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Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

768 points by sirobg 2y ago

Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I have fewer than a handful of friends who are as curious and eager to think and reflect as the people on HN. Also, the city I currently live in is more focused on industry than on technology and entrepreneurship, which are core to HN. This led me to want to meet the HN community IRL. After trying `site:news.ycombinator.com/user toulouse` on Google and getting only one result, I decided to create meet.hn. My first goal with this is to meet at least one HN member in my city: Toulouse, France. If you are ever in the area, hit me up! I'm sirobg at https://meet.hn/city/fr-Toulouse https://meet.hn/city/fr-Toulouse Additional details: - meet.hn has a twitter page: https://x.com/meet_hn https://x.com/meet_hn. If you meet IRL thanks to meet.hn, don't hesitate to tag it with a picture, it would mean the world to me. - the code is open source: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn - meet.hn integrates with https://at.hn/ https://at.hn/ from @padolsey (https://padolsey.at.hn/ https://padolsey.at.hn/), registered on meet.hn at https://meet.hn/city/cn-Beijing https://meet.hn/city/cn-Beijing Finally, many thanks to these people for their help and/or feedbacks! Ordered alphabetically: - https://x.com/ericbureltech https://x.com/ericbureltech - https://x.com/fredkisss https://x.com/fredkisss - https://x.com/JulienDuquesne1 https://x.com/JulienDuquesne1 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbasseto/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbasseto/ - https://x.com/lcswillems https://x.com/lcswillems - https://x.com/leeerob https://x.com/leeerob - https://x.com/padolsey https://x.com/padolsey - https://x.com/tomlienard https://x.com/tomlienard I hope you will enjoy this! Please share any feedback in the comments.

