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Ask HN: Looking for small investment for a new coming soon HN Forum

1 points by shahedkhan30 15y ago

I'm looking for partners for a new project I'm working on, it will be a forum community board where not only HN users can post threads, but also YCombinator alumni's, and future applicants. I believe this is a great project, I'm looking for a small investment (-$150). Just to purchase a domain, hosting, and other plug-ins for the forum to get it started. If you are interested, please post below. This thread is for serious inquiries only!

shahedkhan30 15y ago
Also looking for some domain suggestions for the new forum! Has to be related to Hacker News and/or Y Combinator!
sorbus 15y ago
Previous discussion (on the initial proposal by shahedkhan30) at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311 There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm about the idea there - a mixture of discussion about the "build it first, then see if anyone is interested" mentality and people wondering what benefit it would provide. I'm sure it could work - a forum would make the "who is hiring" threads much, much easier, as they could be pinned so that they wouldn't vanish - I'm just not sure how easy it would be to get enough users to migrate, or use it in parallel to HN (which seems more likely). Sorry if I'm being too pessimistic. EDIT: It is definitely worth noting that the discussions was very low profile. It didn't hit the front page, and it fell off the front page of /ask really quickly. We haven't actually seen the opinion of the community as a whole, just that of a few people who happened to be around when the discussion was happening. So it's totally possible that there are enough people who would be enthusiastic about the idea to build up enough of a community and make it work. A side-note: the email field in your profile isn't public, and when you're soliciting inquiries it might be useful to have an email visible in the "about" area, which is publicly viewable.
duiker101 15y ago
i think hn doesn't need a forum, people cand sicuss here and this is the best place for discussion. Also a domain+hosting can be bought at very good prices anywhere so why don't you do it yourself? if the people will like it you might ask for donations but asking for money to open a forum seems very funny to me. HN is already a place to talk, why we need another?
shahedkhan30 15y ago
Well you guys have to realize, HN has a great Community, I was creating a community for YC rejects/fellows/and future applicants, along with an HN subgroup.

1 points by shahedkhan30 15y ago

shahedkhan30 15y ago

Also looking for some domain suggestions for the new forum! Has to be related to Hacker News and/or Y Combinator!

sorbus 15y ago

Previous discussion (on the initial proposal by shahedkhan30) at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311 There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm about the idea there - a mixture of discussion about the "build it first, then see if anyone is interested" mentality and people wondering what benefit it would provide. I'm sure it could work - a forum would make the "who is hiring" threads much, much easier, as they could be pinned so that they wouldn't vanish - I'm just not sure how easy it would be to get enough users to migrate, or use it in parallel to HN (which seems more likely). Sorry if I'm being too pessimistic. EDIT: It is definitely worth noting that the discussions was very low profile. It didn't hit the front page, and it fell off the front page of /ask really quickly. We haven't actually seen the opinion of the community as a whole, just that of a few people who happened to be around when the discussion was happening. So it's totally possible that there are enough people who would be enthusiastic about the idea to build up enough of a community and make it work. A side-note: the email field in your profile isn't public, and when you're soliciting inquiries it might be useful to have an email visible in the "about" area, which is publicly viewable.

duiker101 15y ago

i think hn doesn't need a forum, people cand sicuss here and this is the best place for discussion. Also a domain+hosting can be bought at very good prices anywhere so why don't you do it yourself? if the people will like it you might ask for donations but asking for money to open a forum seems very funny to me. HN is already a place to talk, why we need another?

shahedkhan30 15y ago

Well you guys have to realize, HN has a great Community, I was creating a community for YC rejects/fellows/and future applicants, along with an HN subgroup.