Well, i am a developer, i know a few languages including Java,C++, C#, Groovy, and a few other scripting languages.
I had a different entrepreneur tech idea in my mind at the time i posted this question here. Now since there's no place on the web to find coder-hippies ;) or business/marketing entrepreneur people, why not create a place for all those entrepreneur students who are looking to connect to one another. I don't mind anyone stealing this idea and working on it, but if there's anyone who would like to join me in creating this application please buzz me.
I am living in a Asian country, and geographical location would not effect a startup.
Except for people even earlier in the chain. I'm talking no investors (in any official capacity) or anything formal/markety-
Just guys and ladies that want to find people that want to flesh out their ideas through exposure to like-minded people.
I can envision forums with a geography element that is specifically oriented towards orchestrating get-togethers. Or even better, how about using Elgg to make open networks to connect people by interest?
http://www.elgg.org/about.php
That would be cool.
My internet is down outside of work, so I'm limited to my phone currently, which I'm glad to have, but loathe to use for extended typing. Thoughts?
Whatever this is, you want it to create a "culture of intent" that clearly demonstrates to its users that the goal is community interaction, cooperation, and friendly optimism.
We need someplace a little more personal and under-the-radar where we can enter the software development scene, such as it is, so that we can share our early education with smart people near to us, so we can combine the best elements of "hometown familiarity" with global, futuristic scope and stage.
The division if labor has brought us here to this place on YC together- it's simply in our interest to find find each other near where we sit- at home. It makes sense to combine intellects and personalities to help guide the way to the many big-time plans and creations.
I want a hometown launching pad for getting to San Francisco Bay, custom built to show me the local people reading this that want the same challenging but totally do-able map to creating world-wide success in the technology world.
I'm looking at this world, and it's in need of an on-ramp to all the talent percolating in every small town on the map. Imagine the state of science today, the internet being one lense of which, where every truly interested person within 1000 miles of you were able to go to the same places to feed their computing human culture- face to face, instead of looking at everyone in the internet world as a collection of digital sentences, with the 3/5 conveyance of intent delivered, which is the average ability of a written sentence to say exactly what was intended. The other 2/5 is body language and eye contact.
We should make real efforts to find each other and create from our current homes, until we have a stable of nailed-down implementations we can confidently present to the pro's.We have the neighbors nearby that want to work together, with smart, cool, fun, and dedicated people. We each try our best to be that way ourselves.
I see so many of you here- I wish I could meet you and talk about these amazing, exciting advances in our technology and abilies to change the world in incredibly powerful ways. I think we should make a network that exists for this purpose.
I want to work with you people. We all want the help from our friends, so we should put these friends of common interest together. Plus, there's beer, social commentary, new information, and connection to the bigger world. That would be cool.
Would you agree?
yeah, sounds good to me. i looked at elgg as well, i believe one should create this social engine from scratch. It could be innovative and who knows, we might be able to make it better than elgg it self. your thoughts?
Perhaps ground-up would be effective in the long run, but my imagination wonders if an index of pre-populated mini-networks all rooted on one "jump page" might work better in the near-term.
At least that's the functionality I imagine- the index could be similar to a traditional forum layout, where the categorized interests lead you to Elgg-like (again, only as an example) focus- and/or geographically-specific group of people. They would of course be fully capable of interconnecting between other networks throughout the site, but the goal here is sharing among people in your local group of like-minded people.
It's fun to think of the possibilities here- there are many. Back to you-
PS- just saw this and thought it might apply
http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-...
Thank you for your replies. I am talking about Amputees (who doesn't have limbs to use a keyboard or mouse) or Blind (who are unable to read). It's highly unlucky that Facebook or any other social network will read my post and make the suitable changes to there products.
The reason why i suggested to have a different social network for disables is that, it's easy to maintain the application, add features and improvements to it (that would suit disables). If we are to integrate our disable friendly social media with Facebook or any other Social Network, we will definitely come across issues while trying to integrate there social network to our application. Every time Facebook changes a functionality or adds a feature, we have to constantly keep updating/modifying our application to adhere to it. So having our own social media created will definitely overcome this problem.
Recently i created an application that could send a tweet or an email by patients who has neuro-muscular disorders (total-paralysis). what i found is that, social media could definitely make an impact of the lives of disables as they could share there day-to-day hardships and triumphs in life. However, i agree with the two of you that creating a separate social network for disables would separate able users with disables, so i hope existing organizations who are involved in social media would come forward and address this issue.
I had a different entrepreneur tech idea in my mind at the time i posted this question here. Now since there's no place on the web to find coder-hippies ;) or business/marketing entrepreneur people, why not create a place for all those entrepreneur students who are looking to connect to one another. I don't mind anyone stealing this idea and working on it, but if there's anyone who would like to join me in creating this application please buzz me.
I am living in a Asian country, and geographical location would not effect a startup.
let me know, what you think :)