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Let's have coffee.
- Raphmedia 13y agoNice idea. The contrast of the font-color/bg-color however is really bad.
- swashboon 13y agoThe input box's for email address wasnt exactly obvious to me either, do I ommit the @? Do I just put my name in the first part and email in the second? Do I split up my email address with the prefix before the @ in the first part, and the suffix in the second box? Do i need the '.com'? Or is the first box a subject line or something? I think just putting an @ symbol between the two boxs would pretty much answer most of these questions.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI think it's more clear in it's current form than it would be with your suggested change. With the placeholders it's seems obvious to me how to use the form. It's interesting though to see that something I think is quite clear isn't clear and could be improved to someone else. Shows how important testing this kind of thing is (although maybe not in the case of a small site like this).
- Raphmedia 13y agoTo make it clearer, the issue is on small resolutions. The white text is right over the white glare to the left of the cup.
- drglitch 13y agoFor some reason, this came to mind first... :) http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hello-my-future-girlfriend http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hello-my-future-girlfriend Jokes aside, it is a much more positive experience when you meet someone one on one, outside of some meetup event networking shuffle.
- iamkoby 13y agolooks like an idea for a startup... thumbsup
- rajeshinf 13y agoGood one - can be called ice breaker oops coffee breaker
- bjpcjp 13y agoNice!
- osetinsky 13y agoTrey, love it! We're doing something similar...everyone on Treatings is open to being treated to coffee by a stranger: https://treatings.co/activity https://treatings.co/activity
- data-cat 13y agoThis is a cool idea; I would take you up on it if I wasn't in New York. I especially like your web page but have to say that the light coloring makes some of the text a little hard to read.
- johnmurch 13y agoI think it's a cool idea too - I am in NYC wanna grab coffee/beer and chat tech?
- data-cat 13y agoAfter briefly checking out your blog, yes I do. Unfortunately my availability is limited. When and where were you thinking? I am on Long Island.
- geekbri 13y agoI recently moved from Long Island to Boston. Would love to get coffee with you sometime when I am down there visiting family. I moved as the commute from LI to NYC was brutal and I felt there were better job opportunities in Boston. I'd love to pick your brain sometime about the status of the island and NYC.
- billmalarky 13y agoLooks like you got some spam on your blog *actually, it looks like you've been compromised. There are spam links all over your home page. http://www.johnmurch.com/projects/noteparse/ http://www.johnmurch.com/projects/noteparse/
- johnmurch 13y agoThanks for the heads up but not seeing them. That link is a project I worked on, not spam.
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- veganarchocap 13y agoThat's a novel idea, very brave also. There needs to be a blog post follow up to see how this went!
- eli 13y agoI like the website and if I weren't in DC I'd fill it out... But one doesn't need a fancy website to reach me. I pretty much always say yes to someone who wants to learn more about what we're working on. I bet that's true for a great many founders.
- johnmurch 13y agoI wonder if you could make a linkedin app that would not only show people in your area (city) but also show the 2nd and 3rd connections and who you should reach out to in order to get drinks with that person. Cool idea - love it!
- antsar 13y agoMake it not have anything to do with LinkedIn, and you've got an awesome idea!
- frankyurban 13y agoIt's an awesome idea, and you've done a great job of making it look sweet. I have actually been working on something similar so that I could connect with the local designers/coders in the Philadelphia area. I'll post it here when its ready :)
- thejosh 13y agoNot sure about the US, but could you file these under "business expenses" for taxes?
- stingraycharles 13y agoDepends on your role within the business of course, but I always file these kind of expenses under business expenses myself. In the end, the meetings help my professional life a lot.
- code_duck 13y agoIf nothing else, it's 'employee benefit programs' which can include education and conferences.
- driverdan 13y agoYes, business networking expenses can be written off.
- joshuaheard 13y agoAFAIK 50% of meals and entertainment expenses can be written off.
- nate 13y agoThis is a tangent, but the post reminded me of this. I've done quite a bit of cold-emailing to reach new mentors and new clients. One of the things I started doing a couple years ago was to offer buying someone I was cold-emailing a "virtual cup of coffee". I even played with using that in the subject of the email. I'd say: I'm working on a new product and I wanted to see if it would be handy for them. If they have a chance to talk on the phone or Skype, I'll send over a gift certificate to Starbucks so they could get their favorite drink before the meeting. Those emails got some nice hit rates in responses and meetings. And you can very easily buy a $5 gift cert. online from Starbucks and email it.
