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We made a hacker news map so you can hang out with other readers in the cities you're in: https://summerplaybook.com/g/HN-Map/e2e3d3bc5699417b8c54bbb252bebbf1?in=v6&rn=hn
We run this website, summer playbook, which helps college students meet others near them over the summer
Thought we'd toss up a hacker news map while we're at it. Catch us around the birthplace of YC, Cambridge, MA, if you sign up :)
It could use a little polish on some of the edges but it gets the job done. The goal here is just to help people meet others around them.
Though we wouldn't mind if a startup or two resulted from it (see: how the zapier founders met!)
If it turns out a lot of people really like it, maybe we'll polish it up some more, but we're mostly focused on freight software right now and really just want this to help us meet other HN readers. How it works is you add your name, location, any travel dates, and a bio. You'll then see a map with other HN users and can message them. They'll then get an email with your email in the 'replyto' section.
P.S. there's a part in the signup where you can add your gmail contacts -- feel free to skip that. It adds a "gmail contacts" map where you can see others who opted in on a map, if that's something interesting to you. It's a way to see friends and acquaintances using the site even when they're on other maps.
Examples:
- An individual's experience with dropshipping, from first finding out about the concept, to raising money, to the calls and negotiations they had to make to put it all together, to how they're faring now and thoughts they had on the process
- An individual's experience starting a grocery store, covering how they put together the funds, decided where to open the store, supply their shelves, hire their workers, keep track of how well they're doing
- An individual's experience building a network and name in the sneakerhead world. How they talk shop with buyers and sellers, how they manage their inventory, how they keep up to date on things
- An individual's experience quickly piggybacking off of recent trends for a quick buck, like making a flappy bird clone, pokemon go map, deepstyle image maker, or particular meme maker
- An individual's experience investing their savings. How they learned about investing, information about it, the many choices and trade-offs one can make, including specific things like why they choose e-trade vs fidelity.
- An individual's experience living cheaply by passively referring lots of people to on-demand delivery startups
- A startup's experience self-funding themselves by selling cereal boxes with presidential candidates' faces on the box.
- A farmer's story of how they maintain their farm, the daily, weekly, and seasonal considerations of their job, who they answer to
(more examples in comment)