Tell HN: HN London Meetup

HNLondon run until at least 2018[1] and were well organised IMO. The speakers line up were mostly very interesting. And some of the recordings of the talks are still available at https://vimeo.com/hnlondon

If I'm not mistaken the organisers of HNLondon in its final years were Dmitri Grabov[2] and Stevie Buckley[3].

One recurring issue that I recall was the typical audience member trying to hijack Q&A to promote stuff - i.e. "can I ask a question?" then proceeds to make a comment and pitch their product instead. But that's not isolated to HNLondon.

PS: Big shoutout to Dmitri and Stevie for the awesome events that they put together back in the day.

[1] https://twitter.com/HNLondon/with_replies

[2] https://twitter.com/dmitrigrabov

[3] https://twitter.com/StevieBuckley

As much as I like reading and commenting on HN, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable socialising with opinionated geeks :)

There used to be and it was great. If you give more notice next time I’ll try to turn up.

This makes me wish there was a consolidated monthly “Events” thread, like the hiring/freelancer threads.

I’d love to be able to skim such a list once a month and see if anything interesting is coming up.

love to see this - the london HN meetup is where we found our first few engineering hires at monzo!

we owe a lot to dmitri, stevie and that meetup

my email address is first name at monzo.com if you're looking for a place to host it

Hey HN Folks, Let's plan a meetup in Bangalore (Bengaluru)? Who are in Bangalore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32662083

Related, I started a rather successful tech meetup in Tampa, Fl. In just under a year we grew it to 1000 active members. We're expected to hit 30-50k revenue (possibly even higher) as a almost newly nonprofit next year that we're putting back into the community

https://www.tampadevs.com/

Https://Meetup.com/tampadevs

If anyone wants to emulate this work for their own community, I've written a series of blog posts about the challenges I've had to solve along the way. For context I have about a decade of experience in startups and building communities, and have alot of awesome advisors more experienced than me guiding me through all of this

https://www.vincentntang.com/tags/tampa-devs/

Feel free to hit me up on personal blog to reach out to me or on Twitter in my profile if you would like advice on starting a tech community

Anyone interested in a Berlin version?

HackerNest is another good one, I hosted a couple of these when I was part of a co-working space - https://hackernest.com/events

I wonder if there's any interest in a meetup in the North East, probably Newcastle. Or if it'd just be me drinking in a pub on my own.

Either way, I'm tempted to organise it.

@connorlu My employer has offices across the major UK cities including London.

I doubt there would be any cost but it would likely need to be planned a month or so in advance as the building managers and security need to be briefed and approve it.

Most buildings would have conference spaces etc which would be suitable for talks, and pretty central so could head for a drink afterward.

Let me know if interested, it might be an easier option to manage if going broader across the UK.

Hi HN, we're overwhelmed by the response to this event - it seems like something that has really struck a chord with the London tech community.

We are still looking to confirm a venue for next week, thanks to everyone that has reached out with an offer for this so far. If you are able offer space for this, or a future event - it would be great to hear from you, my email is firstname at oneslipstream.com

HNLondon was my absolute favorite meetup. Maybe it was where I was at the time in my career, or the state of the London tech community in the early 2010s, but it was such an exciting time. The talks were interesting, and the post-event drinks were fun. Met some great people. I live in the US now, but if this will be a regular event, I'm sure I could attend at least one event a year.

Miami folks - interested? reply here and ill ping back if we get 4 folks or more

We have started a sucessful one in Taipei, Taiwan a few months ago [1] with 40+ hackers.

If folks here interested into an other one, reach me out or reply here.

[1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taipei-hacker-news-meetup-1-tic...

Went to a bunch of the original meetups years ago, good times! Pizza was great :)

Dmitri did a great job organising it all and kindly let me speak about our startup at one of the events. I was completely overshadowed by an amazing talk on quantum computers by a very educated and funny guy afterwards though, 10/10 best talk I've ever seen.

I organized a popular coding meetup - called Let's Code Together - in 2018 in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). I'm thinking of doing the same kind of meetup thing in Arnhem/Nijmegen area (The Netherlands) for HN. Anybody interested?

I just want to say thanks for taking the innitiative and setting it up. Although I'm not in london I would've gone if I was nearby. YC just did an official one near me in Boston and there seemed to be lots of enthusiasm.

Anyone in Amsterdam interested?

I've attended the HN London meetup and the HN Paris meetup that was sponsored at the time by Github(?). Met the engineers from Mindgeek, loads of fun learning how they store and classify petabytes of video.

I just registered.

Important question (probably the most important in such events):

... will there be pizza?

I'll sign up! A lot of meetups have died recently so there is a definite desire to get going again.

The quality has been fairly low from the stuff I've been to lately (not to name any names).

That sounds a great idea!

Our company has an Office in Canary Wharf and we'd be happy to host the event in our building. It's a WeWork so quite easy to set it up.

Could it be of interest?

@dang

An idea: a monthly post (like whoishiring) for HN meetups announcements around the world. I believe there are enough people interested in this.

I organise meetup groups in Manchester. I have a venue nailed down. Who is interested in a similar HN Meetup but in Manchester?

Are there any good similar get togethers in NYC these days? I used to be a part of NYTM all the time but when I started looking around this year it seemed like basically everything has gone virtual at this point.

Any regular coding or tech adjacent get togethers happening in the actual real world in NYC these days?

Has there even been / would anybody be interested in a Toronto HN meetup?

I feel like this city is certainly tech-heavy enough that we could organize something nice!

Please let me know here if that’s something that potentially interests you.

I am a fan of in-person Internet forum meetups and have had some of my best social memories from them. :)

Amazing idea @connorlu.

I won't be in London at that time so made a virtual video event for this at the same time.

Feel free to use it how you'd like.

https://vibehut.io/rooms/630f5b614c9de70016e36f20

Great idea! Can't make this one but have joined the group to look out for future meetups.

Greater Bay Area, China if anyone's still here. I propose Shenzhen on the 10th as it's pretty much central in transit terms and the current snap lockdowns of Shenzhen and Guangzhou should be over by then.

Based in Cambridge and would consider travelling down for the occasional meetup - but would really appreciate some of the events being virtual if possible?

I've signed up. It's a bit short notice, and I don't know if I can rejuggle to attend, but I'm definitely interested in future meetups.

Unfortunately I've moved from London to Oxford recently. If the location is anywhere near Victoria Station I'd consider the trip though :)

This is great, I am on Leave outside London ATM. I will join the group, this is a great opportunity to meet and share ideas post lockdown

This is a good idea. I'm not in London much at the moment but could be tempted to attend an event at some point in the future.

Bit short notice for me but I've joined the group and would love to come in the future. Thanks for taking the initiative!

I've signed up, but won't make the first. If you run a second with a couple weeks forewarning I'll try attend.

Anyone interested in Nürnberg/Nuremberg?

I'm thrilled to join. I just moved to London (tomorrow).

Great stuff. Thanks for doing that! #golondon

Anyone up to do one of these in Lisbon ?

What happened to the event page?

good idea, added to my calendar