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Hacker News Chicago meetup Wednesday 3/31 at 8pm

Posted by ccg on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @10:17PM
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Chicago hackers: Please join us for the next Hacker News Chicago meetup on Wednesday, 3/31/2010, at 8:00pm at the Hophaus (646 N. Franklin, 312-280-8832, http://www.thehophaus.com/). Please join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago) for announcements and hacker discussions, and follow us on twitter or identi.ca (@hnchicago).

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Re:Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Servi... on Friday December 04, 2009 @04:49PM (#977277)
There was a discussion about that on HN that a while back. It sounds like the answer is "yes," but only to a point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598974
Re:Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Servi... on Thursday December 03, 2009 @08:30PM (#975611)
Braintree is expensive when you're just getting started. Their API is nicer than authorize.net's API, but if you're using a service like Spreedly, it's Spreedly's API you'll be talking to, not Braintree's.
Re:Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Servi... on Thursday December 03, 2009 @08:09PM (#975576)
I haven't spent much time looking at PayPal's API, but it looks like that more of a competitor to something like braintree or authorize.net. It's just for processing the payment, right? The services I'm looking at here manage the entire subscription process. Essentially, you're outsourcing your billing system to them so that you don't have to think about things like dealing with the dunning process or prorating the bill if the user upgrades their plan mid-month, etc.
Re:Hacker News Chicago meetup Tuesday (11/17) at 7pm on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @07:28PM (#934303)
I don't know if I should have emphasized this more in the original post, but 11/17 is next Tuesday, not today. :) I wanted to give everybody a week's notice to make plans.
Re:Hacker News Chicago meetup Tuesday (11/17) at 7pm on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @07:19PM (#934290)
Jake, I'm glad you did ChicagoTechCal. I've been meaning to do something like that ever since we had Chicago Startup Weekend overlapping Flourish Conf, and only a week after PyCon. I'm sorry about the overlap; Chicago has at least one person going to interview at YC, and we wanted to have the meetup before he leaves on Wednesday morning. We've already announced Tuesday night as the next meetup, so we should probably leave it, but we'll check the calendar next time to avoid an overlap.

Hacker News Chicago meetup Tuesday (11/17) at 7pm

Posted by ccg on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @06:11PM
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Chicago hackers: Please join us for the next Hacker News Chicago meetup on Tuesday, 11/17/2009, at 7:00pm at the Hophaus (646 N. Franklin, 312-280-8832, http://www.thehophaus.com/). Please join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago) and follow us on twitter or identi.ca (@hnchicago) and let us know if we should expect you.

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Re:Chicago HN'ers: I made an iPhone/Android version of Metra's train s... on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @03:41PM (#879902)
+1. If you wanted to geek out or maybe demo something you're working on, Sully's Pub near North and Halsted might work. Chicago's Python and Android groups have met there a few times. They have a room upstairs with wifi and a projector, although I'm not sure if you can use that room unless you have a ChiPy-size group to buy enough food and drink.