skeltoac 2y ago
- Great idea, thanks for sharing! - country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states - what harsh reputation? :)
- sirobg 2y ago
  - Thank you very much! - Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already. Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data. This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&country=${rawCountry}&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion, please do share it! - Every time I speak with people about HN, I get something along the line: "They criticize everything, and very easily".
  - djbusby 2y ago
    > They criticize everything, and very easily I think that is a feature, not a bug.
    - atmanactive 2y ago
      Absolutely a feature.
    - dylan604 2y ago
      It's also confusion that reporting of a bug is not criticism. It's a Show HN. You've asked for the feedback. People that get twisted when the feedback is anything other than pablum like "great job" need not be a developer. If you can't handle being told that something isn't working, then how do you ever expect to improve? Or maybe you've moved from being a dev and are now trying to be a founder?
      - deleted 2y ago
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    - sirobg 2y ago
      I 100% agree
  - berdon 2y ago
mynameyeff 2y ago
Very cool!
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you very much!
hk__2 2y ago
Congratulations on this! One remark: it seems you forgot to make the repo public; I get a 404 on https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thanks! And you were right, sorry! It is fixed: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn
Aachen 2y ago
> No meet.hn data found for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update. My account exists since 2020, why would the HN API (which, if you click the link at the bottom of every page, says "near real time") not know my account? I'm curious how this error occurs For anyone else having this, the "add me" button will enable itself again, but it does take a while. Not that retrying seems to work for me Edit: nvm I'm being stupid, I did not see the "copy and paste the text below into your HN account" instruction. Thanks also to those who replied with that info, though while playing with the browser dev tools to figure out what the issue might be, I spotted that text eventually
- lifty 2y ago
  You have to add the link to your bio. It’s a way for the app to verify that you want to be added to the map
- gdcbe 2y ago
  For me it only worked after I added their form text to my hn account description on my actual hn account page…
joe8756438 2y ago
Nice work! I live in a rural area, would be great to know the local HNers!
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you! Yes I created this because I had that exact wish
delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
> City not found. Make sure you use the format: City, Country (Paris, France) It might be good to rework this—cities only, and provide a drop-down box for users to select. Having city, country is a bit superfluous for people who live in city-states.
- rafram 2y ago
  You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
  - delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
    I meant a text box that users could type in, and a drop-down that returned filtered results from the input.
  - salomonk_mur 2y ago
    Yes, that is the standard UI for this problem. You select a country, then that loads a the country's divisions ilfor another select box, and that load the cities for that division. Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.
    - rafram 2y ago
      I see that UI on some European sites. It’s basically nonfunctional for the US, at least. (Especially the latter approach with no “division” narrowing.) There are hundreds of towns with duplicate names, people might want to use region names that don’t exist politically (“Bay Area”), and people can be in incorporated towns (San Francisco) or unincorporated areas that get assigned Census Bureau names based on usage (Bay Point). There is just no way to create an autocomplete list that encompasses every valid place, and it’s a waste of time to try.
- sebastiennight 2y ago
  I'm afraid there are... 1,700+ cities[0] in the world called "San José" That's quite a bit of scrolling you'd be forcing those people to do. [0]: https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-most-common-city-name/ https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-most-comm...
noninc 2y ago
Good idea! I wish you also added Mastodon to the socials.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you very much! Will add
dewey 2y ago
Looks cool! I've used the search or meetup.com before for this use case when I'm traveling, but meetup.com is slowly going away it seems. Feature Requests: - Mastodon support in the social dropdown - Auto complete on the location selector
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thanks a lot for the feedbacks! - will add! - will add as well! I wanted something simple to launch quick and see if the project was of interest. It seems it is, so I will implement it!
  - dkekenflxlf 2y ago
    Check GeoNames.org for this task
- tetris11 2y ago
  +1 for mastodon also orcid or google scholar
  - sirobg 2y ago
    Didn't know about orcid! And good idea for google scholar, thanks for sharing!
amadeuspagel 2y ago
Great idea. I think it would be cool if you couldn't just add socials but a personal webpage and email (with mailto link).
- sirobg 2y ago
  Good idea, thanks! I was scared to allow any URL, to be honest. That's why I restricted this to a set of allowed domains. But as it's open source maybe I'll have the chance to get it pair reviewed before shipping it if this gets traction.
  - amadeuspagel 2y ago
    Two more things on the socials: - Most socials use square icons, but Cal.com uses the logo, so it breaks the layout. - I think it's worth adding YouTube, not just YouTube Music.
KingOfCoders 2y ago
Not working for me. Tried ~10 times.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry this happened. Could you share what you tried? Maybe this video can help? https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 If you prefer not to share publicly, you can also share your feedback here: https://meet.hn/feedback https://meet.hn/feedback
  - KingOfCoders 2y ago
    Not on X sorry. Nothing happend. The error message is not helpful at all (can it connect? Does it find the user? Does it find the data in the about section? What URL was it trying? etc.) but said it wanted to wait a minute for the API. User since 2020 (with this account) [Edit] Tried again it now says "No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update." [Edit2] Works now, the other reply about the space made me think. I didn't use identical Uppercase/Lowercase. Hmm.
- nhatcher 2y ago
  Make sure your handle doesn't have a space at the end. That was my problem
phoe-krk 2y ago
When I type in "Kraków, Poland", I get meet.hn/city/pl-undefined. Does your code handle diacritics correctly?
- BuckYeah 2y ago
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- sirobg 2y ago
  Well, congrats on finding the second bug! Thanks! This one is pretty big, even as big as it's funny. > Does your code handle diacritics correctly? It seems it doesn't, no. Sorry for this. It's my first attempt at an international product. To give you more details, I'm using this query to fetch cities data: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&country=${rawCountry}&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I probably shouldn't have restricted accept-language to en-US. I'll investigate and make this work.
  - phoe-krk 2y ago
    No problem. As a Polish person, it is my duty to find zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs in other people's code.
    - coolThingsFirst 2y ago
      You are the mvp
    - sirobg 2y ago
      > zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs If this does mean something it's even more hilarious!
      - klyrs 2y ago
        https://hrrsd.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/polish-diacritics/ https://hrrsd.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/polish-diacritics/
monkin 2y ago
Nice! You could add a feature to organize and host a meeting or contact people in some way. :-)
- Aachen 2y ago
  Perhaps it could show a reminder to have an email address in one's profile? That's recommended in general anyway
  - monkin 2y ago
    It would be more useful to have a button in each city to propose a meeting—no need to email anyone. You suggest a meeting, people can join or propose changes. That's it. :<
    - Aachen 2y ago
      So everyone who signed up would need to check this site, is the idea?
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you! Yes I would love to. I'll have to think of the best way to add this. If you have any suggestion please do share it!
VoltCraft 2y ago
Cool! will you add social link for youtube? https://www.youtube.com/@VCmakes https://www.youtube.com/@VCmakes
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thanks! Will do!
sickcodebruh 2y ago
This is neat. I added myself. I'm hitting a bug where clicking New York just refreshes the page instead of loading the city's page. Los Angeles, San José, and... most cities seem to exhibit it. Chicago seems to work? Picking a city was tough. It insisted on the more general New York instead of the more specific Long Island City.
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
This is a great idea, and I sincerely want it to work out. For myself, I'll probably not use it, but that's because I'm an "old," and I stopped attending local meetups, because I was always surrounded by a circle of avoidance, where no one would look at me, or have anything to do with me. Got a bit tiresome, but it's the way of the world, I guess. For non-olds, these meetups are great, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
- asimpleusecase 2y ago
  Need a “wise old dudes” meet up and charge those under 40 to attend- few 20 to 30 year olds understand how much of value they could get from an “old dude” for the price of a beer/coffee.
  - gtirloni 2y ago
    As I get older, the "old wise dude" myth fades more every day. I rarely meet wise old people, it's quite the opposite actually. Not saying there aren't any, buy I would avoid conflating old and wise together.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
      Absolutely. However, it seems that most folks conflate "older" (which is getting increasingly younger -I encounter folks in their early forties that can't get interviews), and "useless." Funny. We're doing pretty well at opening up the industry to folks from many ethnic backgrounds, and women, but the industry actively encourages ageism. Most of the "reasons" end up falling flat, upon closer inspection. It just seems that gray hair makes people uncomfortable. I guess it always has, but in the Days of Yore, corporations were usually run by older folks, so we had to work with them (I didn't always have gray hair, myself -spoiler: We all get a turn at this wheel).
      - gtirloni 2y ago
        Indeed, ageism is a serious issue. And it seems out of touch with an ageing society in most countries. I'm not young anymore either and my experience job hunting has been that I get invited to fewer initial interviews, but when I am, the whole process is much much easier for myself than a decade ago. Onboarding is also much faster.
spencerchubb 2y ago
There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
- guitarsteve 2y ago
  Same
- sirobg 2y ago
  I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
  - lolinder 2y ago
    It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. Most of them are small, but 5 of them (Massachusetts, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Ohio) have more the 20k residents. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield
    - rootusrootus 2y ago
      > It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict The irony is that a lot of our city names came from Europe.
    - chgs 2y ago
      Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales. I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight. Reused names isn’t just an American thing.
jppittma 2y ago
mark my words, this will be worse than the reddit meetups.
- johndunne 2y ago
  I think it depends on how you use HN. I try to contribute positively in the comments and enjoy the learning aspect of the HN community. Shit posters might not want to join the train.
- RobRivera 2y ago
  I tried a reddit meetup once. Once
- lifesaver_mint 2y ago
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mynameyeff 2y ago
you should probably use some kind of API to help people input their city/country.
- sirobg 2y ago
  I do, I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap. I used a simple API call for the sake of simplicity, but now that the product is out, I'll probably switch to something more robust.
  - mynameyeff 2y ago
    gotcha... maybe the API was slow... i didn't get address suggestions when inputting y city's name
    - sirobg 2y ago
      Sorry I misunderstood what you meant. Now there is a proper location search box with address suggestions and stuff.
alok-g 2y ago
Have signed up. It says there's another signup from my location, but is failing to show me. It just redirects to the home page. It is showing for another city, so perhaps due to the space in the name? Thanks. meet.hn/city/in-New Delhi
- sirobg 2y ago
  Should be fixed for New Delhi now: https://meet.hn/city/in-New-Delhi https://meet.hn/city/in-New-Delhi Sorry for this, and thanks for reporting!
  - alok-g 2y ago
    No worries. I've updated in my profile too. Thanks.
  - freedomben 2y ago
    I'm getting similar, but can see a 404 in the dev tools when trying to view the hacker in Coeur-d'Alene: https://meet.hn/city/us-Coeur-d'Alene https://meet.hn/city/us-Coeur-d'Alene I can't tell if it's being URL encoded or not, so that's a possibility. I imagine most cities don't have apostrophes in the name so it might be an edge case.
grishka 2y ago
Feature request: please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account. Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg.
- sirobg 2y ago
  > please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account Didn't know about fediverse! Thanks for sharing. > Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg. Yeah I was dumb enough not to handle spaces in city names... Saint Petersburg is fixed now, and most should be as well, but not all. I implemented some kind of quick fix for now, but I will investigate further when this settles down a bit. Thanks for reporting!
lucastech 2y ago
I really like this idea. I've wanted to build something to bring startup/remote work people in my area together for a while. I bought a few domains but couldn't figure out the hook. Smart idea to build it as part of the HN userbase, since that is the userbase you want for something like this! Great work
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you very much!
josmar 2y ago
Feature request: delta.chat contact field, the best of the decentralised free software messengers Easy to have multiple identities for public and private use
dualogy 2y ago
Bug alert: while clicking on the Seoul 'M' does work, listing its (currently 1) hackers, the close-by Pyongyang doesn't (despite also having "1 hacker" registered).
- DistractionRect 2y ago
  Similar issue here. Clicking some of them works, and other don't (E.g. Irvine works, Los Angeles doesn't)
- sirobg 2y ago
  Should be working since a few days!
bschmidt1 2y ago
Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).
- under-Peter 2y ago
  I suspect the current situation is mostly due to timezones and as the west coast wakes up we‘ll see more cities appear there. It’ll probably take a few days until you can deduce anything about hn-users in general from that map. And thanks for the comment - made me look outside my immediate surroundings on the map!
- narag 2y ago
  If you're living in SF area, you have an IRL social aggregator. We in WE appreciate HN more with its warts and all.
  - bschmidt1 2y ago
    "IRL social" in SF hahah
    - narag 2y ago
      Point taken :)
edverma2 2y ago
very cool! I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. I'm sure many will come.
- albybisy 2y ago
  people are still sleeping
- sirobg 2y ago
  > very cool! Thank you very much! > I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. Surprised as well! So much so that I signed up in SF myself to make sure it was working as expected
pveierland 2y ago
Looks nice! +1 for storing data in a human-readable representation on existing user profiles. No extra account needed + information has value outside meet.hn + information has value even if site goes away.
CalRobert 2y ago
Awesome! I've been hoping to find something like this. Would be great if I could add a Mastodon profile.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you! Mastodon has been requested several times, will add!
  - CalRobert 2y ago
