Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia

Posted by netcan on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:39AM
from the self-post dept.

I have time of my hands at the moment. I'm not sure what would be useful to offer specifically, but maybe my location can be useful. Do you need anything done down under?

Don't be afraid to ask anything, if it's not something I can (or want to) do, I'll just say so. Go and chat to one of your clients? I dunno. Maybe you do.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by barrydahlberg on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:11AM (#1837643)

Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ.

I'm over the ditch in Auckland currently but I spent a year living in South Yarra and even met my wife there.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by bootload on Thursday October 28, 2010 @12:04AM (#1841672)

"... Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? ..."

Start at http://thehive.org.au/category/melbourne/ (entrepreneurs) then try http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspa... (hacker spaces, software/hardware) then try (late night hacking) at http://twitter.com/melnightowls or day time hacking at http://www.inspire9.com.au/ then maybe a weekly morning meeting of (nerds/hackers/media) at SocialMelbourne http://twitter.com/socialmelb Thats just off the top of my head. Also try looking through my melbourne twit list ~ http://twitter.com/#/list/bootload/melbourne There is a cross pollination of hackers/devs/design activity at http://trampolineday.com/

"... How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ. ..."

SV is the startup hub either side of the Tasman. I haven't been to NZ before, but the business culture (stale, crusty & risk adverse) would be similar. Like NZ lots of smart people, starved of YC type Angel investment advice. One difference I'm noticing is the quality and frequency of startups with direct US/YC/SV experience is increasing. Melbourne is pretty busy :)

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by hoochsta on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:09PM (#1841400)

i'm sitting on my bed in south yarra now!

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by 2bHalfMad on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @09:05PM (#1841206)

Nice to meet you, netcan. I'm in Melbourne, started my online toy store venture 2 years ago for about 1 year and half, did alot of web site development back there and it failed. still following up my dream to be a great entrepreneur. Keep your spirit up, you will get there. :)

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by netcan on Thursday November 04, 2010 @07:59PM (#1871378)

Nice to meet you.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by bhoung on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @07:16PM (#1840883)

I'm in Melb. It'd be great to have a chat, bump heads with another HNer. Can you contact me via the details in my profile.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by dolphenstein on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @07:45PM (#1840979)

I'm in! I can be reached at adyster(at)gmail.com.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by bhoung on Thursday October 28, 2010 @11:56PM (#1846052)

We've organised a meetup at 5:30 on Wednesday 3 Nov for those of you who are interested. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846042

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by prawn on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @06:03PM (#1840658)

I'm in Adelaide. Email me if you want to trade notes and talk about ideas on IM, get feedback about things, etc.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by nl on Thursday October 28, 2010 @01:18AM (#1841834)

Adelaide here, too.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by prawn on Thursday October 28, 2010 @05:49AM (#1842338)

Same goes for you too - always up for bouncing around ideas.

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by Biztactix on Thursday October 28, 2010 @05:31AM (#1842304)

Alice Springs Myself, amazing the culture exists in Aus, was wondering if i'd have to move...

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Re:Offer HN - Help from someone in melbourne, australia by derrida on Thursday October 28, 2010 @07:52AM (#1842529)

sydney here

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