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Re:Ask HN: What about Think HN? by ploggingdev on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:18AM (#16297497)
I don't think that's a good fit for HN. A chat room format might make more sense and I'm actually trying to build something similar to what you described : a chat room to discuss anything related to tech and startups. It's appropriately called Hackers Chat [0]. It's currently a single chat room, but I'll be adding support for user created chat rooms and try to become "Discord for cryptocurrencies".

[0] https://www.hackerschat.net/

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Re:Ask HN: What about Think HN? by rapnie on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:55AM (#16297619)
given your interest for cryptocurrencies, shouldn't you make this a decentralized app.. or is it?

but then it would be like Mastodon and already exists :)

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Re:Ask HN: What about Think HN? by ploggingdev on Saturday February 03, 2018 @09:17AM (#16297694)
It's not decentralized, just a simple website built using Django. The idea is to host chat rooms for people (including non-technical folks) who are interested in cryptocurrencies. I'm still figuring out how to differentiate my website from Discord/Gitter.im and one of the ideas I'm considering is to have widgets that display the prices for btc, eth etc.

> but then it would be like Mastodon and already exists :)

Yup, IRC and Mastadon and a whole lot of other services exist but they are not easy to use for non-technical people. Web based chat is much easier to use.

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