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A Hacker News but just for Londoners (sonews.co.uk)
8 points by hughhopkins 4774 days ago
5 comments
brackin 4774 days ago
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.
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hughhopkins 4774 days ago
Thanks! it is work in progress so a few upgrades should be coming along as well
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lotsofcows 4774 days ago
Insular.

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

lotsofcows (portsmouth, uk) 1 hour ago

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hughhopkins 4774 days ago
yeah, It's starting hyperlocal because that seems the easiest route. That would be good and I'll look into it
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hughhopkins 4774 days ago
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.
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jamesjgill 4774 days ago
Nicely designed and really handy to cut through the clutter to get to relevant London based stories.
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hughhopkins 4774 days ago
Cheers James, means a lot
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maximem 4774 days ago
Why would you do that?
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hughhopkins 4774 days ago
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
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