- pvnick 13y agoThat is a brilliant idea! I'll have to try that sometime
- rwc 13y agoEven better -- you can now tweet them a $5 starbucks gift card. https://www.starbucks.com/tweet-a-coffee https://www.starbucks.com/tweet-a-coffee
- brbcoding 13y agoI still want to see this implemented with some local breweries. I'd definitely use tweet-a-beer.
- jaynos 13y agoI agree. Tweet-a-beer (especially for a local brewery) has more of a community feel. Tweet-a-coffee (even though I end up at starbucks almost daily) feels more like giving to a faceless corporation.
- dswiese 13y agodone via Twitter and Chirpify http://tweet-a-beer.com http://tweet-a-beer.com
- philfreo 13y agoI've done a few lunches in SF through http://letslunch.com/ http://letslunch.com/ which I'd recommend if you're looking for a "scalable" version of this.
- sebslomski 13y agoI used to organize something similar in Munich, Germany called NerdLunch. Meetings like this are great to enlarge your network and to not lunch in front of your machine every day. Great to see someone made a website like this, I'll give it a try.
- nilkn 13y agoI'm not in a position of power and probably am not worth meeting, professionally speaking, but hey, if I were in San Francisco, I'd put in an application. :)
- noonespecial 13y agoNot to nitpick... ok actually to nitpick, sorry. Your page bugged my to run a media player, which when allowed, changed to a background that was hard for me to read over and then sat there "buffering" interminably. After 10 minutes it had reached 15%. What happens at 100%? Edit: Ah. It finally got moving. It was coffee pouring. As the background. I guess if I didn't have my browser set so I have to approve plugins and it wasn't being HN'd to slowness so it started right up, that would have been kind of cool. As you were then.
- Tehnix 13y agoHmm, it doesn't seem to work in Safari 7, but does in Chrome. Didn't think anything of it (it was just a orange background in Safari) before you asked. But, yeah, a coffee pouring.
- davb 13y agoAh, so there was supposed to be a video? In Firefox 26 (Linux x64), a cup of coffee briefly flashes up in the background then disappears. I was confused by the "footage from Beachfront B-Roll" notice at the bottom of the page.
- silverlight 13y agoYeah. I mean he's just using a regular ol' <video> tag. So you would presumably have that same issue with any site using HTML5 media tags.
- noonespecial 13y agoOr at least any site with a <video> tag. It will be nice once the standard become ubiquitous. Until then <video> causes decidedly non-deterministic things to happen on the client. I'd still like the ability to approve/disapprove a site that's about to play a 115meg video file as a background!
- tg3 13y agoIf your browser supports WebM, that version of the file is only 6.5MB. I include the MP4 as a backup.
- gcatalfamo 13y agoI LOVE your idea. Since I live in Italy and not SF, I can't grab a coffee with you, but I will still honor your project by borrowing your idea and applying it here. (if that's ok with you) I am going to be in SF in January (not for YC, haha) so I will contact your for an American coffee in a few months.
- zenojevski 13y agoNice, I was thinking of doing the same, too. Plus coffee here is basically a given, so it feels very natural. Where in Italy, if I may? Fellow transplanted milanese here.
- davidw 13y agoI have a standing offer open to buy people a beer/spritz/whatever here in Padova if anyone is in the area.
- gcatalfamo 13y agoI'll contact you if I happen to be in Padova!
- gcatalfamo 13y agoI'm a researcher at Lab#ID (auto-ID Laboratory) at Cattaneo University (LIUC) in Castellanza, 15km north of Milan. If you want to grab coffee or lunch sometime I can show you around the uni. Whenever you're in the area drop me a line: gcatalfamo (at) liuc.it
- simonebrunozzi 13y agoI am Italian and live in San Francisco. Ping me when you arrive :)
- gcatalfamo 13y agoYou can count on it! My treat! [I'm always amazed by the number of Italians I find every time I visit SF]
- pimpl 13y agoNice idea, but… 115 MB video!?
