Monthly HN Office Hours

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57 points·kevin··6 comments

I like the idea of monthly HN office hours. However, Ive been to a YC office hour previously, and one of the most important aspects was the back and forth dialog. I question the effectiveness of the format.

For example, after hearing a response it seemed the follow up questions were more important than the inital engagment. Is there room for dialog or is it more just a Q&A?

Also, I would recommend keeping a list of all office hours as to avoid repeat questions (Although many answers are crafted to the situation).

It's not ideal and it won't be as good as in person office hours, but we think there's value even in this format. I believe there was some back and forth in some of the threads the last time we did it.

The link in "...reviewing Show HN projects..." is broken, looks like a typo.

Should be fixed now. Just went to rules for Show HN. Thanks for head's up.

This is slightly off topic, but what determines when a YC announcement is posted on Posthaven as opposed to http://themacro.com ? (Same question about sama's essay today)

Official news from YC will show up on the blog. Announcements about and from our organization. We also put launches of new YC companies on the blog.

We won't be breaking any news on The Macro. The Macro's content is not meant to be time sensitive at all and we want it to incorporate lots of voices from the YC / startup universe.

Sam's post could have been put on The Macro, but I think he just wanted to get the ideas out there quickly since we're just starting a new batch and everyone has goal setting on their minds right now.

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