    Great! My pin disappeared though? I changed my city, maybe that’s why
    - sirobg 2y ago
      I had some caching issues, so I think it might have been that, sorry! Probably didn't got stuck very long though (at least I hope!). https://meet.hn/city/52.2241375,5.1719396/Hilversum https://meet.hn/city/52.2241375,5.1719396/Hilversum Just check and at least I can see you now!
johndunne 2y ago
Very cool! I think many will be reticent to divulge social information on here! Looking forward to seeing this grow.
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atmanactive 2y ago
What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.
- TekMol 2y ago
  What abuse? Your HN profile is public anyhow. All this does is show who put a city in their profile. You could find those via Google as well.
  - atmanactive 2y ago
    I misunderstood then. I thought this is a brand new data collector. Thank you.
    - atmanactive 2y ago
      In fact, it is a brand new data collector. It's encouraging HN account holders to geo-tag themselves and to put that information in the publicly available HN account profile. This profile is, more or less, blank by default.
- donatj 2y ago
  It's all data you chose to share publicly. I wouldn't have put myself on the map if I hadn't been comfortable doing so.
- RadiozRadioz 2y ago
  > hide the names unless visitor is logged in I hate websites that do this. People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.
  - atmanactive 2y ago
    Why do you care if the screen shows 5 people in city X (which is not your city anyway)? What use do you have of knowing exact names of people in city X half way acros the globe?
johndunne 2y ago
Perhaps a notification when new signups occur in the same area? Or when people near you with shared interests.
pzo 2y ago
awesome idea. Would be great to have in maps view some adaptive clustering with number inside similar like nomadlist members map: https://nomads.com/community https://nomads.com/community Also for those that nomading and changing places often would be good to have option to share location via WebLocation but make it randomized on the backend or even better in frontend (so that it's approximate to e.g 5-10km radius)
r_singh 2y ago
I’m getting the following error: “No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update.“ https://imgur.com/a/B1u4ZXA https://imgur.com/a/B1u4ZXA
- leke 2y ago
  Me too
- sirobg 2y ago
  Does this video help? https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 After pasting the text in you HN account, the HN API takes a little while to update. In order not to abuse it, I added a timer. If it happens even after waiting for a bit, please don't hesitate to share more informations here or at https://meet.hn/feedback https://meet.hn/feedback
- Cieric 2y ago
  I was getting the same issues due to the capitalization of my name. Just as a note to make sure yours is correct as well.
seanvelasco 2y ago
didn't know there was an .hn tld, very cool! as a socially anxious person, i just found out there's only 2 of us in my country, and i'm the other one
- Ylpertnodi 2y ago
  As a socially anxious person you may want to be asking about the 9876543 people that didn't declare themselves, and what are they hiiding from you.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Believe it or not but I'm also a (medically) anxious person! Hopefully on the path of getting better. Meeting people one by one or in small groups (for example at the gym) has helped a lot for me.
barrenko 2y ago
Pretty cool, missed out on a fun lawsuit by not naming it meta.hn.
_waqas_ali_ 2y ago
Unable to add Hong Kong. Keeps erroring out with city not found
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for this, I will investigate. In the meantime, I managed to add myself to: https://meet.hn/city/cn-Yuen-Long-District https://meet.hn/city/cn-Yuen-Long-District using "HK, China" Thanks for reporting!
- 4pkjai 2y ago
  Hey I know you!
welder 2y ago
Let me set a karma that other users must meet before seeing my username.
- throwanem 2y ago
  Or an account age. Or both.
- deisteve 2y ago
  this is exactly why i dont want to meet hn'ers
  - welder 2y ago
    My feature req sounds demanding? Or you don't like me hiding my username?
- atmanactive 2y ago
  I agree with this. We got to have a means of verifying that the other party is indeed a real HN member. Having it open like this is too spam/abuse/harvest prone, in my opinion.
pplonski86 2y ago
the first thought was, there are no other hackers in my city ... let's wait and we will see :)
- sirobg 2y ago
  It's true that you are a bit alone in your town: https://meet.hn/city/52.9908208,22.883005/%C5%81apy https://meet.hn/city/52.9908208,22.883005/%C5%81apy But you are not that far from Warsaw, with 9 people! https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw
iamwpj 2y ago
This is nice, I zoomed in to where I lived and added my location. I then went to see who the nearest other HN profiles and see what they're into. Looks like their hobby is developing meet.hn! Nice work neighbor :D!
- sirobg 2y ago
  Oups, sorry for this but I was probably teleporting myself here and there to do some testing! I'm actually in Toulouse, France these days.
wooque 2y ago
I would suggest to add website option for socials
- samsolomon 2y ago
  Came here to leave this comment! I'm not super active on social networks these days, but I do still blog.
rasengan 2y ago
Cool interface! Only thing I worry is that this will make it easier for data scientists to determine from where people are commenting from, on HN.
ytrytr 2y ago
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self_awareness 2y ago
There is a bug where Polish cities with "ł" are returning error 404, causing the website to reload (i.e. Wrocław). Why the majority of webapps completely ignore error handling?
sgu999 2y ago
Cool! Sadly there is no drop down for the city name (at least on iOS), so I can't register my town. There is two Saint-Denis in France, my one isn't the usual one ;)
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thank you! And sorry for that! I see that you are registered in Saint Leu now, but if you want you can choose Saint Denis now.
zschuessler 2y ago
This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality. I saw others already mentioned uniqueness of city names. In the US there is no guarantee a state, zip code, or even county won't have a duplicate city name. To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location. Good stuff - cheers!
- sirobg 2y ago
  > This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality. Thank you very much! > To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location. I ended up doing this! Migrated all user and city data over to this new paradigm.
kuschkufan 2y ago
Have you seen https://loginwithhn.com/ https://loginwithhn.com/ ? Seems to also fall into the category of services on top of HN, like this one and at.hn.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Yes I knew about it!
rglullis 2y ago
Can you add Mastodon (or any other activitypub-based) field? To check the identity, you just need to run a webfinger query.
breck 2y ago
2 HN users in Honolulu! Aloha! I love this! Everything worked great for me. Thanks for making it.
- sirobg 2y ago
  That's awesome! And there are four of you now! https://meet.hn/city/21.304547,-157.855676/Honolulu https://meet.hn/city/21.304547,-157.855676/Honolulu
VoltCraft 2y ago
trying to move to mcmurdo station broke it! so I moved to hawaii undefined-McMurdo-Station probably best to just allow us to enter GPS coordinates
- longlonglonglon 2y ago
  This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website. It means you can place any other user wherever you want as long as they have a link in their profile (moved you to Taiwan as a test). It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now.
  - sirobg 2y ago
    > This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website Yes I got this fixed a few hours after the release. > It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now. This was a caching problem. I'm not completely satisfied of how it works now, but hopefully this kind of thing should be fixed.
- sirobg 2y ago
  You can now move to McMurdo Station if you want. Or anywhere else supported by openstreetmap!
longlonglonglon 2y ago
I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data).
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thanks for reporting all this! > I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. This was because there was no country code associated to it. > Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). I actually did more than removing it, I now make any "city" without a country code, an invalid one. It's a hotfix, I'll have to think about it more tbh. > Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data). Yeah, actually I'm dumb I reintroduced a "vulnerability" by not checking if the city in the form was the same as the city in the HN user profile. So you could move people around, basically. But their actual data was unchanged of course, as it's stored here on HN. That's why I was able to revert this. About the ASCII characters, yes it's a problem. I'll implement it as soon as possible, when things will calm down a bit. Can you tell me more about the 405 though? It seems strange.
  - longlonglonglon 2y ago
    The 405 seems to happen randomly. No idea what causes it, sometimes it returns 200, but after a few several POSTs in a row it may return 405.
  - c6p 2y ago
    I tried to click on the locations in Turkey to list the users. But it redirects to homepage if it contains non-ASCII characters such as Tekirdağ, Ataşehir. Awaiting for a fix, currently unusable for my case.
noeltock 2y ago
Greetings from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
qazxcvbnm 2y ago
Trying to add myself fails, showing "Oops! Something uncool is breaking this app.". The POST request seems to be receiving 500 with the following request. -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_username" qazxcvbnm -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_location" Hong Kong Island, China -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0" ["$undefined","$K1"] -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590--
- robjan 2y ago
  I can get it to work by using a district name e.g "Wan Chai, China". There should probably be some special handling for Hong Kong and Macau since although they are in China, they have their own ISO country codes, flags and are divided differently.
  - qazxcvbnm 2y ago
    Hey! I think I saw your profile on the meet.hn for a while, but as of now, it seems that even your profile has disappeared. I tried submitting again with your advice, and the submit seemed to not give any errors yet I don't see myself on the map either.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Hey, did it work for you in the end? You can send me a message through meet.hn/feedback. Add some way to contact you back if you want me to answer!
dr_kiszonka 2y ago
Well done! I have one suggestion. Given how geographically sparse HN users are, you could consider listing nearby users too. For example: 2 hackers in Ankh-Morpork: - Lord Vetinari - Igor 3 hackers within 10 mi (16 km): - Susan (Sto Helit) - Princess Keli (Sto Lat) - Lord Rodley (Quirm) (It can be a bit tricky, though.)
- rkagerer 2y ago
  Those guys are just scroll urchins. Those in the know will tell you the real clackers are Winton, Carlton and Emery of the Smoking Gnu.
pcj-github 2y ago
I like this. I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.
- FractalHQ 2y ago
  Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.
  - pcj-github 2y ago
    Noted, appreciate your opinion. The OP says in the signup that if you meet up in person and tweet a photo, he'll re-tweet you through the meet.hn x handle. Sounds benign, and it mostly is. I'm just personally uncomfortable supporting an otherwise good cause wherein x.com gets more attention and data about the good folks on HN, because I really don't trust them and their data governance.
    - j_maffe 2y ago
      At some point you need to be pragmatic about minuscule concessions for a net positive action. Otherwise you would be unable to do anything at all.
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  - WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
    Similar to the parent, I associate x urls with an increasingly unwelcome retail district. I don't think it's petty, goofy or unproductive to feel uneasy in a once-open place that put up walls, gates and signal-heavy signage. But even before our present-day Compoundia, Twitter was losing it's way. Prioritizing engagement over users is a bad road.
wepple 2y ago
So, what do you do once you’re on the map and so are other people?
CaptainOfCoit 2y ago
Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :) I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet.hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them. How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)
- Towaway69 2y ago
  For those with github, I guess one could create a pull request ;) /s
- JonChesterfield 2y ago
  The line to walk is to make oneself easily contactable by an engineer yet infeasibly difficult for recruiter spam.
Fileformat 2y ago
Feature suggestion: a "my location" button on the map, so you can zoom in to your current location. There is a browser API [1] for this (which asks permission, or you can do it based on the IP address [2] [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation... [2] <shameless self-promotion> Geolocation provider comparison: https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html </shame>
subzero06 2y ago
This is great, it couldn't find my actual city, so i used the closest one that was available lol.
- sirobg 2y ago
  You should be able to find your city now! If not, don't hesitate to share some details with me through meet.hn/feedback. Make sure to add some contact info so that I can answer.
ikari_pl 2y ago
I tried to add myself at Kraków, Poland. It said no such city. I tried also Krakow and Cracow spelling. Then when it accepted Kraków again (seemingly), and I posted, I ended up in... Murowana Goślina.
- sirobg 2y ago
  https://meet.hn/city/50.0619474,19.9368564/Krakow https://meet.hn/city/50.0619474,19.9368564/Krakow Is it the Kraków you were looking for? Does it work for you now? If not, don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.
fernandotakai 2y ago
not working properly with firefox (131.0b3, raises a javascript + CORS error) -- https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png works properly on chrome.
ykonstant 2y ago
Well, I signed up; hopefully someone from/visiting Thessaloniki will chime in so we can chat about common interests.
blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
How about a way to do this without sharing your username? I feel like many people want to keep their online profiles private.
- nprateem 2y ago
  Yeah it'd be good to be able to create a separate user name. I like the anonymity of HN
Maro 2y ago
Done. I'm in Dubai.
shahzaibmushtaq 2y ago
Cool idea! Location must be pre-defined (country, state/province, city) and should not be entered by aspiring HN community members. I don't want to read the whole code to understand why the generated text is pasted in the HN description, or is it just a marketing tactic?
4pkjai 2y ago
Doesn't seem to work for Hong Kong
- sirobg 2y ago
  Should work now! Some people also found "Hong Kong Island" worked, at the time: https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island But now you can registered in Hong Kong state if you prefer. Sorry for this!
drzzhan 2y ago
Great tool! But the City, Country box is a bit unintuitive. I am not sure how to fill my place in. I live in the US so it is "city, state, country"
- sirobg 2y ago
  Thanks! Yeah I agree. It was a MVP so I wanted to keep things simple, but of course it came with drawbacks. Yesterday I shipped a search box, hopefully it'll be easier now.
CM30 2y ago
Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quite a few people here will want to discuss their side projects and startups first, not start off with a random block of tags.
- GTP 2y ago
  I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.
  - sirobg 2y ago
    Sorry for that, should be fixed now!
  - CM30 2y ago
    Hmm perhaps it fails with two or more lines at the start of the user bio? I had an extra paragraph or two of text before. But maybe it's only looking for a certain number of lines and cutting off anything after that, hence why the interests don't show up for you and the tool fails for anyone with a lot of text before the block.
- sirobg 2y ago
  > 36 Hacker News users in North Korea Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now! > due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.
  - Aachen 2y ago
    When I now click on Pyongyang, it just reloads the page and doesn't show the 1 hacker that the mouseover said would be there. URL remains meet.hn without path. Other cities work fine (Firefox) Edit: Same issue for <s style="direction:35deg;">L</s>ódź in Poland. The URL does actually change briefly but then the page reloads and redirects back to the homepage. And this made me notice the Krákow person hasn't made it onto the page still :(