- rafekett 13y agoA friend was doing this in Philadelphia last year and has started doing it in SF http://tea.byankit.com/ http://tea.byankit.com/. Not sure if this idea was inspired by that or an independent discovery -- the design of the pages looks samey but I think basically all designs that have the same color palate from the same year look samey. It's just whatever's in that year.
- sriram_sun 13y agoFolks from companies I wanted to meet: Hobby electronics, robotics etc. Couldn't find any category related to those. Do they have any Denver/Boulder coffee shops in their database? Site seems pretty slow now.
- scottoreilly 13y agoI love it - what a cool idea!
- ankitshah 13y agoI've been doing something like this with a slightly different angle for a while now (see http://tea.byankit.com http://tea.byankit.com + http://tea.byankit.com/penn http://tea.byankit.com/penn). Would love to learn more about your inspiration and see what some of your thinking was behind the initiative. We should talk.
- wehadfun 13y agoAwesome webpage. Love to know if you get any good connections
- 9f94wGqJ4g 13y agoI cringe every time I see a 21 year old call themselves a CTO. Please stop doing that. Just say "founder". You're not a CTO and you won't know what being a CTO entails for another 10 years.
- iamkoby 13y agoJust a reminder- Mark Zuck. was founder, but also CTO, CEO and what not at the age of 21, and of an almost billion $ company in the age of 23. Grow up, the world belongs to the young!
- jonathanjaeger 13y agoThe world belongs to everyone!
- bovermyer 13y agoYou're aware that CTO is a role and not an experience level, right?
- sliverstorm 13y agoEven simply as a role, it doesn't even make sense in a dinky company. Chief technology officer? Does the company even have other people in that branch, or are you de-facto "chief" because you are the only one?
- tinbad 13y agoIn the end it's just a title and we all take those titles with a grain of salt when it comes to startups anyway, right? The original purpose of those titles was for official company contracts anyway, so everybody involved (investors, stakeholders, clients) knows what's up and I agree that possibly 10 or 20 years ago being CEO or CTO had a stronger load in popular language. The fact that it's so easy to start a company anno 2013 makes the use of them way more common. From a practical point of view, CTO is also shorter than "Technical founder".
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- mittermayr 13y agoWe tried building urbanvisitor.com for that purpose.
- christopherryan 13y agoGOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE! Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google!
- kaa2102 13y agoThis is creative. I just had a friend that moved to the DC -area from San Francisco. She works for the Federal Government and mentioned that she felt out of place in San Fran because nearly every one is working on a start up. This post makes it appear that it is really hard to stand out in a crowd.
- Brajeshwar 13y agohttp://letslunch.com/ http://letslunch.com/
- faizanaziz 13y agoEither your looking for a job or your giving a job :)
- chatman 13y agoCould it be possible that this guy is a kidnapper? I would never meet a stranger like this.
- keithpeter 13y agoIn a public place like a coffee shop or something, probably safe. Friend at work tells of a friend of hers meeting a date. The lady picked the bar in New St Station in Birmingham UK. At least 30 police within seconds of there always, and saturation CCTV, has to be the safest meet up place going.
- rayiner 13y agoSomeone needs to make this into a website that arranges coffee dates for people in major metro areas.
- grinich 13y agoOkCupid?
- hakcermani 13y agocoffeemeetsbagel ?
- iambateman 13y agoAnd get bought by Match.com
- pacifi30 13y agotruffle.io ?
- fibbery 13y agosome schoolmates were working on http://coffeeon.me/ http://coffeeon.me/ not sure if it's a full-fledged thing yet though
- TheMagicHorsey 13y agoMeetup.com is a great way to connect with other entrepreneurs in your area.
- rbosinger 13y ago#1? This guy might have to buy a lot of coffees!
- sjreese 13y agotry facebook dot com and setup an event - works better
- tomrod 13y agoI have an embarrassing sort of question for the wise folks in the community. If I don't drink coffee, what should I drink when I take you to coffee?
- web007 13y agoAnything you like. I'm not a coffee person, so I usually get a soda and a snack, something to fiddle with like stirring a coffee.
- ta38383 13y agoTea. Decaf/herbal as desired.
