I intend to have as many HN users as possible contribute. I switched the legend containing "Founder" with "Users" to make the markers more versatile. I apologize for the confusion.
> My aim is to map out all of the founders in the Hacker News community, distinguished by four qualities: Tech founder, business founder, VC/investor, or a mix of the previous three.
That's going to scare away a few people. Change the first two appearances of "founder" to "user"?
It seemed non-obvious to me I'm also meant to activate my account for it to be visible on the map (I just noticed it wasn't showing so searched the site until I found I was unactivated).
I guess they're complimentary. These maps are awesome for people like me who live in places where it's quite rare to meet fellow founders. Thanks, guys!
Agreed, a more differentiable color scheme would be nicer. In the next couple days I will reach out to a couple designers seeing if they can emulate the "Earth at Night" poster that I mentioned in my note.
I can certainly add "Developer", I was just looking to keep it as simple as possible with 4 options by filing developers under "tech". Would you still like the options updated?
Not all who are in tech are founders. Also, I know a couple people who would probably at first try to write themselves in as "Student." Maybe that fits best alongside non-founder techs?
As a personal data point, I don't think I would mark myself as student even though I am currently a student. (Open question) What do you think differentiates a "student developer" from a "student?"
Depending on context, specificity (some students may not be student developers) or nothing. In this particular context, likely nothing. At the time I posted, the only options were "[Business|Tech] Founder" and "VC/Investor." I have only ever encountered one student who was also a founder.
What do you spend more time on? Because, as someone doing both half-time, there isn't enough time to be a full time dev (40+ hours/week) and a full-time student (4-5 classes, 3-4 hours/per class in the classroom, maybe half of that outside).
Yes, there is enough time. I currently do 35 hours as a dev and 15-20 as a student, and I think I could do 5 more hours of development. My social life would probably suffer a lot, though, as I'd have to work or study more on weekends.
And I have no idea whether I should say I'm a developer or a student whenever I have to choose. I tend to go with student because finishing college is my priority, but it's still an annoying question.
If "student" only takes you 15-20 hours per week, most probably wouldn't consider it "full-time." When I was in undergrad, spending 15-20 hours per week on school would mean about 0 hours spent studying.
Great idea. But please add options for others. It'd be great to meet like-minded folk. (I seem to be alone in the UK at the moment, which is a little worrying.)
Thanks! What options did you have in mind? To meet like-minded users in the UK, I think stringraycharles provided a great resource. http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html
Is anyone else giggling like a small girl at the way HN'ers, who are usually privacy nuts (see: any discussion about Facebook), are freely giving away their exact location?
Who says these are their exact location? I'm OK with giving away my city as dedicated searching will let you figure it out anyhow, but I didn't give my address. Dedicated searching will give you a decent chance at that anyhow (though I've moved around a lot in the past few years and I've noticed online address databases are full of defunct entries).