rogerdickey 2y ago
Great idea! Interest-based communities have a lot more trust so things like meeting up, transacting, or dating can happen with less friction.
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jdmg94 2y ago
The website looks nice, the domain is rather unusual, which registrar did you get it from? I used punto.hn but their business model was very weird and required me to eat a $15 wire fee every year on top of the cost of the domain, I dropped them after the first year.
- sirobg 2y ago
  I struggled a bit and found https://njal.la/ https://njal.la/ Everything has been smooth so far
some_furry 2y ago
How bold of people to openly share their geolocations when doxing and swatting are routine happenings. Happy for y'all.
- internetter 2y ago
  Hundreds of millions of people have posted some geographical information about themselves on the internet without being swatted. This is like saying that people who ride public transportation are bold because murders happen there
TacticalCoder 2y ago
Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city). Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.
- dmichulke 2y ago
  Count me in. I'd suggest an afterwork in the city. But please consider adding a way to contact you to your "about" section.
  - TacticalCoder 2y ago
    OK will do. I'll email you one of these days and we'll go for an afterwork Place d'Armes or Place Guillaume II or at the Kirschberg or something like that!
dang 2y ago
I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes. If people start having real meetups maybe we can sponsor a semi-official thread about them or something.
- elashri 2y ago
  The problem will be that once this goes from the front page (on a weekend) then the chances that people will remember the site are low. Nevertheless there will be users who will not see the submission and would be otherwise interested into trying that. I think the voice chat with HN that was submitted last year (was it last year?) showed us that mostly after a day or two you couldn't find any activity. I don't know how to solve that unless you actually have your idea of having "meet" on HN itself.
  - robbomacrae 2y ago
    Or turn it into something wider than HN.. a button that can be added to any page on the internet that becomes easier to recall "hey I wonder who else likes or wants to discuss this article on meet.x?
  - zh3 2y ago
    If enough people add the tag to their 'about' page, that could help keep it going.
  - generalizations 2y ago
    Could even add a 'meet' entry to the tagline above each comment, if they use this. Presumably only visible to other people who set this up. Could be a good way to remind people it exists.
- PromptCoding 2y ago
  might be cool to have HN demo days run in different cities regularly
zby 2y ago
I am trying to register from Warsaw, Poland - but I always get a 'City not found' error - I've tried Warszawa, Polska and Warszawa, Poland too. It reports the error already at the first letter and never changes. I am using Firefox and I get lots of Javascript errors. I am curious how the three users that are visible on the map registered. *Update:* the Openstreetmap call that is used seems to be correct: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=Warsaw&country=%20Polan&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=Warsaw&count... - this leads to the right data - so I guess the page is updated after I fill up the correct name, but some Javascript error blows up the process. This is the primary candidate: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: x is undefined NextJS 17 h cache validationFunction p t setTimeout handler*8245/Q/< a_ aR sF sF sM sU o4 iV sU uR uM page-55b4fe444b2a460b.js:1:1221 p NextJS AsyncFunctionThrow self-hosted:811 NextJS 13 *Update:* It also failed in Chrome. With the following error in web console: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') at page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:1223 at async validationFunction (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:56767) at async p (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:47487)
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry it happened! Glad to see it worked for you in the end and that you are several people registered in Warsaw! https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw
zelphirkalt 2y ago
Hm. After waiting several minutes, it does not seem to pick up the info from my profile. "No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update." Also might be good to add Mastodon to the list of available social networks.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Hey, sorry it happened... can you tell me more about that? Don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.
hooverd 2y ago
This doesn't like the city of Saint Louis.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for this, it should work now!
AstroJetson 2y ago
It could use some work for the USA. I'm in the better Wilmington, the one in Delaware. But it doesn't seem to want to let me use Delaware vs North Carolina. So needs City/State/Country for the US.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Hey, sorry for this. Yesterday I shipped a search which should have fixed this. Actually I tested this and it finds Wilmington from Delaware now. If it's not the case for you, send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.
koito17 2y ago
There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere
- n_plus_1_acc 2y ago
  something something falsehoods about addresses
- Aeolun 2y ago
  I don’t know how you romanize that, but I’ve never written or said funabashi as anything but funabashi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization It’s no surprise to me a romanization method aimed at english speakers is used for romanizing an internet input field.
- takumif 2y ago
  Is kunrei-shiki romanization ("Funabasi") actually considered official? I see Hepburn romanization ("Funabashi") pretty much everywhere (including the official city website [1] in this case). Plus, it's better aligned with how it's actually pronounced. [1] https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p042738.html https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p0427...
- codeconscious 2y ago
  Hmm, good observation. I guess the site supports Hepburn-romanized names. I believe adding support Kunrei-shiki and maybe Nihon-shiki names too would resolve this issue pretty well. Given that it's an English site, I'm unsure of the value of supporting the original Japanese names too, but of course it would be neat if it did. (More info about Japanese romanization for any interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Modern_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Moder...)
- sirobg 2y ago
Vox_Leone 2y ago
Solitaire is only game in town. Greetings everybody.
cssanchez 2y ago
Just to leave my data point, I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list. That said, PR is so small that I don't care about searching by city, searching for users in the island is enough for a meetup. For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.
- sirobg 2y ago
  > I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list Someone is registered there now! https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan > For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city. You can now if you want to. But the UI isn't really made for this. You might end up with a "M" marker in the middle of nowhere in your country.
osbre 2y ago
There are multiple cities/towns with the same name in my country, but unfortunately, it's impossible to specify which one is mine at meet.hn. What a shame.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for this! You should be able to, now
maxwelljoslyn 2y ago
I've made more than one friend on Hacker News, one of whom I've met in person. Encouraging that to happen, by way of an app, is a great idea. Every project has bugs at first, but I see you're dealing with them as they pop up. Best of luck working on it.
vjulian 2y ago
Is it limited to hackers, or is it open to all tech-savvy, free-thinking types of HN readers? If need be, I could dust off some mad 6502 assembly language skillz. Oh, and I ran a BBS briefly in the 80s if that helps me qualify. I’m not technically knowledgeable on current technologies, but I think I’m sufficiently opinionated.
- thelittleone 2y ago
  I ran a BBS also and likely at least as opinionated. Brother.
nelup20 2y ago
Love the idea! I've wanted to meet fellow HNers to nerd out with for a while :D Congrats on shipping and good luck
tlewitt 2y ago
I have been reading HN for 4+ years through university and moving to SF for a job in tech and derive a huge amount of utility from it. However this is the first post that has made me want to join and interact as more than a “lurker”. Looks awesome and I hope to meet some awesome hackers around me!
- sirobg 2y ago
  So cool to read! It seems you guys are two over there now: https://meet.hn/city/36.9743626,-122.0294673/Santa-Cruz https://meet.hn/city/36.9743626,-122.0294673/Santa-Cruz
xyst 2y ago
Remind me of indiehacker meetups
matheusmoreira 2y ago
Added myself to the map. At first it said it couldn't find my city but the issue seems to have resolved itself after a while, maybe after I zoomed in. Can your website handle accents? Trying to look up my neighbors in São Paulo and Goiânia redirects me back to the root page. https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia My guess is your website is choking on the accented characters. â U+00E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX ã U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
- sirobg 2y ago
  This should be fixed now. Sorry it happened and thanks for reporting!
m-a-t-t-i 2y ago
Would be great if the tags field allowed freeform input instead of choosing from a set of existing tags. My preferred tags would have been Design, Fashion, Digital fabrication, Computational Creativity etc. but none were available.
- sirobg 2y ago
  I was (and still am) worried to let people use anything as input on the internet. Any advice as to how to handle that?
Aeolun 2y ago
I think the list of hackers should show everyone in any of the icons that are currently visible.
JonChesterfield 2y ago
What's the grammar this is using for parsing the field? The generated text gives vague hints but it's irritating to guess at what the constraints are, especially given update lag.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for this. The MVP was just a simple string that I split over commas. Since then I shipped a search box. Hopefully it works for you! If not, don't hesitate to send a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.
nprateem 2y ago
It's really annoying how it changes the map zoom/centre when you click on a pin.
mproud 2y ago
Could you add Discord to the socials? The format for a Discord user URL is like this: `discordapp.com/users/<User_ID>` where `<User_ID>` is an integer. (People can copy the user ID when signed into Discord.)
- redmajor12 2y ago
  Please don't. Discord is contrary to everything HN stands for as a community.
  - mproud 2y ago
    You could say the same thing for X, Facebook, Reddit, or YouTube. They all have flaws and controversies. Why not let each person decide which socials they want to participate in and share?
dylanzhangdev 2y ago
Thank you very much, I saw a user from Guangzhou, China, which is only a few hundred kilometers away from me.
nikolayasdf123 2y ago
Hong Kong is not recognised :/
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- sirobg 2y ago
  Should work now! Some people also found "Hong Kong Island" worked, at the time: https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island But now you can registered in Hong Kong state if you prefer. Sorry for this!
nikolayasdf123 2y ago
given so many problems with city names. maybe just avoid them entirely? use lat/lon and closest clusters on them map. people will figure out themselves which city that is
- sirobg 2y ago
  That's sort of what I ended up doing! Now there is a search box to find the location you want (not just cities) and then I create URLs like this one: https://meet.hn/city/48.8588897,2.3200410217200766/Paris https://meet.hn/city/48.8588897,2.3200410217200766/Paris
wslh 2y ago
It could be also great to add a karma ranking per city.
eperssona 2y ago
It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?
- riffraff 2y ago
  Any mastodon server, any WordPress/Tumblr, GitHub pages, HN profiles..? I'm not sure Twitter/X is an identity as much as it is a "place where I looked for this person first" or "place which I know this person uses".
- dualogy 2y ago
  I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =) In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)
  - dieselgate 2y ago
    I prefer when personal websites are used but agree
  - detourdog 2y ago
    I don’t know if an actual identity system is needed. I would think just have a location and an email is north to work out the details. I don’t like to prove who I am to most people on the internet. I do like to meet and talk but exactly who anybody is I prefer to take them at they com.
- prdpx7 2y ago
  here you go https://xcancel.com/ https://xcancel.com/
  - bruh2 2y ago
    Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.
greentext 2y ago
Did you get permission from HN to do this? There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.
- interestica 2y ago
  Who is HN? What makes something official? Should HN run it? HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.
fortran77 2y ago
I split my time and live in two cities in two countries. I put both in my "about", but I don't know if your map will handle this.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Oh that's an interesting use case. You are the first one! Unfortunately for now it's not supported, but I'm adding this to the feedback list, thanks!
GregOz 2y ago
Brilliant idea! I get No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update when trying to add to map. But my HN accounts has about section...
- GregOz 2y ago
  It was capitalization of my HN handle. Needs to match exactly.
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BrandoElFollito 2y ago
This is a very nice project, to start with. Thank you very much for that! I checked Paris and most of the people I see are either CEOs or VC (or something around that). I was expecting this demographics in the US, probably less in France. I am a pure nerd, interested in technology applied to everyday items (think Home Assistant, some amateur 3D printing) but also history and all these discussions about random topics that many perceive as a waste of time. OP: would you consider adding interests (say, the top 5) to help with matchmaking? EDIT: woah, I just realized it is there!! Thanks!!
dmichulke 2y ago
Great project. Bug report: Clicking on the items in Southern and Brazil: - Rio de Janeiro, Joinville and Curitiba works - but Jaraguá do Sul and Florianópolis don't Looks like it's the accents..
mylh 2y ago
Great idea, I've added telegram group for hackers in Valencia if anyone wants to meet :)
msephton 2y ago
Added, thanks for creating this.
laurex 2y ago
Just a thought. The problem in most cases isn't finding people with whom to meet, it's actually how we meet. We've lost a lot of capacity to develop relationships that go beyond common interests and basic in-person politeness.
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soulchild37 2y ago
tried to input "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" and it says it is not valid unfortunately. Can this be fixed?
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for this, glad to see it worked for you in the end! https://meet.hn/city/3.0991919,101.7374229/Kuala-Lumpur https://meet.hn/city/3.0991919,101.7374229/Kuala-Lumpur
scooke 2y ago
Very nice. Please add an AP option like a Mastodon account, Pixelfed, etc. No way am I using x anymore.
throwaway2016a 2y ago
I like that idea but I purposely stay anonymous on HN and I would be DOXing myself if I used this. It'd be great to be able to either use it without a username (ideally) or have the choice to keep your HN username private.
redlac 2y ago
I added myself, I hope it catches on!
- sirobg 2y ago
  Five of you there! Awesome! https://meet.hn/city/51.0456064,-114.057541/Calgary https://meet.hn/city/51.0456064,-114.057541/Calgary
nkg 2y ago
Thank you for letting me be the 1st hacker on my island ;) https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg
- sirobg 2y ago
  Awesome! Very nice flex too!
arendtio 2y ago
I have not checked all cities, but Berlin seems to be a strong contender for HN's capital. Do any cities have more hackers?
- lippihom 2y ago
  Would love to maybe do a group meet-up?
AI_hacker 2y ago
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skeltoac 2y ago

