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Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there? Hands up if you have an English-

Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there? Hands up if you have an English-language website in which the US is not the largest segment of users?

freyfogle 15y ago
I have several - one for the UK, one for India (in English) and one for Australia. Each targets the local audience and gets negligible usage from the US. It's a big world. Most English speakers don't live in the US. Not even most native English speakers live in the US.
rayhano 15y ago
It is nice to hear about Stripe, but useless to me as only available to US users. I want to hear about GoCardless and not have to search through to see what is relevant to me and what I can access. Plus, if I am based in Paris, I want people in Paris to quickly respond to a plea for help.
Silhouette 15y ago
> Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. With the greatest respect, that kind of silly assumption is exactly why a Euro-centric HN-style site is potentially interesting to those of us here in Europe. I can think of numerous ideas for businesses aimed at a particular kind of culture or niche interest where the US probably wouldn't be a particularly big market. In any case, there are more people in Europe than the US, and a very high proportion of them speak English with impressive fluency even if it's not their native language. And while we have quite distinct national identities, we also have many things in common that are relevant to a business/tech audience and quite different from how things work in, say, North America or Asia.
- angersock 15y ago
  So, if you already speak the language, why not use your larger demographic to promote more relevant articles here on HN? We benefit from having another perspective represented here more than we do from having it shown in some other far-flung echochamber on the web. Or is the idea of melting pot a bit much for you old country folks? :)
  - manmal 15y ago
    We do ;) There are many Europeans here on HN. For my taste, there could be more europe-centric news on HN, but again, how would US hackers support that? They are as bored of articles on Germany's public transport system as I am of articles on AT&T being unfair to their customers. By melting pot, do you mean the US or Europe? They technically both are..
    - angersock 15y ago
      I think getting the articles up there would at least give us a chance to see something we might not otherwise see--say, a German startup innovating in ticketing or something. As for the melting pot, was a bit of a joke--the perception here is commonly that the US is a big diverse thingy whereas Europe, while diverse, is mostly diverse in terms of the amount of Europeans it has. :)
- hessenwolf 15y ago
  Incidentally, I'm an Irishman in Germany, and here's the usage for the main site I work on. We didn't look for an American market. Do people have very different experiences? 1. United States 29.69% 2. India 6.76% 3. (not set) 6.57% 4. United Kingdom 5.56% 5. Canada 4.05% 6. Germany 2.86% 7. France 2.36% 8. Australia 2.15% 9. Italy 1.86% 10. Japan 1.86%

freyfogle 15y ago

I have several - one for the UK, one for India (in English) and one for Australia. Each targets the local audience and gets negligible usage from the US. It's a big world. Most English speakers don't live in the US. Not even most native English speakers live in the US.

rayhano 15y ago

It is nice to hear about Stripe, but useless to me as only available to US users. I want to hear about GoCardless and not have to search through to see what is relevant to me and what I can access. Plus, if I am based in Paris, I want people in Paris to quickly respond to a plea for help.

Silhouette 15y ago

> Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. With the greatest respect, that kind of silly assumption is exactly why a Euro-centric HN-style site is potentially interesting to those of us here in Europe. I can think of numerous ideas for businesses aimed at a particular kind of culture or niche interest where the US probably wouldn't be a particularly big market. In any case, there are more people in Europe than the US, and a very high proportion of them speak English with impressive fluency even if it's not their native language. And while we have quite distinct national identities, we also have many things in common that are relevant to a business/tech audience and quite different from how things work in, say, North America or Asia.

angersock 15y ago
So, if you already speak the language, why not use your larger demographic to promote more relevant articles here on HN? We benefit from having another perspective represented here more than we do from having it shown in some other far-flung echochamber on the web. Or is the idea of melting pot a bit much for you old country folks? :)
- manmal 15y ago
  We do ;) There are many Europeans here on HN. For my taste, there could be more europe-centric news on HN, but again, how would US hackers support that? They are as bored of articles on Germany's public transport system as I am of articles on AT&T being unfair to their customers. By melting pot, do you mean the US or Europe? They technically both are..
  - angersock 15y ago
    I think getting the articles up there would at least give us a chance to see something we might not otherwise see--say, a German startup innovating in ticketing or something. As for the melting pot, was a bit of a joke--the perception here is commonly that the US is a big diverse thingy whereas Europe, while diverse, is mostly diverse in terms of the amount of Europeans it has. :)
hessenwolf 15y ago
Incidentally, I'm an Irishman in Germany, and here's the usage for the main site I work on. We didn't look for an American market. Do people have very different experiences? 1. United States 29.69% 2. India 6.76% 3. (not set) 6.57% 4. United Kingdom 5.56% 5. Canada 4.05% 6. Germany 2.86% 7. France 2.36% 8. Australia 2.15% 9. Italy 1.86% 10. Japan 1.86%