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Why isn't there a social network for hackers?
Where is the "social" network for hackers?
For Developers, engineers, inventors, innovators, visionaries, bright, intelligent, passion about technology people?
It's not FB, G+, Reddit (as much as I love you reddit), HN, GitHub, Quora (getting closer), etc.
Who wants to build it? Let's build it together.
Imagine a place where you can share ideas, follow what others are doing, encourage interest, relationships to benefit products and initiatives, build technology, share code, share the now and the future of software, hardware, networking, all while creating and inventing cool shit.
There are so many brilliant people out there who are confined to their day-to-day world, without a place to develop ideas, personal relationships and products online.
What do you guys think
- lightyrs 14y agoIt _is_ GitHub.
- jasonkester 14y agoNot really. Github represents the small fraction of developers who are into Open Source and who use Git. (and who honestly believe that they're "most developers") So while I'm sure you'll find plenty of folks here that use it, it's probably worth taking on board that it doesn't represent a significant portion of the dev community in general.
- lightyrs 14y agoEarn my reply next time.
- techwraith 14y agoYou mean like http://geeklist.com http://geeklist.com?
- dakrisht 14y agoGeeklist is a good start
- calgoo 14y agoLike email lists / irc / github ?
- dakrisht 14y agoI remember how amazing IRC used to be in the 90s - it was the goto for the Internet public. The Internet that wasn't wasting time in AOL chat rooms. Picture a closed community where you can't just join because it's cool - you have to be somewhat credible - have created something - anything, posses skills, talent, a relative position of employment, etc. certain "criteria" - to build a talents, rich community. Just like FB did it with Harvard only, then Stanford, then colleges, you get the picture.
- kybernetikos 14y agoClosed communities are not very hackerish.
- shanelja 14y agoThey are if you provide a backdoor for the none-member hackers to connect through.
- kybernetikos 14y agotrue, they'd be a little hackerish if it was a closed community of zero people with an exploit to get in...
- tsahyt 14y agoThe internet itself has been the social network for hackers ever since. As a hacker it's more like "what places to avoid" rather than where to go to.
- dakrisht 14y agoAgreed. But, there are a ton of people who want a place to share ideas and see them come to fruition - most can't do it on their own so they need help. And what could be better than a closed, tight, perhaps even paid community where users can exchange ideas, prototypes (closed, open), code, work on projects together, seek interest, advisors for two common goals really: make cool software together and make a ton of cash.
- tsahyt 14y agoThere's one thing you forgot here: They want to do that in one place. We're already doing all that here, today. We work on code using GitHub or similar services. We present our work on HN. We've got endless means of communication. And bottome line, we are a community. But, it's spread out all over the internet. I see where your question's going, which is why I wanted to clarify it a bit.
- lsiebert 14y agoOh, they have that. It's called metafilter.
- shanelja 14y agoEveryone else seems to have missed the irony here. hackerne.ws is the social network for hackers. It may not be a traditional social network, but this is a place where you can share ideas, follow what others are doing, encourage interests, form relationships to benefit products and initiatives, share code, share the now and future of software, hardware, networking, all while we create and invent cool shit. And for "build technology"... I guess that's what GitHub is for? :)
- saurik 14y agoIn fact, I would argue that Hacker News is more social than "a traditional social network": there is much more active and deep discussion that occurs here than I've ever seen on, say, Facebook.
- RollAHardSix 14y agoAnd yet, I tend to read comments without looking at usernames. I'd argue it's more anonymous then "a traditional social network". Both more social and more anonymous, oooh creepy.
- shanelja 14y agoI normally read through comments and only look at the username if it's a particularly good comment, sometimes I follow the person. Better than 700 friends I barely know.
- dakrisht 14y agoThe 700 friends who aren't really friends. So true.
- saurik 14y agoI would (and have) argued that browsing a site like this (one heavily discussion oriented) without keeping track of with whom you are speaking (enough to read their history, maybe do a Google search or two) is overly dehumanizing: the people on this site, possibly only by pseudonyms if not actually by real names, have histories and interests and are generally real people. Too often, then, people get into arguments that are really nothing more than "cultural crosstalk" (affecting everything from word/idiom choice to argument style); it also makes it more difficult to interpret things people say, as we normally smooth over common mistakes by way of the implied context of knowing who the other person is, and thereby can predict "what they meant". (By the way, totally unrelated, but I can't reply there anymore, and no one else did at the time: yes, AFAIK had you implemented Amazon's one-click system, even without knowing it existed, you would have been liable; however, you would only have been subject to "damages" and not to "treble (triple) damages", which is designed to punish people who knowingly disrespect patents.)
- jlt 14y agoStackExchange?
- mnicole 14y agoThat's pretty much exactly what http://koding.com/ http://koding.com/ is working on. They've got a good leg up.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoThe internet is a social network. HTTP is the API/protocol.
- hasenj 14y agoMaybe that's what http://coderwall.com/ http://coderwall.com/ is trying to do.