Poll: Where are you from?
USA
412 pointsNorth America (except USA)
83 pointsEurope
261 pointsAsia
90 pointsSouth America
29 pointsAfrica
20 pointsOceania
63 pointsUSA
412 pointsNorth America (except USA)
83 pointsEurope
261 pointsAsia
90 pointsSouth America
29 pointsAfrica
20 pointsOceania
63 points
It's probably too late for this comment to get noticed by anyone, but can I suggest people register with http://www.hackrtrackr.com/ ??
San Francisco now but originally from Philadelphia.
I bet the SF Bay Area probably has the highest concentration of HN readers than any other specific part of the US.
Probably. And then near the new york area next. Good 'ol Silicon (V)alley.
From the Bay Area too. Specifically Fremont. Silicon Valley is amazing for tech advances huh?
I'd love to see a poll of Bay Area versus non Bay Area, although I bet it would be unsurprising.
Massachusetts, USA.... Anyone from New england?
Providence, RI
Yup, in Boston.
Is there a HN meetup in Boston? If not, I'd be happy to organize one.
Boston here to
cambridge
Hartford, CT
Can you put your location in your profile please? It would be great to be able to search for HN denizens by city.
Can you put your location in your profile please?
Done. Minnetonka, Minnesota here. It's interesting to see that you are in Taiwan now. That's where I learned everything I know about being entrepreneurial, which is not yet enough.
Hey, that's the closest so far. I live in southern Scott Co. Minnesota, but I work about 15 min. from Minnetonka.
That's a great idea. I've put mine in.
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Vancouver, BC (previously lived in Czech Republic and Russia)
west coast represent!
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In Toronto right now though.
Howdy neighbour.
I'm in nearby Guelph, Ontario.
I'm in London, Ont.
As am I.
me three!
And I.
Austin, Texas : Live music capital of the world!
Another cool thing to check for is hackers at your school who are on hacker news: http://www.hnDir.com
Pittsburgh.
(Pittsburgh meetup next Saturday night, the 28th, at 9PM at Church Brew Works in Lawrenceville. Email me for details and to be informed of future meetups)
Pittsburgh! :) I'd email you but I already belong to the mail lists for Dorkbot, Refresh, Devhouse, etc and don't want duped emails. :)
Not much of a mailing list here... basically every two months or so myself or Ed think that we should probably have a meetup and then we email other people to figure out times that work.
Melbourne, Australia
Hey, me too!
me three
me also and am looking for a startup co-founder.
Hacking in scheme on a web- data- related prototype as outlined on quantblog.wordpress.com.
Count me in as #5.
Frequent reader, less frequent poster and #6 from Melbourne (Geelong to be exact!)
Just got back from Melbourne, (Toronto, ON), loved it and will return, and I just kept thinking 'If there was a start-up culture in Melbourne, I'd move there in 2 seconds!' - and now there are 6 responding to the thread, :)
'If there was a start-up culture in Melbourne, I'd move there in 2 seconds!'
Whilst it's not huge, it's certainly growing. Silicon Beach is a community pushing technology innovation in Melbourne (and the rest of Australia). You can read a little more about it here: http://melbourne.siliconbeachaustralia.org/about-2/ and here: http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/silicon-beach-melbourne/
Count me in as well. Good to see some people here I know on Twitter, but wasn't aware of on HN.
Melbourne / Geelong here too! I was impressed when I put the SB blog post above together too. There is a nice range of events happening, and a good amount of code happening too :)
I am surprised to see such a strong Melbournian contingent. Maybe the rain keeps you indoors, nothing to do but program? ;)
Sydney here, although going back to Tokyo for summer. (Reference for Melbourne residents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer)
Brisbane, Australia.
I'm in SF, but my sister lives on the Bellarine Peninsula. I've spent about 6 weeks in Australia and love it. If anyone has info about startups hiring in Melbourne or Geelong I'd love to hear about them.
You're in SF and you want to move to Melbourne for a startup? That's the inverse of what I always hear about... ;)
I've been here doing startup type work for ages. Wouldn't mind spending some time down under.
Ditto.
Speaking of Melbourne, how's the weather? Nevermind I'll ask again in 5 minutes when it has changed!
Perth, Australia here.
Perth as well!
Another for Perth
Greetings from Ulverstone, Tasmania. Latitude: 41° 8' 60 S. Anyone further south? Dunedin? Hobart? Antarctica?
NYC anyone?
NYC.
Right here, too.
NYC seems to be an attractor to tech. Maybe it's Pecha Kucha. Or maybe a very well attended Ignite. Tech Meet-up anyone?
Or it could be Williamsburg... and the creatives it attracts.
Close to NYC: Long Island.
next to stony brook too, contact me - xtac@ymail.com
I'm from Nassau, but up near Rochester for college. If that counts as being on Long Island.
right here too.
In case anyone here isn't already on it, there is a mailing list for HN readers in the NYC area:
http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc
Traffic is basically non-existent, but it's useful to be subscribed because we use it to organize meetups every few months.
Elhmhurst, Queens
park slope here
also: http://hackrtrackr.com/
New York, NY
Murray Hill area. Open to meetups and beers. Contact in profile.
Manhattan here. I love the energy. It's great for inspiration!
Astoria, Queens
I clicked on USA as I am located in the Bay Area, but I am from India (had come here for BS in 2001) ... I would consider myself International, unless you meant where the most readers are physically located/residing ?
Bournemouth, England ... about 30min drive from where PG originates from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham
Bangalore, India
Kharagpur, India :)
Cochin, India
New Delhi, India
Delhi!
Delhi!!
Bangalore!
Chennai, India
Manish,
LOL, me to from Bangalore. Where do u live? Any luck we can meet at Barcamps or any hacker event?
