The more consequential the failure, the more rigorous the software engineering. afaik Space/Rocketry/Medicine consists of rigorous engineering, because the failure modes end in death.
Isn't everything already virtualized? Books, encyclopedias, movies, music; you can even recreate your living room/office setup in VR (which apparently works well enough for some people). What's left?
Peter Thiel said winners go to 4 places in the US depending on their profession: LA, SF, DC, NY. Position yourself to get a job at SF tech company. This may
include internships, leetcode grinding, majoring in CS, possibly a masters degree. $150k is insufficient for a health-care startup, the compliance and the lawyers will be in the millions.
If you distributed the $19 to the people who did actually show up... you would actually get people to show up... maybe there's some kind of business plan embedded in your comment.
Something along the lines of a tweet 'will be programming @starbucks for next 4 hours' ... then if people are in the mood they can spontanously join up. I think this would help bootstrap the more scheduled meetups.
If I understand your suggestion correctly, it would require people to already be following the account that's tweeting this.
Also, it would probably require cross posting on Bluesky/Mastodon as from my experience with meet.hn user base, a significant % is not on X anymore (?).
Oh so you mean that users would post anywhere (Bluesky, X, Mastodon, ...) and I would track these posts and then display them in the appropriate location on meet.hn?
Sounds pretty good! If that's not what you meant, please correct me.
This is the best comment about meetups of all time
One thing I found strange about SF is that I never found a group that would do the weekly hang.
The weekly hang is a socially porous experience, it has a fixed location and fixed start time but everything else is improvised. Different people could dip in and out, people felt free to bring new friends, people they just started dating, friends from out of town etc. Some people came once and never again, others become regulars. The hallmark of a great weekly hang is that the entire initial cohort gets replaced but the weekly hang still persists.
It's a commitment in time that "busy professionals" ostensibly had no time for which is why I think it was so unpopular in SF but it really killed a big part of the vibe of the city for me.
That's more or less the idea, the actual mechanism is an implementation detail. You could host the messages yourself, or instruct people to update their hn_bio or RSS feed which will sometimes have messages like this :
