Since only two people are involved, less time is spent on planning and deciding on a date. At least so I thought.

I'll join the linked group.

Start here. All you need to do is match up HN usernames with their geo-cooredinates, and dump the coordinates into a Google map.

Then at least you'd have an idea where the clusters are, and can work from there on how to setup a meeting (maybe via Meetup.com which is pretty good for this task btw).

I say this because HN (and online forums, message boards, etc, in general), in my opinion, helps to solve a problem that existed prior to its existence. That problem being that there are a lot of people with the knowledge and ability to help each other with tech and business, but they're all spread out so it's difficult to meet in person. Message boards like Stack Overflow, Quora and HN help bridge that separation. Your site, on the other hand, is attempting to tackle that issue head on by providing a way to help people setup in person meetups, except that you have an added difficulty in the fact that you're pitching it to a crowd of people using a service that allowed them to come together because they're all spread apart in the first place! (whew)

Now, obviously your idea works elsewhere - meetup.com. They're focusing on a much broader target market, though. Perhaps for your idea to work you could include ways to help HNers make it possible to meet up in person? Perhaps locate cheap plane ticket pricing, or groupon-esque deals for restaurants and let them make reservations. Those are just some less informal ideas, but I think something along those lines might be helpful to your service.

About the idea of helping people meet by allowing them to find deals, etc. That's a good idea and I did think of that, but the current version of hackerlunch.com is just an MVP. I launched it not so that people use it, but more to find out if people are even interested in meeting "strangers from the internet". If I find that there is an interest, then I'll be working on a more full-fledged website with more advanced features.

I think something like http://www.meetup.com/ or http://www.nerddinner.com/ would work better.

1) It looks far more like people just posting an introduction about themselves. Let's say that a month from now you have 200 posts on it, and I'm looking to see if anyone wants to get lunch in Santa Monica. This doesn't appear terribly easy, and being lazy I'm not going to spend more than about 1 minute trying to find people.

2) I don't see that any of these expires. If I post for lunch in an hour and a half or so, it will live on forever. This is much more an event and time-based thing, yet the records live on more like a blog/news/announcement section.

Dates, times, and locations should be displayed well, a search by city would be most useful as well.

http://promenade.thursdaylunch.com/ - exactly a lunch in santa monica :)

http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ - a broader meetup group

And if you're ever up for Tuesday evening dinners with Cocoa developers (any level of knowledge/experience, but devs only please, no headhunting and marketing stuff), there's NSCoder Night in Santa Monica that I regularly attend, feel free to contact me for details.

Here's some HTML/JS code for a form + map: http://pastebin.com/57nw4awx

And then you can follow this tutorial to create the map showing all the submissions: http://www.hackerlunch.com/

But about your site - it looks fine to me, although I would make the 'cards' smaller and over a couple of columns because it takes a lot of space this way. Also, I'd make the "Location" a field rather than something you put in the description because it's going to get difficult to find a relevant entry very quickly.

If the hacker lunch idea doesn't work out, you can turn it into a hacker friendly cooking/food site for lunch ideas. :D

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722

Plus, its not free to start a new meetup.