Re:Where are the Indian hackers at?
by jarsj on Sunday October 24, 2010 @04:07AM
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please stop creating such groups. What do you want to do that can not be done at HN ?
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Focus. I don't think the discussion of Fund Raising in Bangalore would be interesting to all HN users, but I think it will be interesting to people from India, so I would like to have such a focussed group.
Also there are many Focussed groups of HN users on Google group.
Can you point me to atleast one "active" group out there ? http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news, check out the post frequency, member size etc.
The use cases you mention are very few and can be easily addressed with HN tags. Example : "HN India : Fundraising event in Bangalore ?" or "HN India : Let's have a meetup in Mumbai." If it's interesting to indian HNers they will upvote it and follow it up.
Realize, that starting a group is easy, building a tribe around it is not. There are many things that made people come to HN, Paul Graham, Ycombinator, Startup School, a custom and simple software. Good content came later.