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53 pointsmahipal15y ago11 comments

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mahipalOP15y ago· 4 in thread

Backstory: I'm starting a company to produce educational games (you can probably guess the URL) and I went looking for the "HN for Education" post from a while back. I think it's important to have such a site for the education community.

It turns out (for whatever reason) that news site was taken down, so I've spent the last week or so getting the reddit codebase running and customized on a VPS. (Many thanks to spladug and alienth of the reddit dev team for humoring all my dumb questions and helping me get the code running.)

The goal is to provide a central place where everyone in education/technology can come together to discuss news, startups, and ideas. This is all about the community, and I wouldn't have gotten this far without everyone who's helped me along the way. The education-startup community is very young, so I hope to see you guys voting/contributing there. If you're working in this space, I'd be happy to help you out however I can -- feel free to drop me an email.

tereno15y ago

Thanks for setting this up! I am looking to get into the education space and am trying to generate some ideas on how I can build a business around education that is sustainable. If any of you have ideas, I would be happy to hear it.

danielford15y ago

It's a shame the previous site didn't work out. I remember seeing a frustrated comment by the person who set it up that hackers didn't care about education.

Hopefully this one goes better. I've already registered.

rafaelc15y ago

We (LearnBoost) were the ones that put it up about a year ago after about an hour of work - it's a simple but powerful concept, in theory [1].

We ended up taking it down a month or two ago because it never really grew into anything significant.

Hopefully this new version works out better!

[1] Post about our version: http://blog.learnboost.com/blog/hackernews-for-education/

jonnycat15y ago

Awesome idea -- very useful. Thank you!

djb_hackernews15y ago· 1 in thread

why not /r/education?

mahipalOP15y ago

It's a nice thought, but I think it's important to have a separate community. The goal is to create a place with serious discussion where professionals can gather, and I think it sends the wrong message if it's one click away from r/lolcats. (This is not to mention all the NSFW content, or the meme-accounts, which could very easily scare away a fledgling community.)

sandal15y ago

Great idea! I am starting up an education related non-profit and running a free online school for programmers (http://university.rubymendicant.com), and am definitely interested in reading posts about education in general, as well as forming a HN-like community around it.

Thanks for setting this up.

ahmedsiddiqui15y ago

Mahipal, thank you very much for setting this up. You have been such a great help to me as I'm also working on an educational game company. This resource is going to be really huge for all of us trying to revolutionize the field of education!

kellysutton15y ago

Cool. We'll keep an eye on it at HackCollege :)

binxbolling15y ago

"This is fuckin' rad. Thanks!" - Abraham Lincoln

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