- Great idea, thanks for sharing! - country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states - what harsh reputation? :)

sirobg 2y ago
- Thank you very much! - Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already. Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data. This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&country=${rawCountry}&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion, please do share it! - Every time I speak with people about HN, I get something along the line: "They criticize everything, and very easily".
- djbusby 2y ago
  > They criticize everything, and very easily I think that is a feature, not a bug.
  - atmanactive 2y ago
    Absolutely a feature.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    It's also confusion that reporting of a bug is not criticism. It's a Show HN. You've asked for the feedback. People that get twisted when the feedback is anything other than pablum like "great job" need not be a developer. If you can't handle being told that something isn't working, then how do you ever expect to improve? Or maybe you've moved from being a dev and are now trying to be a founder?
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  - sirobg 2y ago
    I 100% agree
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mynameyeff 2y ago

Very cool!

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you very much!

hk__2 2y ago

Congratulations on this! One remark: it seems you forgot to make the repo public; I get a 404 on https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn.

sirobg 2y ago
Thanks! And you were right, sorry! It is fixed: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn

Aachen 2y ago

> No meet.hn data found for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update. My account exists since 2020, why would the HN API (which, if you click the link at the bottom of every page, says "near real time") not know my account? I'm curious how this error occurs For anyone else having this, the "add me" button will enable itself again, but it does take a while. Not that retrying seems to work for me Edit: nvm I'm being stupid, I did not see the "copy and paste the text below into your HN account" instruction. Thanks also to those who replied with that info, though while playing with the browser dev tools to figure out what the issue might be, I spotted that text eventually

lifty 2y ago
You have to add the link to your bio. It’s a way for the app to verify that you want to be added to the map
gdcbe 2y ago
For me it only worked after I added their form text to my hn account description on my actual hn account page…

joe8756438 2y ago

Nice work! I live in a rural area, would be great to know the local HNers!

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you! Yes I created this because I had that exact wish

delta_p_delta_x 2y ago

> City not found. Make sure you use the format: City, Country (Paris, France) It might be good to rework this—cities only, and provide a drop-down box for users to select. Having city, country is a bit superfluous for people who live in city-states.

rafram 2y ago
You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
- delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
  I meant a text box that users could type in, and a drop-down that returned filtered results from the input.
- salomonk_mur 2y ago
  Yes, that is the standard UI for this problem. You select a country, then that loads a the country's divisions ilfor another select box, and that load the cities for that division. Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.
  - rafram 2y ago
    I see that UI on some European sites. It’s basically nonfunctional for the US, at least. (Especially the latter approach with no “division” narrowing.) There are hundreds of towns with duplicate names, people might want to use region names that don’t exist politically (“Bay Area”), and people can be in incorporated towns (San Francisco) or unincorporated areas that get assigned Census Bureau names based on usage (Bay Point). There is just no way to create an autocomplete list that encompasses every valid place, and it’s a waste of time to try.
sebastiennight 2y ago
I'm afraid there are... 1,700+ cities[0] in the world called "San José" That's quite a bit of scrolling you'd be forcing those people to do. [0]: https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-most-common-city-name/ https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-most-comm...

noninc 2y ago

Good idea! I wish you also added Mastodon to the socials.

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you very much! Will add

dewey 2y ago

Looks cool! I've used the search or meetup.com before for this use case when I'm traveling, but meetup.com is slowly going away it seems. Feature Requests: - Mastodon support in the social dropdown - Auto complete on the location selector

sirobg 2y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedbacks! - will add! - will add as well! I wanted something simple to launch quick and see if the project was of interest. It seems it is, so I will implement it!
- dkekenflxlf 2y ago
  Check GeoNames.org for this task
tetris11 2y ago
+1 for mastodon also orcid or google scholar
- sirobg 2y ago
  Didn't know about orcid! And good idea for google scholar, thanks for sharing!

amadeuspagel 2y ago

Great idea. I think it would be cool if you couldn't just add socials but a personal webpage and email (with mailto link).

sirobg 2y ago
Good idea, thanks! I was scared to allow any URL, to be honest. That's why I restricted this to a set of allowed domains. But as it's open source maybe I'll have the chance to get it pair reviewed before shipping it if this gets traction.
- amadeuspagel 2y ago
  Two more things on the socials: - Most socials use square icons, but Cal.com uses the logo, so it breaks the layout. - I think it's worth adding YouTube, not just YouTube Music.

KingOfCoders 2y ago

Not working for me. Tried ~10 times.

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry this happened. Could you share what you tried? Maybe this video can help? https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 If you prefer not to share publicly, you can also share your feedback here: https://meet.hn/feedback https://meet.hn/feedback
- KingOfCoders 2y ago
  Not on X sorry. Nothing happend. The error message is not helpful at all (can it connect? Does it find the user? Does it find the data in the about section? What URL was it trying? etc.) but said it wanted to wait a minute for the API. User since 2020 (with this account) [Edit] Tried again it now says "No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update." [Edit2] Works now, the other reply about the space made me think. I didn't use identical Uppercase/Lowercase. Hmm.
nhatcher 2y ago
Make sure your handle doesn't have a space at the end. That was my problem

phoe-krk 2y ago

When I type in "Kraków, Poland", I get meet.hn/city/pl-undefined. Does your code handle diacritics correctly?

BuckYeah 2y ago
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sirobg 2y ago
Well, congrats on finding the second bug! Thanks! This one is pretty big, even as big as it's funny. > Does your code handle diacritics correctly? It seems it doesn't, no. Sorry for this. It's my first attempt at an international product. To give you more details, I'm using this query to fetch cities data: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&country=${rawCountry}&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I probably shouldn't have restricted accept-language to en-US. I'll investigate and make this work.
- phoe-krk 2y ago
  No problem. As a Polish person, it is my duty to find zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs in other people's code.
  - coolThingsFirst 2y ago
    You are the mvp
  - sirobg 2y ago
    > zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs If this does mean something it's even more hilarious!
    - klyrs 2y ago
      https://hrrsd.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/polish-diacritics/ https://hrrsd.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/polish-diacritics/

monkin 2y ago

Nice! You could add a feature to organize and host a meeting or contact people in some way. :-)

Aachen 2y ago
Perhaps it could show a reminder to have an email address in one's profile? That's recommended in general anyway
- monkin 2y ago
  It would be more useful to have a button in each city to propose a meeting—no need to email anyone. You suggest a meeting, people can join or propose changes. That's it. :<
  - Aachen 2y ago
    So everyone who signed up would need to check this site, is the idea?
sirobg 2y ago
Thank you! Yes I would love to. I'll have to think of the best way to add this. If you have any suggestion please do share it!

VoltCraft 2y ago

Cool! will you add social link for youtube? https://www.youtube.com/@VCmakes https://www.youtube.com/@VCmakes

sirobg 2y ago
Thanks! Will do!

sickcodebruh 2y ago

This is neat. I added myself. I'm hitting a bug where clicking New York just refreshes the page instead of loading the city's page. Los Angeles, San José, and... most cities seem to exhibit it. Chicago seems to work? Picking a city was tough. It insisted on the more general New York instead of the more specific Long Island City.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

This is a great idea, and I sincerely want it to work out. For myself, I'll probably not use it, but that's because I'm an "old," and I stopped attending local meetups, because I was always surrounded by a circle of avoidance, where no one would look at me, or have anything to do with me. Got a bit tiresome, but it's the way of the world, I guess. For non-olds, these meetups are great, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm.

asimpleusecase 2y ago
Need a “wise old dudes” meet up and charge those under 40 to attend- few 20 to 30 year olds understand how much of value they could get from an “old dude” for the price of a beer/coffee.
- gtirloni 2y ago
  As I get older, the "old wise dude" myth fades more every day. I rarely meet wise old people, it's quite the opposite actually. Not saying there aren't any, buy I would avoid conflating old and wise together.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
    Absolutely. However, it seems that most folks conflate "older" (which is getting increasingly younger -I encounter folks in their early forties that can't get interviews), and "useless." Funny. We're doing pretty well at opening up the industry to folks from many ethnic backgrounds, and women, but the industry actively encourages ageism. Most of the "reasons" end up falling flat, upon closer inspection. It just seems that gray hair makes people uncomfortable. I guess it always has, but in the Days of Yore, corporations were usually run by older folks, so we had to work with them (I didn't always have gray hair, myself -spoiler: We all get a turn at this wheel).
    - gtirloni 2y ago
      Indeed, ageism is a serious issue. And it seems out of touch with an ageing society in most countries. I'm not young anymore either and my experience job hunting has been that I get invited to fewer initial interviews, but when I am, the whole process is much much easier for myself than a decade ago. Onboarding is also much faster.

spencerchubb 2y ago

There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.

guitarsteve 2y ago
Same
sirobg 2y ago
I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
- lolinder 2y ago
  It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. Most of them are small, but 5 of them (Massachusetts, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Ohio) have more the 20k residents. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield
  - rootusrootus 2y ago
    > It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict The irony is that a lot of our city names came from Europe.
  - chgs 2y ago
    Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales. I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight. Reused names isn’t just an American thing.

jppittma 2y ago

mark my words, this will be worse than the reddit meetups.

johndunne 2y ago
I think it depends on how you use HN. I try to contribute positively in the comments and enjoy the learning aspect of the HN community. Shit posters might not want to join the train.
RobRivera 2y ago
I tried a reddit meetup once. Once
lifesaver_mint 2y ago
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mynameyeff 2y ago

you should probably use some kind of API to help people input their city/country.

