Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

Article summary

The author created a website, meet.hn, to connect Hacker News users in their cities. The site allows users to add themselves to a map by filling out a form and copying a generated text into their HN description. The author's goal is to meet other HN members in their city, Toulouse, France. The project is open source and has a Twitter page.

Main themes

• Hacker News community
• Meetup platform
• Geolocation
• User interface
• Open source
• Social networking

What commenters say

• The site's city and country search functionality may not work well for cities with duplicate names in different states or countries.
• Some users suggest improving the location selector with autocomplete or a dropdown menu to make it easier to find and select cities.
• The site's requirement for users to copy and paste a generated text into their HN description can be confusing and may not work for all users.
• The use of city and country names may not be the best approach for identifying locations, and alternative methods such as zip codes or geographic coordinates could be more effective.
• The site's design and functionality can be improved with features such as Mastodon support, auto-complete on the location selector, and the ability to add personal webpages and email addresses.
• Some users appreciate the site's goal of connecting HN members in their cities and see it as a useful tool for networking and meeting like-minded individuals.
• The site's handling of diacritics and non-ASCII characters in city names may be problematic and needs to be addressed.
• The HN API's delay in updating user information can cause issues with the site's functionality and user experience.