Looks pretty nice! You have a classic chicken and egg problem...nobody will be active on it until other people are active on it. But with you in NY, me in Chicago, and presumably many HNers in SF it shouldn't be too hard to get a few first meetings going.
(And if anyone wants to talk to a young, ignorant hacker who just inherited a startup and works for a second...hit me up! http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98727/pub)
Thanks! I thought about astroturfing my area with accounts just to make it not look like a ghost town, but felt it was against the spirit. I felt the best thing that I could do in this respect would be to make sign-up as frictionless and semi-anonymous as I could (plus let people toggle on and off account visibility) because I and most other tech folk I know are hyper-protective of their identity online. One of the huge turn-offs of Coder's Coffee for me was mandatory sign-up-via-linkedin. My modest goal for the end of the week is to make one local appointment for myself.
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Looks pretty nice! You have a classic chicken and egg problem...nobody will be active on it until other people are active on it. But with you in NY, me in Chicago, and presumably many HNers in SF it shouldn't be too hard to get a few first meetings going.
(And if anyone wants to talk to a young, ignorant hacker who just inherited a startup and works for a second...hit me up! http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98727/pub)
Thanks! I thought about astroturfing my area with accounts just to make it not look like a ghost town, but felt it was against the spirit. I felt the best thing that I could do in this respect would be to make sign-up as frictionless and semi-anonymous as I could (plus let people toggle on and off account visibility) because I and most other tech folk I know are hyper-protective of their identity online. One of the huge turn-offs of Coder's Coffee for me was mandatory sign-up-via-linkedin. My modest goal for the end of the week is to make one local appointment for myself.