sirobg 2y ago
I do, I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap. I used a simple API call for the sake of simplicity, but now that the product is out, I'll probably switch to something more robust.
- mynameyeff 2y ago
  gotcha... maybe the API was slow... i didn't get address suggestions when inputting y city's name
  - sirobg 2y ago
    Sorry I misunderstood what you meant. Now there is a proper location search box with address suggestions and stuff.

alok-g 2y ago

Have signed up. It says there's another signup from my location, but is failing to show me. It just redirects to the home page. It is showing for another city, so perhaps due to the space in the name? Thanks. meet.hn/city/in-New Delhi

sirobg 2y ago
Should be fixed for New Delhi now: https://meet.hn/city/in-New-Delhi https://meet.hn/city/in-New-Delhi Sorry for this, and thanks for reporting!
- alok-g 2y ago
  No worries. I've updated in my profile too. Thanks.
- freedomben 2y ago
  I'm getting similar, but can see a 404 in the dev tools when trying to view the hacker in Coeur-d'Alene: https://meet.hn/city/us-Coeur-d'Alene https://meet.hn/city/us-Coeur-d'Alene I can't tell if it's being URL encoded or not, so that's a possibility. I imagine most cities don't have apostrophes in the name so it might be an edge case.

grishka 2y ago

Feature request: please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account. Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg.

sirobg 2y ago
> please add Mastodon/fediverse as a type of social media account Didn't know about fediverse! Thanks for sharing. > Also, you generate invalid URLs for cities that have spaces in them, like Saint Petersburg. Yeah I was dumb enough not to handle spaces in city names... Saint Petersburg is fixed now, and most should be as well, but not all. I implemented some kind of quick fix for now, but I will investigate further when this settles down a bit. Thanks for reporting!

lucastech 2y ago

I really like this idea. I've wanted to build something to bring startup/remote work people in my area together for a while. I bought a few domains but couldn't figure out the hook. Smart idea to build it as part of the HN userbase, since that is the userbase you want for something like this! Great work

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you very much!

josmar 2y ago

Feature request: delta.chat contact field, the best of the decentralised free software messengers Easy to have multiple identities for public and private use

dualogy 2y ago

Bug alert: while clicking on the Seoul 'M' does work, listing its (currently 1) hackers, the close-by Pyongyang doesn't (despite also having "1 hacker" registered).

DistractionRect 2y ago
Similar issue here. Clicking some of them works, and other don't (E.g. Irvine works, Los Angeles doesn't)
sirobg 2y ago
Should be working since a few days!

bschmidt1 2y ago

Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).

under-Peter 2y ago
I suspect the current situation is mostly due to timezones and as the west coast wakes up we‘ll see more cities appear there. It’ll probably take a few days until you can deduce anything about hn-users in general from that map. And thanks for the comment - made me look outside my immediate surroundings on the map!
narag 2y ago
If you're living in SF area, you have an IRL social aggregator. We in WE appreciate HN more with its warts and all.
- bschmidt1 2y ago
  "IRL social" in SF hahah
  - narag 2y ago
    Point taken :)

edverma2 2y ago

very cool! I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. I'm sure many will come.

albybisy 2y ago
people are still sleeping
sirobg 2y ago
> very cool! Thank you very much! > I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. Surprised as well! So much so that I signed up in SF myself to make sure it was working as expected

pveierland 2y ago

Looks nice! +1 for storing data in a human-readable representation on existing user profiles. No extra account needed + information has value outside meet.hn + information has value even if site goes away.

CalRobert 2y ago

Awesome! I've been hoping to find something like this. Would be great if I could add a Mastodon profile.

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you! Mastodon has been requested several times, will add!
- CalRobert 2y ago
  Great! My pin disappeared though? I changed my city, maybe that’s why
  - sirobg 2y ago
    I had some caching issues, so I think it might have been that, sorry! Probably didn't got stuck very long though (at least I hope!). https://meet.hn/city/52.2241375,5.1719396/Hilversum https://meet.hn/city/52.2241375,5.1719396/Hilversum Just check and at least I can see you now!

johndunne 2y ago

Very cool! I think many will be reticent to divulge social information on here! Looking forward to seeing this grow.

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atmanactive 2y ago

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

TekMol 2y ago
What abuse? Your HN profile is public anyhow. All this does is show who put a city in their profile. You could find those via Google as well.
- atmanactive 2y ago
  I misunderstood then. I thought this is a brand new data collector. Thank you.
  - atmanactive 2y ago
    In fact, it is a brand new data collector. It's encouraging HN account holders to geo-tag themselves and to put that information in the publicly available HN account profile. This profile is, more or less, blank by default.
donatj 2y ago
It's all data you chose to share publicly. I wouldn't have put myself on the map if I hadn't been comfortable doing so.
RadiozRadioz 2y ago
> hide the names unless visitor is logged in I hate websites that do this. People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.
- atmanactive 2y ago
  Why do you care if the screen shows 5 people in city X (which is not your city anyway)? What use do you have of knowing exact names of people in city X half way acros the globe?

johndunne 2y ago

Perhaps a notification when new signups occur in the same area? Or when people near you with shared interests.

pzo 2y ago

awesome idea. Would be great to have in maps view some adaptive clustering with number inside similar like nomadlist members map: https://nomads.com/community https://nomads.com/community Also for those that nomading and changing places often would be good to have option to share location via WebLocation but make it randomized on the backend or even better in frontend (so that it's approximate to e.g 5-10km radius)

r_singh 2y ago

I’m getting the following error: “No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update.“ https://imgur.com/a/B1u4ZXA https://imgur.com/a/B1u4ZXA

leke 2y ago
Me too
sirobg 2y ago
Does this video help? https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 After pasting the text in you HN account, the HN API takes a little while to update. In order not to abuse it, I added a timer. If it happens even after waiting for a bit, please don't hesitate to share more informations here or at https://meet.hn/feedback https://meet.hn/feedback
Cieric 2y ago
I was getting the same issues due to the capitalization of my name. Just as a note to make sure yours is correct as well.

seanvelasco 2y ago

didn't know there was an .hn tld, very cool! as a socially anxious person, i just found out there's only 2 of us in my country, and i'm the other one

Ylpertnodi 2y ago
As a socially anxious person you may want to be asking about the 9876543 people that didn't declare themselves, and what are they hiiding from you.
sirobg 2y ago
Believe it or not but I'm also a (medically) anxious person! Hopefully on the path of getting better. Meeting people one by one or in small groups (for example at the gym) has helped a lot for me.

barrenko 2y ago

Pretty cool, missed out on a fun lawsuit by not naming it meta.hn.

_waqas_ali_ 2y ago

Unable to add Hong Kong. Keeps erroring out with city not found

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry for this, I will investigate. In the meantime, I managed to add myself to: https://meet.hn/city/cn-Yuen-Long-District https://meet.hn/city/cn-Yuen-Long-District using "HK, China" Thanks for reporting!
4pkjai 2y ago
Hey I know you!

welder 2y ago

Let me set a karma that other users must meet before seeing my username.

throwanem 2y ago
Or an account age. Or both.
deisteve 2y ago
this is exactly why i dont want to meet hn'ers
- welder 2y ago
  My feature req sounds demanding? Or you don't like me hiding my username?
atmanactive 2y ago
I agree with this. We got to have a means of verifying that the other party is indeed a real HN member. Having it open like this is too spam/abuse/harvest prone, in my opinion.

pplonski86 2y ago

the first thought was, there are no other hackers in my city ... let's wait and we will see :)

sirobg 2y ago
It's true that you are a bit alone in your town: https://meet.hn/city/52.9908208,22.883005/%C5%81apy https://meet.hn/city/52.9908208,22.883005/%C5%81apy But you are not that far from Warsaw, with 9 people! https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw

iamwpj 2y ago

This is nice, I zoomed in to where I lived and added my location. I then went to see who the nearest other HN profiles and see what they're into. Looks like their hobby is developing meet.hn! Nice work neighbor :D!

sirobg 2y ago
Oups, sorry for this but I was probably teleporting myself here and there to do some testing! I'm actually in Toulouse, France these days.

wooque 2y ago

I would suggest to add website option for socials

samsolomon 2y ago
Came here to leave this comment! I'm not super active on social networks these days, but I do still blog.

rasengan 2y ago

Cool interface! Only thing I worry is that this will make it easier for data scientists to determine from where people are commenting from, on HN.

ytrytr 2y ago

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self_awareness 2y ago

There is a bug where Polish cities with "ł" are returning error 404, causing the website to reload (i.e. Wrocław). Why the majority of webapps completely ignore error handling?

sgu999 2y ago

Cool! Sadly there is no drop down for the city name (at least on iOS), so I can't register my town. There is two Saint-Denis in France, my one isn't the usual one ;)

sirobg 2y ago
Thank you! And sorry for that! I see that you are registered in Saint Leu now, but if you want you can choose Saint Denis now.

zschuessler 2y ago

This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality. I saw others already mentioned uniqueness of city names. In the US there is no guarantee a state, zip code, or even county won't have a duplicate city name. To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location. Good stuff - cheers!

sirobg 2y ago
> This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality. Thank you very much! > To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location. I ended up doing this! Migrated all user and city data over to this new paradigm.

kuschkufan 2y ago

Have you seen https://loginwithhn.com/ https://loginwithhn.com/ ? Seems to also fall into the category of services on top of HN, like this one and at.hn.

sirobg 2y ago
Yes I knew about it!

rglullis 2y ago

Can you add Mastodon (or any other activitypub-based) field? To check the identity, you just need to run a webfinger query.

breck 2y ago

2 HN users in Honolulu! Aloha! I love this! Everything worked great for me. Thanks for making it.

sirobg 2y ago
That's awesome! And there are four of you now! https://meet.hn/city/21.304547,-157.855676/Honolulu https://meet.hn/city/21.304547,-157.855676/Honolulu

VoltCraft 2y ago

trying to move to mcmurdo station broke it! so I moved to hawaii undefined-McMurdo-Station probably best to just allow us to enter GPS coordinates

longlonglonglon 2y ago
This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website. It means you can place any other user wherever you want as long as they have a link in their profile (moved you to Taiwan as a test). It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now.
- sirobg 2y ago
  > This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website Yes I got this fixed a few hours after the release. > It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now. This was a caching problem. I'm not completely satisfied of how it works now, but hopefully this kind of thing should be fixed.
sirobg 2y ago
You can now move to McMurdo Station if you want. Or anywhere else supported by openstreetmap!

