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I live in London and am currently trying to get my startup off the ground. I am also an avid reader of HN, and was considering going to last nights event. Due
by andysinclair 16y ago
I live in London and am currently trying to get my startup off the ground. I am also an avid reader of HN, and was considering going to last nights event.
Due to work pressures, i.e. launching soon, I saw it better to spend my time working on my startup than going to the HN event. I have 2 children, and work from home, so I need to grab any opportunity I can to work.
Also, there are now lots of startup events in London, and if you are busy then you really need to pick and choose which ones you go to. In my case I am going to the lean startup one next week, which I see as being currently more relevant (and maybe more useful) to me than the HN event.
- flog 16y agoWe're all busy working, I think is the answer. Like you I'm working away furiously trying to get the MVP out the door so we can start doing some testing. While I'm very positive about HN, I feel that in some ways attending stuff like HN meetups seems like a bit of a popularity contest, "look at me!".
- dmitri1981 16y agoI am not sure why you see socialising with fellow geeks in the real world as a popularity contest.