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At the HN meetup in Tokyo just last week people were complaining about the lack of something like Square in Japan. I guess things will get better now. Transfor
by rtpg 13y ago
At the HN meetup in Tokyo just last week people were complaining about the lack of something like Square in Japan. I guess things will get better now.
Transforming your iPad/iPhone into a register is also pretty neat. I wonder if they'll look into putting an NFC reader in there and interface with all the IC cards here. Most people don't pay for their coffee by credit card.
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- jakerocheleau 13y agoComing from somebody who has always wanted to visit Tokyo, I can only imagine what the HN meetups are like.
- rtpg 13y agoyou can look at #hntokyo tag for some tweets about the events/pics. patio11 was there in all his glory as well.
- po 13y agoThe HN meetups in tokyo might not be as you imagine. :-) Japan is not as startup-friendly as you might suppose based on the amount of technology that comes out of the country, but things are changing here. In the past few years we've seen a lot more interest in entrepreneurship and startups, VC's, and incubators. We run a casual, low-pressure mixer kind of event about once a month. If you come to Japan, you can follow our blog (http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/ http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/) or signup on Doorkeeper to get notified of events. We get lots of visitors from abroad swinging through and we're always looking to help support other startups in Japan or small businesses trying to enter the market here. It's a really good crowd of people. There's also a meetup for HN readers in the kansai area of Japan if you're visiting there.
- radikalus 13y agoHow's the tech meetup scene in Tokyo these days? I'm there 3-4 times a year, but in previous years, I haven't really found much to crash.
- po 13y agoAs I said, it's starting to get more interesting. Sign up for our meetup newsletter and you'll get emailed about events and/or look me up when you come though.
- pwim 13y agoWe were complaining about the lack of Stripe. There have are some Japanese startups, such as Coiney (http://coiney.com/ http://coiney.com/) who are already doing the same thing as Square.
- rtpg 13y agoOh right, Stripe. I was thinking of the payment processing service, and somehow looked at this page and was able to keep cognitive dissonance that that and this POS tool was the same.