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You really think that those who post the most on HN would make the best hackers or founders? An HN thread sounds just as reasonable an idea as any other.
by hack_edu 17y ago
You really think that those who post the most on HN would make the best hackers or founders?
An HN thread sounds just as reasonable an idea as any other.
- nostrademons 17y agoThat's the point of bullet point #2. The advantage of going for top posters is that you have a lot of data to judge whether you'd like to work with them. While if someone pops up to answer just one question, you have virtually nothing to go on. Is he a really sharp guy who doesn't have time for HN? Or just an opportunist? That said, I don't think this is a particularly good idea. The best way to find out if you'd make a compatible team is to actually go and work with someone. When I've turned down startups, it's often not because I thought the idea or other team members were bad (often times, they're very good), it's because I don't feel any particular passion for working on that particular problem with those particular people.
- SwellJoe 17y agoYou really think that those who post the most on HN would make the best hackers or founders? No, but you've gotta filter somehow. There are thousands of HN users. At least the ones with a lot of posts are a known quantity. It's the same reason I like to hire developers that work on Open Source software. They may not be the best (or they may be), but I know with much greater accuracy what I'm getting. I personally wouldn't start a startup with someone I met on Hacker News, and didn't know in any other way. But OP wanted to know, and so I told him how I'd do it if I had such an inclination.