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A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area
- dottertrotter 19y agoRecently there have been quite a few posts on here, from people trying to find other hackers in their area to meet. Because the posts tend to get long and drawn out I created this. It's simple and just a start, but it should provide us a base for finding others in our area. If people use it, I'm thinking about adding a location based forum section.
- vlad 19y agoFirst on the list after you :) My city is wrong because the city ajax dropdown list appeared only after I had already clicked OK.
- dottertrotter 19y agosorry, bout that, I meant to add a loading notice. Just add yourself again and I'll remove the first one.
- sharpshoot 19y agoYou forgot the UK.
- danw 19y agoAnd the rest of the world
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- falsestprophet 19y agoYou forgot about Poland.
- mynameishere 19y agoNeed some wood?
- create_account 19y agoHe's referring to this: http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/ http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/
- mynameishere 19y agoWell, this: http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpolandBush18.jpg http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpo...
- create_account 19y agoI see. Now, I'm embarrassed to admit I feel like this: http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpolandBush08.html http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpo...
- oditogre 19y agoThis being a bit of a geek site, I'd thought they were actually referring to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/10/27/880411.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/10/27/880411....
- jey 19y agoFeature request: clicking on a marker causes a bubble to show up (like GMaps) instead of navigating the page away from the map.
- dottertrotter 19y agoyeah, I thought about that, but I wanted to list all the others in the state as well as the one you selected, and I thought that list could get to long for the bubble pop up.
- jey 19y agoDecouple the "look at a single user" action from the "look at all users in a region" action. Maybe add a link in the bubble that takes you to a page with all the users in the same state?
- Darmani 19y agoYou might consider asking for a zip code rather than a city. I personally live in an unincorporated area of Saint Louis county, and I was quite tempted to name one of the three surrounding suburbs (all of which are politically considered a city). While the decision to just put down "Saint Louis" came easily, I'm wondering how much internal debate I would have had had I lived in an unincorporated area in the middle of nowhere. And then, of course, there's also the reason that just typing in a zip code is easier.
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoFor the rest of the world and/or the US, just let people type in a location that works on google maps (city, country/zip code/even street address). Then geocode it with Gmaps API, and use that lat/lon to display thereafter.
- bootload 19y ago"... find other Y Combinator readers in your area ..." Didn't work for me. Does anyone below the equator get listed? ~ Melb, Aus. Is there any other way to submit your location aside from form submit? What about a set of lat/lons, or selection by clicking on the map, or a drop down for instance? There's gotta be more ways to enter than just by IP. I can understand the reasoning as it's verifiable but it should probably used to weight user entry of data.
- sri 19y agothere is no way to delete entries -- i created 3 by accident -- and also no way to delete entries when you don't want you location connected your username anymore.
- dottertrotter 19y agoI realize that it is lacking in some features, but I wasn't sure it would be used, so I only spent a few hours making it. More to come.
- dottertrotter 19y agoAnd I'll go ahead and delete the first two users you created.
- tocomment 19y agoI made two can you delete my second?
- palish 19y agodottertrotter made hackrtrackr. That's poetic. Doh! It couldn't find the location for my IP, and it only allows me to pick my state, but not my city (the textbox that should allow me to enter my city is oddly vanished).
- edu 19y agoReading from Barcelona, Spain... It does not work :(
- adnam 19y agoI'm in BCN. Think we might be the only two, or ..... :-)
- jey 19y agoFeature request: validate usernames by issuing a HTTP GET to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=%s http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=%s
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoFeature request: give us a text box that we can use to zoom into an area we type in. That is, if I just type in Pennsylvania, it will take me to that area. This will be even more needed when you start from the world view. And/or capture the click event through the GMaps API and recenter and zoom in one tick every click.
- staunch 19y agoHow about a little custom(?) microformat on our "about" sections that you fetch and refresh every X days? That solves the authentication and updating problems. That's not my idea either. It's what the Perlmonks starting doing maybe 7 years ago. <!-- location:latitude=34.05.14,longitude=-84.16.05 --> http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=BigMonkMap http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=BigMonkMap More inspiration from the Perl Mongers: http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html
- joshwa 19y agohttp://microformats.org/wiki/location-formats http://microformats.org/wiki/location-formats
- jey 19y agoGood idea. I've added it to my user page, except that I am using degrees rather than degrees.minutes.seconds. (Doesn't that make more sense?) There might be a bit of a problem though: there's no easy way to enumerate user IDs except by crawling the threads. Maybe for simplicity we should still have to add our usernames to HackrTrackr if we want to be included.
- dottertrotter 19y agoI think this combination is a great idea. Thanks guys. I'll rework some stuff to make this possible. I really appreciate all the suggestions that have been made over the past 24 hours. I thought only a few people where going to sign up and already 130 have submitted their user names. Also based upon the suggestions, I'm going to add a location based forum, as well as rework the interface to show the selected user's information in a pop up bubble, with a link to the state list instead of instantly redirecting people. Thanks, again for the suggestions and please feel free to keep them coming.
- zeantsoi 19y agocmon gotta be able to delete users. this is not considered a "feature".
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoFeature request: on the state/country view, allow announcement postings of some sort. For example, in the Philadelphia area we are starting a hackathon group (http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj), and new people putting their info in would benefit from knowing about it.
- danteembermage 19y agoOur club is a little more exclusive than I thought.
- ncouture 19y agoI'm from Montreal in Canada so it's impossible for me to be found on hackrtrackr!