth here, contact details in my profile if you want to chat about whatever

dp79 17y ago

Hi! Brisbane here

nailer 17y ago

London here.

hungrybeast 17y ago

Melbourne here!

intranation 17y ago

Hello, London (originally Sydney) here.

candeira 17y ago

Melbourne (originally Madrid) here.

niko1 17y ago

Just moved to Brisbane to start a startup.

thenbrent 17y ago
Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here? At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)
- dmharrison 17y ago
  I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner. Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar. My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)
  - thenbrent 17y ago
    Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture. That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a startup. What's here that isn't elsewhere?

inevaexisted 17y ago

Sydney!! Hi... looking for an internship/grad position(final year).

zacspitzer 17y ago

melbourne!

joshd 17y ago

London (by way of Brisbane).

codemoran 17y ago

* codemoran puts his hand up <codemoran> sydney here.

Evgeny 17y ago

Melbourne. No plans on startups though.

pedrogrande 17y ago

Hi! I'm a lurker from Bondi. Chasing the dream.

samh 17y ago

Canberra here. (I'm not Julia Gillard, but sometimes on Call of Duty servers I pretend to be).

Kreels 17y ago

Sydney North West. Lisp Hacker. Lurking.

GVRV 17y ago

Melbourne. Student at Monash University. From India.

thejay 17y ago

Sydney lower north shore. Recharging for another startup.

jgoosdh 17y ago

Hi! Just north of Sydney.I love AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean's (aka a Java hacker)

zengyro 17y ago

do expats count? Melbournian living in Scotland.

pmccool 17y ago

Hi! Brisbane here.

deleted 17y ago

[deleted]

shib71 17y ago

Sydney

ajt 17y ago

Brisneyland

abdulla 17y ago

Melbourne here.

dmharrison 17y ago

Brisbane, hi! Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?

JacobAldridge 17y ago
Another Brisbane boy here. HN meetup would be great, since we seem to have a few locals. I can probably organise a casual venue one evening in the Valley? Maybe chip in for some drinks or dinner?
- dmharrison 17y ago
  I'd definitely be in.
- thenbrent 17y ago
  I'd be keen for that too. There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/ http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/
  - JacobAldridge 17y ago
    Good to know. I'll be checking that out, and if it seems worth having something HN specific (or, more particularly, HN marketed) I'll put up a post here and drop a line to those Brisbanites mentioned in this post.
  - dmharrison 17y ago
    Thanks, signed up.

spohlenz 17y ago

Currently living in Clare but I'm in town often enough to say I'm from Adelaide.

dreamtime 17y ago

melbourne

gbc 17y ago

Canberra. Rails. Hi.

ryszard99 17y ago

sydney!!

Aidan 17y ago

Melbourne!

benkant 17y ago

Perth repping.

latent 17y ago

Brisbane developer, into govt research mostly. Involved with humbug (unix/linux), brispy (python), dorkbot (arts/eletronics), the edge (creative/design/tech), hackerspace (engineering/electronics), linux.conf.au and other things most likely :) cheers,