Ask HN: Whats the HN equivalent for Europe?

[Jedi_Vik]

I'm trying to start/create relationships with individuals (Dev's and Hackers alike) within Europe (Eastern Europe mainly).

Anyone have any cool spots or locations that I should reach out to? I'm looking into Croatia, Serbia, Germany, and Romania specifically.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[qompiler]

http://zkombinator.com/

[randomchars → qompiler]

Is this real or just a weird joke?

[krapp → randomchars]

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[randomchars → krapp]

I didn't even think to check for comments in the page source, thank you.

But it's far from obvious. One of the cloned services listed is Pinterest. Have a look at these [1][2][3] sites. All three of them were made by Hungarian companies and [1] was financed by one of the largest media companies in the country[4]. So something like Zkombinator is not that big a step from what is already going on.

[1]: http://www.bigin.hu/

[2]: http://tuzd.be/

[3]: http://kirak.at/

[4]: http://www.sanomamedia.hu/sanobp_english/

[krapp → randomchars]

Sure, but still calling it "Zkombinator" is a bit on the nose.

[listaware → krapp]

On german keyboards the Y & Z are swapped around, so I guess that's where that bit came from. And kombinator is the German for combinator I guess.

[Jedi_Vik → krapp]

I agree. It threw me in for a bit of a curve-ball.

[Peroni]

It used to be http://hackful.eu/ but that appears to be down.

[Jedi_Vik → Peroni]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[lifeisstillgood]

As a European, I say HN is the European equivalent of HN.

Now there may not be a French language or German language equivalent, but then again there are a lot of non native English speakers in here anyway