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Show HN: Meetabit, a Meetup.com for Tech Communities(meetabit.com)
18 points by olegp 7y ago|8 comments
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by olegp 7y ago
I've started a few meetups and a format that works well is the following: - have one company as the sponsor, providing venue, food and one technical talk - this ensures that the organizers don't need to deal with money which is
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by olegp 7y ago
Another alternative aimed at technical meetups is https://meetabit.com which we built at Toughbyte. I organize a number of technical meetups, such as HelsinkiJS which is the biggest developer meetup in Finland, and have found Me
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by olegp 7y ago
Are you certain it's the lack of degree that's been the problem? I'm running a tech recruitment startup ( https://www.toughbyte.com/ ) and am based in Helsinki, with many of our clients here. In my experience w
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by olegp 8y ago
I saw this post more than eight years ago and commented on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261786 I then started helping Anton out and we managed to hit the front page a few more times: https://hn.algol
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by olegp 9y ago
We haven't. I'll check it out, thanks!
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by olegp 9y ago
If you don't want to give full access to all your data, check out https://starthq.com . We do federated search from the client via an extension. There's also an API which lets you add support for any service you want:
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by olegp 9y ago
We ( http://toughbyte.com ) organize a number of technical meetups ourselves and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit ( https://meetabit.com/ ) which includes some additional fea
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What's in a name? A CSS naming convention overview(blog.toughbyte.com)
7 points by olegp 10y ago|0 comments
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by olegp 10y ago
Good point. AppJet and Akshell had their own built in libraries and guides, whereas with Gomix you're expected to already know about Node, NPM and figure out which libraries to use yourself. This is likely to make this too complex for
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by olegp 10y ago
This is very similar to Akshell ( http://toughbyte.com/akshell/ ) which we worked on more than six years ago with @korenyushkin and that made the front page of HN on a number of occasions. Despite being promoted by Fog C
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by olegp 10y ago
That's a good and concise summary. If you're considering running a meetup but want more info before diving in at the deep end, check out this series of blog posts I've started writing on the topic: https://blog.tou
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by olegp 10y ago
Toughbyte | Moscow, Russia | Full time | ONSITE, REMOTE possible Toughbyte ( http://toughbyte.com ) is a digital agency building web and mobile apps for funded startups and established companies. We're looking for a full stac
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by olegp 10y ago
Developers in Finland don't value salary as much as those in other countries, see here: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#mone... There's also the progressive tax which should be taken i
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by olegp 10y ago
Here's a good post that explains this in a lot more detail: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-hurdles-ex-nokia-employee-n...
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by olegp 10y ago
Yup, we're seeing that at Toughbyte as well, see my other comment. In fact we even have some candidates commuting to Helsinki from St Pete.
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by olegp 10y ago
We at Toughbyte have recruited and relocated almost twenty mid and senior level developers to Finland for our clients in the last year, more info here: http://toughbyte.com/#recruitment I can confirm that there is indeed a
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by olegp 10y ago
Toughbyte | Moscow, Russia | Full time | ONSITE Toughbyte ( http://toughbyte.com ) is a digital agency building web and mobile apps for funded startups and established companies. We're looking for a full stack developer (Rail
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by olegp 10y ago
It would be interesting to know which known startups have a dev team in Russia. I've heard that Uber is one, any others?
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by olegp 10y ago
Tracking the amount of time I spend on various tasks at work. Here's a blog post I helped edit which explains the benefits in detail: https://blog.toughbyte.com/how-to-boost-productivity-with-ti... Another one is track
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by olegp 11y ago
Along similar lines, I made it possible to use NPM packages in the browser without a build step or server: https://github.com/olegp/bpm More info here: https://meetabit.com/talks/37
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by olegp 11y ago
https://meetabit.com - an easier way to run tech and startup meetups As the organizer of HelsinkiJS and a new dad I find it takes too much effort to organize monthly events. Meetabit makes this easier by letting companies offer
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by olegp 11y ago
There's ASCIIFlow for that: http://asciiflow.com/
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by olegp 11y ago
Would be interesting to compare it to AlaSQL ( https://github.com/agershun/alasql ).
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by olegp 11y ago
Omniata - http://omniata.com/careers/ - San Francisco or Helsinki - Full Stack Engineer - Full time, visa Omniata enables the entire digital organization - marketers, product managers and data scientists - to run their
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by olegp 11y ago
Omniata - http://omniata.com/careers/ - San Francisco or Helsinki - Full Stack Engineer - Full time, visa Omniata enables the entire digital organization - marketers, product managers and data scientists - to run their
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by olegp 11y ago
Thanks for mentioning StartHQ! Direct link to the extension to anyone who wants to try it out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/starthq/ilcpdgfepi...
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by olegp 12y ago
Omniata - http://omniata.com/careers/ - San Francisco, Helsinki - Full Stack Engineer - Full time, visa Omniata enables the entire digital organization - marketers, product managers and data scientists - to run their b
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by olegp 12y ago
Agreed, but Node has had co-routines in the form of the node-fibers package since almost the very beginning.
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by olegp 12y ago
Have you come across Sekret Firmy, the Russian startup magazine? I found it surprisingly good: http://www.kommersant.ru/sf/ Does anyone know of any other good region specific startup magazines that are in print?

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