Lanyrd Guides: Hacker News Meetups
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Lanyrd Guides: Hacker News Meetups
Guide to upcoming HN meetups worldwide. Have we missed any?
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How HN took it
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Glad someone is promoting upcoming meetups; meetup posts no longer reach the front page
From 2 comments
I'm really glad for this post. I'm the organizer of LA Hacker News ( http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ ), and I've found that posts for upcoming metups just don't…
andrewvc on HNSan Diego - http://cses.ucsd.edu/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Hacker_News_Meetup Agree with andrewvc about it being increasingly impossible to get meetup announcements onto the HN…
compumike on HN
Objections
Critic calls HN promotion by a YC startup a sales pitch
From 1 comment
Shocking to see yet another YC "start-up" hawking the essential nonsense which is HN. Sell, sell, sell you have 14 minutes before the patina fades.
pgisstilladick on HN
Meetup already lists HN groups automatically by topic
From 1 comment
btw, meetup already does this automatically on a topic basis. Your group only has one topic, hacking, so it will show up on the map at http://hacking.meetup.com. Likewise, you…
bgruber on HN
Requests
Filter the guide by geography
From 1 comment
Feature request: easily filter by geography. As much as I would like to go, Tokyo and Amsterdam are out of driving distance for me. I can search, but then I lose the HN specific…
SoftwareMaven on HN
Alternatives named
Meetup topic maps for hacking and hacker news groups
From 1 comment
btw, meetup already does this automatically on a topic basis. Your group only has one topic, hacking, so it will show up on the map at http://hacking.meetup.com. Likewise, you…
bgruber on HN