- praxeologist 13y agoI agree. I like both coffee and tea but even for someone who isn't a fan of brown/green tea I suggest some sort of hibiscus. Maybe I am just obsessed with Tazo's Passion blend right now, but I think people who really aren't into tea will still like this. It is tart and lightly fruity + will often be mixed with something like lemongrass to give it a bit of herbaceousness and/or a touch of tropical flavor. I'd also suggest Gen Mai Cha as something which is common enough to be in supermarkets or coffehouses but which is a bit different too due to the toasted rice flavor. If you end up in Starbucks, last I went there was a berry-hibiscus "cooler" or something which was decent as well.
- wdaher 13y agoI think this is an awesome idea regardless of what comes of it. My internal data nerd is dying for a follow-up post with a breakdown: * How many site hits? * How many of those turned into actual coffees? * How many of those actually showed up? (as opposed to being no-shows)
- tg3 13y agoI plan on documenting all of that to satisfy my internal data nerd as well.
- hsukenooi 13y agohttp://coffeeme.in http://coffeeme.in is Tinder for startup people. I've personally used it to meet like 50 people in the past 30 days. Obviously you don't have to meet so many if you don't want :) Disclosure: It's my startup.
- gulbrandr 13y agoOpen your console, you'll see: Mmmm...coffee. { { } }_{ __{ .-{ } }-. ( } { ) |`-.._____..-'| | ;--. | (__ \ | | ) ) | |/ / | / / -Felix Lee- | ( / \ y' `-.._____..-'
- elwell 13y agolooks like from coffeescript readme [0]. [0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/README https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/READM...
- Sukotto 13y agoI like this idea* It does make me wonder though... what does the "typical" startup person do to network in SF? It seems like a lot of people locate there (and accept the high cost of living) in order to cross-pollinate ideas and meet other cool people. But how do you find those people? Are there popular hangouts or events? If so, how do the organizers stop them from sliding into the usual pool of desperate wannabe's pestering the popular people [pretend I insert a dating anecdote here] My guess is that you hit up hackathons, [linux|ruby|whatever] User Groups, or meetup groups for whatever interests you (with the hope that you'll find others with the same vienn overlaps as you with one of the circles being "tehnology|startup|programming|business") * How much advance notice do you need tg3? There's a good chance I'll be passing through SFO tomorrow (Wed Nov 6) or maybe Thu. I'd love to reciprocate coffees with you if you are located within reasonable distance to the airport (I'll need a cab or transit) and it fits your schedule. :) Will post to your form when I finalize my plans.
- OafTobark 13y agoThere are a massive ton of events, pretty much if you wanted to, you can find one almost every day/night, any time of the year. There are TONS of meetups, conferences, hackathons, panels, private or smaller group events, and the list goes on and on. Additionally its a bit hard not to run into someone doing a startup, especially if you're in startup centric districts like SOMA in SF or University Ave in Palo Alto and the various other areas up and down the entire Bay. On top of that, you have various things people engage in to meet other people (dinners, stuff like LetsLunch, etc...). The problem isn't really meeting people, its actually avoiding wasting time and going out too much that leads to non-quality eventful meetings.
- Shweebz 13y agoThis is a great concept. I've always had the intention of meeting people in SF for networking purposes, but it always ends up feeling like a means to an end - I'm a ____, I need a ____, are you the guy? This appears much more casual and open. Looking forward to grabbing coffee with you, sir.
- ollydbg 13y agoGreat, now I am thirsty for some coffee!
- franklovecchio 13y agoIt'd be cool to do this on a city-by-city basis. Like a nano Meetup or something.
- pacifi30 13y agohttp://www.truffle.io/ http://www.truffle.io/ is on similar lines but for dating among start up people. It's only launched in Seattle though. Disclosure: It's my startup :)
- fit2rule 13y agoI think the logical conclusion of this is going to have to be a weekly coffee event, sort of some sort of show or media format, where you podcast a video of the highlights of the week. If you just opened up 'the coffee door' semi-persistently, I'm sure you'd meet a lot of people.
- joshfraser 13y agoI'm a big believer in serendipity. I scheduled a coffee.
- adamzerner 13y agoBrilliant. I'm thinking about doing something along these lines in college. I'd like to meet more cool people, so maybe I'll set up a table with a sign offering free coffee.