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Show HN: CTOnet, a private community for CTOs and engineering leaders

15 points| bkanber | 6 years ago |ctonet.io | reply

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[+] dossy|6 years ago|reply
Hi, Burak - are you just launching this or do you already have people participating?
[+] bkanber|6 years ago|reply
Just launching. I'm going to fill up the first batch and run just that one for a while. If it's working well I'll start opening up more batches.

I'm hoping for the first batch to include 3 people I know personally, plus a dozen brand-new friends.

[+] bwb|6 years ago|reply
Fantastic idea and very cool to see, I'd love to hear how it goes as you get going. Reminds me of Vistage/EO but for CTOs a bit.
[+] bkanber|6 years ago|reply
So far so good, already have enough applicants to fill Batch #1!
[+] julianlam|6 years ago|reply
What forum software are you using?
[+] bkanber|6 years ago|reply
I custom built it in node. It's a straightforward forum, except with the private groups feature, some modtools for this specific use-case, saving items, and elasticsearch-powered fulltext.

Its best feature is that it doesn't use React or a fancy frontend. It's just server-side rendered, very lightweight, and lightning fast. Still nice and usable though.

[+] johnmarcus|6 years ago|reply
lol. didn't angel list start off as something like this? it's an itsy bitsy tiny market, even if every cto joined. personally, the domain sounds pretentious and douchy, and as a cto i would not want to join simply because it sets the wrong impression that "i'm better than you and you are not qualifed to discuss real matters with me - also, as CTO, rest assured I'm only transparent with folks 'at my level', although our company promises transparency to everyone".

also, i could fake those credentials in a heart beat.

just my 2cents, good luck with it though.

[+] bkanber|6 years ago|reply
Market size isn't a consideration here.. I just like building communities and getting people to help each other. When you're talking about small groups of a dozen people, it doesn't matter so much if there's only 100 or a million in the world.

And I'm certainly open to suggestions on the domain, if you have any ideas!

[+] sergiotapia|6 years ago|reply
The domain doesn't sound pretentious to me at all. Just a niche forum to discuss things managing and running the tech for a company. I'd love to join and hear from the trenches stories and make contacts.