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Ask HN: How do you find the local nerd community?
My background is unrelated to technology, and most of my friends tend to roll their eyes when I describe my project, but I've been tinkering on a web app over the past few months that I'd like to begin building into a startup. I know the likely hood of my project succeeding as a mono-founder is poor, so I'd like to meet up with a group of people that are technology-oriented and (maybe) recruit a co-founder. Unfortunately, I'm a relatively recent transplant to New York and have no idea how to do this. Has remote-conferencing and telecommuting made local usergroups obsolete? How have other mono-founders done it?
- noodle 18y agohttp://nyc.startupdrinks.com/ http://nyc.startupdrinks.com/ http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC4 http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC4 http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingNewYorkCity http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingNewYorkCity i'm sure there are others, too, i'm just not from NY so i can't comment in depth
- manvsmachine 18y agohttp://meetup.com http://meetup.com
- bootload 18y ago"... I'd like to meet up with a group of people that are technology-oriented ... recent transplant to New York ..." Might be worth checking out http://www.nycresistor.com http://www.nycresistor.com it provides a private workspace (something like $30/month) and project groups, accessing smart locals on Saturdays & Sundays. The events are here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/52408308?s=1 http://www.eventbrite.com/org/52408308?s=1 and you can read an NYT article ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/thecity/28tink.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/thecity/28tink.ht... There is also HN thread somewhere (I killed 'SearchYC.com' looking for it).