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A Hacker News but just for Londoners

8 points| hughhopkins | 13 years ago |sonews.co.uk | reply

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[+] brackin|13 years ago|reply
I agree on the branding (doesn't sound like its about London startups) but having seen this site for a couple of weeks now there is a nice little community there. It makes sense to create a subreddit or site for London startups as there's a big community that doesn't really have a (non-facebook) forum to communicate and share.
[+] hughhopkins|13 years ago|reply
Thanks! it is work in progress so a few upgrades should be coming along as well
[+] lotsofcows|13 years ago|reply
Insular.

Although some sense of geographical location (configurable) next to names would actually be quite nice.

lotsofcows (portsmouth, uk) 1 hour ago

[+] hughhopkins|13 years ago|reply
yeah, It's starting hyperlocal because that seems the easiest route. That would be good and I'll look into it
[+] hughhopkins|13 years ago|reply
Feel free to fire me any questions about it here. Also, it is based on Telescope by Sacha Greif and Tom Coleman - which is built in MeteorJS.
[+] jamesjgill|13 years ago|reply
Nicely designed and really handy to cut through the clutter to get to relevant London based stories.
[+] maximem|13 years ago|reply
Why would you do that?
[+] hughhopkins|13 years ago|reply
Because HN is very SF centric and I know the London comunity will really benefit. Quite simply really. Not trying to create a $B company just something good for the area