longlonglonglon 2y ago

I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data).

sirobg 2y ago
Thanks for reporting all this! > I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. This was because there was no country code associated to it. > Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). I actually did more than removing it, I now make any "city" without a country code, an invalid one. It's a hotfix, I'll have to think about it more tbh. > Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data). Yeah, actually I'm dumb I reintroduced a "vulnerability" by not checking if the city in the form was the same as the city in the HN user profile. So you could move people around, basically. But their actual data was unchanged of course, as it's stored here on HN. That's why I was able to revert this. About the ASCII characters, yes it's a problem. I'll implement it as soon as possible, when things will calm down a bit. Can you tell me more about the 405 though? It seems strange.
- longlonglonglon 2y ago
  The 405 seems to happen randomly. No idea what causes it, sometimes it returns 200, but after a few several POSTs in a row it may return 405.
- c6p 2y ago
  I tried to click on the locations in Turkey to list the users. But it redirects to homepage if it contains non-ASCII characters such as Tekirdağ, Ataşehir. Awaiting for a fix, currently unusable for my case.

noeltock 2y ago

Greetings from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

qazxcvbnm 2y ago

Trying to add myself fails, showing "Oops! Something uncool is breaking this app.". The POST request seems to be receiving 500 with the following request. -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_username" qazxcvbnm -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_location" Hong Kong Island, China -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0" ["$undefined","$K1"] -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590--

robjan 2y ago
I can get it to work by using a district name e.g "Wan Chai, China". There should probably be some special handling for Hong Kong and Macau since although they are in China, they have their own ISO country codes, flags and are divided differently.
- qazxcvbnm 2y ago
  Hey! I think I saw your profile on the meet.hn for a while, but as of now, it seems that even your profile has disappeared. I tried submitting again with your advice, and the submit seemed to not give any errors yet I don't see myself on the map either.
sirobg 2y ago
Hey, did it work for you in the end? You can send me a message through meet.hn/feedback. Add some way to contact you back if you want me to answer!

dr_kiszonka 2y ago

Well done! I have one suggestion. Given how geographically sparse HN users are, you could consider listing nearby users too. For example: 2 hackers in Ankh-Morpork: - Lord Vetinari - Igor 3 hackers within 10 mi (16 km): - Susan (Sto Helit) - Princess Keli (Sto Lat) - Lord Rodley (Quirm) (It can be a bit tricky, though.)

rkagerer 2y ago
Those guys are just scroll urchins. Those in the know will tell you the real clackers are Winton, Carlton and Emery of the Smoking Gnu.

pcj-github 2y ago

I like this. I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.

FractalHQ 2y ago
Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.
- pcj-github 2y ago
  Noted, appreciate your opinion. The OP says in the signup that if you meet up in person and tweet a photo, he'll re-tweet you through the meet.hn x handle. Sounds benign, and it mostly is. I'm just personally uncomfortable supporting an otherwise good cause wherein x.com gets more attention and data about the good folks on HN, because I really don't trust them and their data governance.
  - j_maffe 2y ago
    At some point you need to be pragmatic about minuscule concessions for a net positive action. Otherwise you would be unable to do anything at all.
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- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
  Similar to the parent, I associate x urls with an increasingly unwelcome retail district. I don't think it's petty, goofy or unproductive to feel uneasy in a once-open place that put up walls, gates and signal-heavy signage. But even before our present-day Compoundia, Twitter was losing it's way. Prioritizing engagement over users is a bad road.

wepple 2y ago

So, what do you do once you’re on the map and so are other people?

CaptainOfCoit 2y ago

Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :) I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet.hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them. How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)

Towaway69 2y ago
For those with github, I guess one could create a pull request ;) /s
JonChesterfield 2y ago
The line to walk is to make oneself easily contactable by an engineer yet infeasibly difficult for recruiter spam.

Fileformat 2y ago

Feature suggestion: a "my location" button on the map, so you can zoom in to your current location. There is a browser API [1] for this (which asks permission, or you can do it based on the IP address [2] [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation... [2] <shameless self-promotion> Geolocation provider comparison: https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html </shame>

subzero06 2y ago

This is great, it couldn't find my actual city, so i used the closest one that was available lol.

sirobg 2y ago
You should be able to find your city now! If not, don't hesitate to share some details with me through meet.hn/feedback. Make sure to add some contact info so that I can answer.

ikari_pl 2y ago

I tried to add myself at Kraków, Poland. It said no such city. I tried also Krakow and Cracow spelling. Then when it accepted Kraków again (seemingly), and I posted, I ended up in... Murowana Goślina.

sirobg 2y ago
https://meet.hn/city/50.0619474,19.9368564/Krakow https://meet.hn/city/50.0619474,19.9368564/Krakow Is it the Kraków you were looking for? Does it work for you now? If not, don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

fernandotakai 2y ago

not working properly with firefox (131.0b3, raises a javascript + CORS error) -- https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png works properly on chrome.

ykonstant 2y ago

Well, I signed up; hopefully someone from/visiting Thessaloniki will chime in so we can chat about common interests.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago

How about a way to do this without sharing your username? I feel like many people want to keep their online profiles private.

nprateem 2y ago
Yeah it'd be good to be able to create a separate user name. I like the anonymity of HN

Maro 2y ago

Done. I'm in Dubai.

shahzaibmushtaq 2y ago

Cool idea! Location must be pre-defined (country, state/province, city) and should not be entered by aspiring HN community members. I don't want to read the whole code to understand why the generated text is pasted in the HN description, or is it just a marketing tactic?

4pkjai 2y ago

Doesn't seem to work for Hong Kong

sirobg 2y ago
Should work now! Some people also found "Hong Kong Island" worked, at the time: https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island But now you can registered in Hong Kong state if you prefer. Sorry for this!

drzzhan 2y ago

Great tool! But the City, Country box is a bit unintuitive. I am not sure how to fill my place in. I live in the US so it is "city, state, country"

sirobg 2y ago
Thanks! Yeah I agree. It was a MVP so I wanted to keep things simple, but of course it came with drawbacks. Yesterday I shipped a search box, hopefully it'll be easier now.

CM30 2y ago

Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quite a few people here will want to discuss their side projects and startups first, not start off with a random block of tags.

GTP 2y ago
I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.
- sirobg 2y ago
  Sorry for that, should be fixed now!
- CM30 2y ago
  Hmm perhaps it fails with two or more lines at the start of the user bio? I had an extra paragraph or two of text before. But maybe it's only looking for a certain number of lines and cutting off anything after that, hence why the interests don't show up for you and the tool fails for anyone with a lot of text before the block.
sirobg 2y ago
> 36 Hacker News users in North Korea Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now! > due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.
- Aachen 2y ago
  When I now click on Pyongyang, it just reloads the page and doesn't show the 1 hacker that the mouseover said would be there. URL remains meet.hn without path. Other cities work fine (Firefox) Edit: Same issue for <s style="direction:35deg;">L</s>ódź in Poland. The URL does actually change briefly but then the page reloads and redirects back to the homepage. And this made me notice the Krákow person hasn't made it onto the page still :(

rogerdickey 2y ago

Great idea! Interest-based communities have a lot more trust so things like meeting up, transacting, or dating can happen with less friction.

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jdmg94 2y ago

The website looks nice, the domain is rather unusual, which registrar did you get it from? I used punto.hn but their business model was very weird and required me to eat a $15 wire fee every year on top of the cost of the domain, I dropped them after the first year.

sirobg 2y ago
I struggled a bit and found https://njal.la/ https://njal.la/ Everything has been smooth so far

some_furry 2y ago

How bold of people to openly share their geolocations when doxing and swatting are routine happenings. Happy for y'all.

internetter 2y ago
Hundreds of millions of people have posted some geographical information about themselves on the internet without being swatted. This is like saying that people who ride public transportation are bold because murders happen there

TacticalCoder 2y ago

Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city). Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.

dmichulke 2y ago
Count me in. I'd suggest an afterwork in the city. But please consider adding a way to contact you to your "about" section.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago
  OK will do. I'll email you one of these days and we'll go for an afterwork Place d'Armes or Place Guillaume II or at the Kirschberg or something like that!

dang 2y ago

I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes. If people start having real meetups maybe we can sponsor a semi-official thread about them or something.

elashri 2y ago
The problem will be that once this goes from the front page (on a weekend) then the chances that people will remember the site are low. Nevertheless there will be users who will not see the submission and would be otherwise interested into trying that. I think the voice chat with HN that was submitted last year (was it last year?) showed us that mostly after a day or two you couldn't find any activity. I don't know how to solve that unless you actually have your idea of having "meet" on HN itself.
- robbomacrae 2y ago
  Or turn it into something wider than HN.. a button that can be added to any page on the internet that becomes easier to recall "hey I wonder who else likes or wants to discuss this article on meet.x?
- zh3 2y ago
  If enough people add the tag to their 'about' page, that could help keep it going.
- generalizations 2y ago
  Could even add a 'meet' entry to the tagline above each comment, if they use this. Presumably only visible to other people who set this up. Could be a good way to remind people it exists.
PromptCoding 2y ago
might be cool to have HN demo days run in different cities regularly

zby 2y ago

I am trying to register from Warsaw, Poland - but I always get a 'City not found' error - I've tried Warszawa, Polska and Warszawa, Poland too. It reports the error already at the first letter and never changes. I am using Firefox and I get lots of Javascript errors. I am curious how the three users that are visible on the map registered. *Update:* the Openstreetmap call that is used seems to be correct: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=Warsaw&country=%20Polan&format=json&place=city&limit=1&addressdetails=1&accept-language=en-US https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=Warsaw&count... - this leads to the right data - so I guess the page is updated after I fill up the correct name, but some Javascript error blows up the process. This is the primary candidate: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: x is undefined NextJS 17 h cache validationFunction p t setTimeout handler*8245/Q/< a_ aR sF sF sM sU o4 iV sU uR uM page-55b4fe444b2a460b.js:1:1221 p NextJS AsyncFunctionThrow self-hosted:811 NextJS 13 *Update:* It also failed in Chrome. With the following error in web console: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') at page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:1223 at async validationFunction (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:56767) at async p (page-9fc22f2169c430e1.js:1:47487)

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry it happened! Glad to see it worked for you in the end and that you are several people registered in Warsaw! https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw https://meet.hn/city/52.2319581,21.0067249/Warsaw

zelphirkalt 2y ago

Hm. After waiting several minutes, it does not seem to pick up the info from my profile. "No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update." Also might be good to add Mastodon to the list of available social networks.

sirobg 2y ago
Hey, sorry it happened... can you tell me more about that? Don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

hooverd 2y ago

This doesn't like the city of Saint Louis.

