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Y Combinator/HN Forum?

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What do you guys think of a YCombinator/HN forum? I can use my current vBulletin lease, would any other people be interested in taking part in this project?

I plan on having a real-time chat IRC for HN, and a YCombinator FAQ Forum, where hackers/entrepreneurs can enjoy their time at, etc.

Would any designers/developers be interested in this side project?

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I suspect the best course of action is to build it so that folks can better evaluate how compelling it is. I also doubt a Vbulletin-based solution is going to fly with this audience.

vBulletin is very open-based, I have a license that I paid a while back of $200.

I'm looking for others who are interested to take part in this new community board.

No offense but that's some strange advice. OP would likely have to spend 10-20 hours getting it to a point where it would be usable/impressive. Personally I think it's wise that he asks the community if they are even interested before he spends that sort of time.

Correct, I'm looking for people who would take this interesting, and would spend their time on it, as they do on HN.

Also, a side note was I'm also looking for developers/designers who would like to have this as a fun side (paid) job.

Sorry, but the culture here is more of the variety that if you think you have a good idea, you build it and see what people think. Code speaks. You're not going to get terribly actionable feedback here as you would if you had something to show. There's a whole genre of "Show HN" and weekend projects.

That's not exactly true. I'm not new here. Just because there's a bunch of teens and young 20s doing "Show HN" stuff doesn't mean that "Build first, find market second" is the best thing in all situations, does it? Lots of "Show HN" stuff is of the "Hey, I'm learning {new language} and built this to help learn it. What do you think?" variety which doesn't apply here.

The way I see it the guy asked a question hoping to help the community and you are flippantly telling him his question is worthless; that you won't give him "actionable feedback" until he spends 20-30 hours on it. Pshaw.

It's not that it's teens and 20-somethings. It's that it's "Hacker News" and the culture drafts off of pg and Y Combinator. If you think you have a good idea, you build it. I was not being flippant at all. There is an extreme bias towards building in this community. Sorry.

I disagree, respectfully of course. Rather than "build it", I think the culture here is "fail fast". What better way to fail fast than to figure out that you should not waste your time building something because no one cares/needs it?

>>I also doubt a Vbulletin-based solution is going to fly with this audience.

Webmasterworld uses a traditional forum software like vbulletin and it works quite well. Audience of HN and webmasterworld are not very different by standards.

"Audience of HN and webmasterworld are not very different by standards." cough

How would this be different from what HN already offers?

Well the community forum would offer a real-time member chat (IRC Room).

Y Combinator fellows and or future applicants would get together socially, ask questions, receive advice, etc.

With the exception of IRC, that is pretty much what happens here.

and freenode #startups is basically HN irc

https://convore.com/hacker-news/

Chat rooms wouldn't be interesting to me. Finding a way to get away from what HN has become and get back to where it was 1-2 years ago would be interesting.

Honestly? Bad idea. We already have a place to talk.

I believe I will start this community, and hopefully get some advertising down within the HN community.

I would really appreciate it if users can help out, or donate some of their time to this community board.

I'm looking for additional Administrators, Moderators, Designers, and Programmers to join the sub-groups I will be creating.

Please post below if you are interested!

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