Filled the form and included my email with the HN user ID just in case you'd be willing to deliver the meeting details that way when they've been decided.
The phone number is not associated with WhatsApp (never had it, and won't), but it works with Signal in case it would be more viable option for meetup info comms than email. Who knows, perhaps even a shadow group already exists there, or has potential to get established?
Thank you for arranging such gatherings, hoping to meet up soon!
But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nice if this inspired other groups to form too.
I'm sure there are other HN local meetups who could post in this thread - please do if you have a local meetup
Like, worst case scenario we just start with the two of us.
I can use the work office, have more then enough coffee, tea etc. with space to around 150 people.
https://forms.gle/2pDEkQTYihQ4txK29
(Copy pasted the form. Why change a winning team)
That would allow using it with strangers, without sharing a number, in the future.
> Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. telephone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States.
Not sure what I'm supposed to do with a US phone number anyway, I'd probably be more embarrassed about using a US phone number then letting people in a HN meetup group see my real phone number.
Im envious of the startup atmosphere you got there, particularly the more "socialized" less cutthroat d*k waving sense of it .
I would've gladly joined if you hadn't decided on a service owned by Meta...
WhatsApp messages I get immediately.
I tend to like the smaller meetups that are focused. But they often degrade in quality as they scale. A failure mode I hit several times was group circles with a louder or opinionated person eventually entering and taking the focus of the group. For large meetups that's not an issue I suppose. Break-out groups did work, but it needs some planning.
I can make a post about it promoting it.
https://meet.hn/city/59.4372155,24.7453688/Tallinn (7 people)
https://meet.hn/city/59.4372420,24.7572693/Tallinn (1 person)
How does one bootstrap a meet from this? Just explore the map around my location and try to get in contact with people somehow?
Then you trawl through your set of qualified leads :)
That's a hard no. You really, really should use Signal instead.
Edit: It doesn't even seem to be strictly required https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181030
Or link them and more via a Matrix server - but that would require a bit more work to do.
> they have a non-greenname account
> they have 64 karma or more
Is the karma checked at the door or is it at the time of submission? Seems like somebody could be at 12 and then post “actually I believe the general consensus on gravity is wrong” in the right thread the night before and roll in with 89 points