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Ask HN: College startups?

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I know that there are a lot of techie college start ups but there doesn't seem to be a community for them anymore. I remember back in the day we had collegemogul.com and now every so often I see an article or two about college kids on TC.. Is that it for coverage on dorm room startups?

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It's funny you mention this. I'm a fledgling programmer, early into my college career. For one of my first projects ever, I'm beginning to write a web application for college students to share and collaborate on ideas, hopefully helping people creating startups.

Just this past weekend, I taught myself enough Ruby (on Rails) to get the basic application down. My next steps involve designing a nice UI and to add more connection features.

I don't really have enough done to post anything here yet, but if there's something you'd really like to see in a web app like this, your advice is most welcome.

Current student in NYC, building a bootstrapped SaaS application.

Would love to see more stuff coming from students on HN, rather then reading for x time about funding, viral social mashup pseudo startups and top 10 lists... of things to do and not to do...

I always felt that HN was a community for the dorm room startup but I may be mistaken about the average age of trolls on this site. I am personally in college and would like to know if my assumption was wrong about the average HN'er.

Velocity residence at the University of Waterloo is basically for the purpose of dorm room startups.

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca

Awesome. I've actually never heard of this despite being a Toronto resident (or ex-resident)

Sounds good everyone.. We should get a separate section or mailing list going. I'm based in Boston if anyone wants to help set up a meetup around there or NYC next next weekend Feb 25th-28th

College student here, working on a startup. I've actually gone part-time on classes to work on my project full-time.

College sophomore here working on a SaaS web app. I always wonder where the other people my age are.

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