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Where are the Indian hackers at?

5 points by shabda 16y ago

shabda 16y ago
Hacker News India is about creating a space where Startups from India can meet other people trying to bootstrap their startup. 1. Discuss issues local to Indian startups. 2. Orgainise in person meetups of HN readers in India. We are more technology and hacker focussed than other startup group.
- awa 16y ago
  Bad choice to go with Google groups: "Google Groups will no longer be supporting the Pages and Files features. Starting January 13, you won't be able to upload new content, but you will still be able to view and download existing content. See this announcement for more information and other options for storing your content."
  - shabda 16y ago
    True, but only the Pages and files feature discussions are not going anywhere, and its the low effort way to get a discussion forum and mailing list setup.
- kapilkaisare 16y ago
  IMO, issue 1 should be dealt with over here. Always a good idea to gain perspectives on people from other countries. Issue 2 can probably be dealt with better on meetup.com. However, I'd personally rather see it here.
jarsj 16y ago
please stop creating such groups. What do you want to do that can not be done at HN ?
- shabda 16y ago
  Focus. I don't think the discussion of Fund Raising in Bangalore would be interesting to all HN users, but I think it will be interesting to people from India, so I would like to have such a focussed group. Also there are many Focussed groups of HN users on Google group. http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:groups.google.com+hacker+news http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
  - jarsj 16y ago
    Can you point me to atleast one "active" group out there ? http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news, check out the post frequency, member size etc. The use cases you mention are very few and can be easily addressed with HN tags. Example : "HN India : Fundraising event in Bangalore ?" or "HN India : Let's have a meetup in Mumbai." If it's interesting to indian HNers they will upvote it and follow it up. Realize, that starting a group is easy, building a tribe around it is not. There are many things that made people come to HN, Paul Graham, Ycombinator, Startup School, a custom and simple software. Good content came later.
twapi 16y ago
you created a group another day, posted link on a US-centered website, and expecting Indians to join.
- shabda 16y ago
  1. India is second largest visitor to HN after US. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com . (Alexa might not be great, but its the best source I can find right now.) 2. There is no group focusing on HN readers from India, so why shouldn't I do it. (And hope people will join.)
greatgoof 16y ago
I think its a bloody good idea. Just joined. But wondering if google groups was a good choice. I'm finding it quite slow, probably transient, hoping it will pass.

5 points by shabda 16y ago

Hacker News India is about creating a space where Startups from India can meet other people trying to bootstrap their startup. 1. Discuss issues local to Indian startups. 2. Orgainise in person meetups of HN readers in India. We are more technology and hacker focussed than other startup group.

awa 16y ago
Bad choice to go with Google groups: "Google Groups will no longer be supporting the Pages and Files features. Starting January 13, you won't be able to upload new content, but you will still be able to view and download existing content. See this announcement for more information and other options for storing your content."
- shabda 16y ago
  True, but only the Pages and files feature discussions are not going anywhere, and its the low effort way to get a discussion forum and mailing list setup.
kapilkaisare 16y ago
IMO, issue 1 should be dealt with over here. Always a good idea to gain perspectives on people from other countries. Issue 2 can probably be dealt with better on meetup.com. However, I'd personally rather see it here.

jarsj 16y ago

please stop creating such groups. What do you want to do that can not be done at HN ?

shabda 16y ago
Focus. I don't think the discussion of Fund Raising in Bangalore would be interesting to all HN users, but I think it will be interesting to people from India, so I would like to have such a focussed group. Also there are many Focussed groups of HN users on Google group. http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:groups.google.com+hacker+news http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...
- jarsj 16y ago
  Can you point me to atleast one "active" group out there ? http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news, check out the post frequency, member size etc. The use cases you mention are very few and can be easily addressed with HN tags. Example : "HN India : Fundraising event in Bangalore ?" or "HN India : Let's have a meetup in Mumbai." If it's interesting to indian HNers they will upvote it and follow it up. Realize, that starting a group is easy, building a tribe around it is not. There are many things that made people come to HN, Paul Graham, Ycombinator, Startup School, a custom and simple software. Good content came later.

twapi 16y ago

you created a group another day, posted link on a US-centered website, and expecting Indians to join.

shabda 16y ago
1. India is second largest visitor to HN after US. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com . (Alexa might not be great, but its the best source I can find right now.) 2. There is no group focusing on HN readers from India, so why shouldn't I do it. (And hope people will join.)

greatgoof 16y ago

I think its a bloody good idea. Just joined. But wondering if google groups was a good choice. I'm finding it quite slow, probably transient, hoping it will pass.