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry for this, it should work now!

AstroJetson 2y ago

It could use some work for the USA. I'm in the better Wilmington, the one in Delaware. But it doesn't seem to want to let me use Delaware vs North Carolina. So needs City/State/Country for the US.

sirobg 2y ago
Hey, sorry for this. Yesterday I shipped a search which should have fixed this. Actually I tested this and it finds Wilmington from Delaware now. If it's not the case for you, send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

koito17 2y ago

There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere

n_plus_1_acc 2y ago
something something falsehoods about addresses
Aeolun 2y ago
I don’t know how you romanize that, but I’ve never written or said funabashi as anything but funabashi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization It’s no surprise to me a romanization method aimed at english speakers is used for romanizing an internet input field.
takumif 2y ago
Is kunrei-shiki romanization ("Funabasi") actually considered official? I see Hepburn romanization ("Funabashi") pretty much everywhere (including the official city website [1] in this case). Plus, it's better aligned with how it's actually pronounced. [1] https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p042738.html https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p0427...
codeconscious 2y ago
Hmm, good observation. I guess the site supports Hepburn-romanized names. I believe adding support Kunrei-shiki and maybe Nihon-shiki names too would resolve this issue pretty well. Given that it's an English site, I'm unsure of the value of supporting the original Japanese names too, but of course it would be neat if it did. (More info about Japanese romanization for any interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Modern_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Moder...)
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Vox_Leone 2y ago

Solitaire is only game in town. Greetings everybody.

cssanchez 2y ago

Just to leave my data point, I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list. That said, PR is so small that I don't care about searching by city, searching for users in the island is enough for a meetup. For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.

sirobg 2y ago
> I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list Someone is registered there now! https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan > For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city. You can now if you want to. But the UI isn't really made for this. You might end up with a "M" marker in the middle of nowhere in your country.

osbre 2y ago

There are multiple cities/towns with the same name in my country, but unfortunately, it's impossible to specify which one is mine at meet.hn. What a shame.

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry for this! You should be able to, now

maxwelljoslyn 2y ago

I've made more than one friend on Hacker News, one of whom I've met in person. Encouraging that to happen, by way of an app, is a great idea. Every project has bugs at first, but I see you're dealing with them as they pop up. Best of luck working on it.

vjulian 2y ago

Is it limited to hackers, or is it open to all tech-savvy, free-thinking types of HN readers? If need be, I could dust off some mad 6502 assembly language skillz. Oh, and I ran a BBS briefly in the 80s if that helps me qualify. I’m not technically knowledgeable on current technologies, but I think I’m sufficiently opinionated.

thelittleone 2y ago
I ran a BBS also and likely at least as opinionated. Brother.

nelup20 2y ago

Love the idea! I've wanted to meet fellow HNers to nerd out with for a while :D Congrats on shipping and good luck

tlewitt 2y ago

I have been reading HN for 4+ years through university and moving to SF for a job in tech and derive a huge amount of utility from it. However this is the first post that has made me want to join and interact as more than a “lurker”. Looks awesome and I hope to meet some awesome hackers around me!

sirobg 2y ago
So cool to read! It seems you guys are two over there now: https://meet.hn/city/36.9743626,-122.0294673/Santa-Cruz https://meet.hn/city/36.9743626,-122.0294673/Santa-Cruz

xyst 2y ago

Remind me of indiehacker meetups

matheusmoreira 2y ago

Added myself to the map. At first it said it couldn't find my city but the issue seems to have resolved itself after a while, maybe after I zoomed in. Can your website handle accents? Trying to look up my neighbors in São Paulo and Goiânia redirects me back to the root page. https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia My guess is your website is choking on the accented characters. â U+00E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX ã U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE

sirobg 2y ago
This should be fixed now. Sorry it happened and thanks for reporting!

m-a-t-t-i 2y ago

Would be great if the tags field allowed freeform input instead of choosing from a set of existing tags. My preferred tags would have been Design, Fashion, Digital fabrication, Computational Creativity etc. but none were available.

sirobg 2y ago
I was (and still am) worried to let people use anything as input on the internet. Any advice as to how to handle that?

Aeolun 2y ago

I think the list of hackers should show everyone in any of the icons that are currently visible.

JonChesterfield 2y ago

What's the grammar this is using for parsing the field? The generated text gives vague hints but it's irritating to guess at what the constraints are, especially given update lag.

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry for this. The MVP was just a simple string that I split over commas. Since then I shipped a search box. Hopefully it works for you! If not, don't hesitate to send a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

nprateem 2y ago

It's really annoying how it changes the map zoom/centre when you click on a pin.

mproud 2y ago

Could you add Discord to the socials? The format for a Discord user URL is like this: `discordapp.com/users/<User_ID>` where `<User_ID>` is an integer. (People can copy the user ID when signed into Discord.)

redmajor12 2y ago
Please don't. Discord is contrary to everything HN stands for as a community.
- mproud 2y ago
  You could say the same thing for X, Facebook, Reddit, or YouTube. They all have flaws and controversies. Why not let each person decide which socials they want to participate in and share?

dylanzhangdev 2y ago

Thank you very much, I saw a user from Guangzhou, China, which is only a few hundred kilometers away from me.

nikolayasdf123 2y ago

Hong Kong is not recognised :/

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sirobg 2y ago
Should work now! Some people also found "Hong Kong Island" worked, at the time: https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island https://meet.hn/city/22.2790146,114.1724833/Hong-Kong-Island But now you can registered in Hong Kong state if you prefer. Sorry for this!

nikolayasdf123 2y ago

given so many problems with city names. maybe just avoid them entirely? use lat/lon and closest clusters on them map. people will figure out themselves which city that is

sirobg 2y ago
That's sort of what I ended up doing! Now there is a search box to find the location you want (not just cities) and then I create URLs like this one: https://meet.hn/city/48.8588897,2.3200410217200766/Paris https://meet.hn/city/48.8588897,2.3200410217200766/Paris

wslh 2y ago

It could be also great to add a karma ranking per city.

eperssona 2y ago

It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?

riffraff 2y ago
Any mastodon server, any WordPress/Tumblr, GitHub pages, HN profiles..? I'm not sure Twitter/X is an identity as much as it is a "place where I looked for this person first" or "place which I know this person uses".
dualogy 2y ago
I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =) In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)
- dieselgate 2y ago
  I prefer when personal websites are used but agree
- detourdog 2y ago
  I don’t know if an actual identity system is needed. I would think just have a location and an email is north to work out the details. I don’t like to prove who I am to most people on the internet. I do like to meet and talk but exactly who anybody is I prefer to take them at they com.
prdpx7 2y ago
here you go https://xcancel.com/ https://xcancel.com/
- bruh2 2y ago
  Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.

greentext 2y ago

Did you get permission from HN to do this? There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.

interestica 2y ago
Who is HN? What makes something official? Should HN run it? HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.

fortran77 2y ago

I split my time and live in two cities in two countries. I put both in my "about", but I don't know if your map will handle this.

sirobg 2y ago
Oh that's an interesting use case. You are the first one! Unfortunately for now it's not supported, but I'm adding this to the feedback list, thanks!

GregOz 2y ago

Brilliant idea! I get No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update when trying to add to map. But my HN accounts has about section...

GregOz 2y ago
It was capitalization of my HN handle. Needs to match exactly.

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BrandoElFollito 2y ago

This is a very nice project, to start with. Thank you very much for that! I checked Paris and most of the people I see are either CEOs or VC (or something around that). I was expecting this demographics in the US, probably less in France. I am a pure nerd, interested in technology applied to everyday items (think Home Assistant, some amateur 3D printing) but also history and all these discussions about random topics that many perceive as a waste of time. OP: would you consider adding interests (say, the top 5) to help with matchmaking? EDIT: woah, I just realized it is there!! Thanks!!

dmichulke 2y ago

Great project. Bug report: Clicking on the items in Southern and Brazil: - Rio de Janeiro, Joinville and Curitiba works - but Jaraguá do Sul and Florianópolis don't Looks like it's the accents..

mylh 2y ago

Great idea, I've added telegram group for hackers in Valencia if anyone wants to meet :)

msephton 2y ago

Added, thanks for creating this.

laurex 2y ago

Just a thought. The problem in most cases isn't finding people with whom to meet, it's actually how we meet. We've lost a lot of capacity to develop relationships that go beyond common interests and basic in-person politeness.

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soulchild37 2y ago

tried to input "Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" and it says it is not valid unfortunately. Can this be fixed?

sirobg 2y ago
Sorry for this, glad to see it worked for you in the end! https://meet.hn/city/3.0991919,101.7374229/Kuala-Lumpur https://meet.hn/city/3.0991919,101.7374229/Kuala-Lumpur

scooke 2y ago

Very nice. Please add an AP option like a Mastodon account, Pixelfed, etc. No way am I using x anymore.

throwaway2016a 2y ago

I like that idea but I purposely stay anonymous on HN and I would be DOXing myself if I used this. It'd be great to be able to either use it without a username (ideally) or have the choice to keep your HN username private.

redlac 2y ago

I added myself, I hope it catches on!

sirobg 2y ago
Five of you there! Awesome! https://meet.hn/city/51.0456064,-114.057541/Calgary https://meet.hn/city/51.0456064,-114.057541/Calgary

nkg 2y ago

Thank you for letting me be the 1st hacker on my island ;) https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg https://meet.hn/city/fr-Petit-Bourg

sirobg 2y ago
Awesome! Very nice flex too!

arendtio 2y ago

I have not checked all cities, but Berlin seems to be a strong contender for HN's capital. Do any cities have more hackers?

lippihom 2y ago
Would love to maybe do a group meet-up?

AI_hacker 2y ago

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