And any hacker events in bangalore other than devcamp and barcamp? Yahoo hackday is once in 2yrs so thats out of my "regular events" list.
Pune,India
Pune :), India
me four ! moved recently. blore -> pune
Mumbai, India
Moscow, Russia. That's why I upvoted both Europe and Asia.
Well, that's a decent number of samples - as of right now, 323 yanks, 324 non-yanks. Even taking into account timezone and foreigners-eager-to-represent-their-country selection bias, that's pretty surprising.
So according to this profoundly unscientific and unrepresentative poll, about half the world's (english speaking, community-seeking) startup talent is concentrated in the USA, and about half everywhere else. Interesting.
Copenhagen, Denmark
same here
anyone else from Copenhagen want to meet send me a mail.
:-)
People's Republic of Oregon
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal (francophone) here
Me too =), In Sherbrooke for the moment
Do you think it would be better to add an entirely separate category for San Francisco and area? I suspect that while they're not as overrepresented as some may think, there may be a sizable number that could be broken from the US.
Portugal (Europe)
Portugal as well, Porto
Lisboa
New Zealand
Big it up for the Kiwis.
I'm from New Zealand as well.
I'm from New Zealand too. I'm in Taiwan now though.
Auckland, New Zealand here.
Waiuku, New Zealand. Bonus points if you know where it is...
Christchurch, NZ. How does "Oceania" differ from "Australasia", by the way?
OK, someone else from Spain? I live in Madrid, though I'm andaluz. Hola hola...
Yep! I'm from Barcelona, Spain :)
Bangalore, India
Hey buddy! Nice to see another banglorean!
One more from bangalore. Go Bangalore. :-)
One More!
Seattle
I am sure here is only me from Baku, AZERBAIJAN. :D It is eastern Europe
Moscow, Russia
Nice to see a few from India. We're in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
Keeping the midwest startup scene alive in Quad Cities, Iowa.
Representing the 309! Not there now, but grew up in Rock Island... many moons ago!
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bangkok, Thailand. just moved from Burbank, CA. Kuala Lumpur is where I would like to do my start-up. It's nice meeting you.
Perak, Malaysia. Now, doing startup in US.
New Jersey (though 26 miles from the city is close enough I should have just conceded to the NYC crowd) originally.
Currently - Philadelphia. Hence the nickname.
Think I may be the only South Carolina HN member lol
I live in Central Japan. (Originally from Chicago.)
東京 Tokyo, Japan
Geneva, Switzerland
Yverdon area, Switzerland
Zürich, Switzerland
Basel, Switzerland. Sometimes.
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Eindhoven/Den Bosch > Enschede
Lima, Peru
great, i was working to raise money (for a little while at least) to send olpc's to some of the more rural areas in lima. i'm pervian as well(%).
what's the technology scene there like? it'd be interesting to bridge my work between here (sf) and lima. pico alto is an astounding beach.
We are pretty behind, technology wise. We don't have iPhones in vending machines, they are a little expensive here (the iPhones). Some industries use machines more than 20 years old. The only startup product used here is Facebook. But Lima isn't bad, in the more rural areas, you'd be lucky to see a car that isn't falling apart. There's probably 20 guys total with internet connection.
Finland
Oceania seems high - I presume that means Australia, NZ, Hawaii??, other pacific islands?
Scotland, UK
cool your at st andrews?
I'm currently in leuchars, in case you havent heard about it there is a pretty active tech meetup in edinburgh
http://www.techmeetup.co.uk/
+1 Scotland (Edinburgh)
+1 Scotland (Glasgow area)
Am I the only one from Pakistan?
Tallahassee, Florida. (It's probably too much to hope that anyone on HN is near there)
St. Petersburg, FL here.
St. Petersburg, FL as well. Good to meetcha, I'd thought those html form guys were the only hackers in this Bay Area.
Sweet. I didn't know Wufoo guys are from Tampa. "Bay Area" reminds me of my trip to Silicon Valley in 2007 when everyone asked me if I was from the "bay area" and I kept saying "yes, but the other one, with hurricanes."
Arab world.
London, UK
from london too ! :)
Aussie living in Hong Kong
+1 for Aussie living in Hong Kong
Boston. Would anyone recommend an IP lawyer in or near the city?
Charles Cella
GTC Law Group LLP & Affiliates
ccella -at- gtclawgroup.com
Santa Clarita, CA (Just above LA). Anyone else from around there?
TitleTown U.S.A--Green Bay, WI: shoutout to Milwaukee, "sconsin"
I'm interested in a Silicon Valley vs non-Silicon Valley poll.
Cape Town, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Kansas City area, USA.
(Temporarily) Cape Girardeau, MO.
At least there are a few of us here in flyover country =)
41.285208,-81.098628
Mexico City. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Anyone from Israel?
tel aviv
Israel, currently living in NYC
Southern Thailand (originally from The Netherlands)
Bangkok, Thailand ( originally from Burma(Myanmar))
Australia, anyone?
Some Melburnians listed on this page.
Jakarta, Indonesia
denpasar, Indonesia, hey dude :)
Hey, send me an email please, would love to talk briefly as I am looking for a business partner in indonesia.
Hey, can you send me an email? I import an herb that grows in Indonesia and if I can secure it at less than the prevailing wholesale price me and a wholesaler could make millions of dollars.
Just wait a while, you might be able to buy your, uh, "herb" right over the counter in California soon enough.
Different herb
Million-dollar profits from non-illicit herb arbitrage sounds .. unusual.
Don't suppose you feel like elucidating? Just curious.
I did two years ago here and set off an enormous flame war; while entertaining, it is completely unnecessary. I'd be happy to discuss details via email.
ah the good old days....
Bandung :D
American, but working in Olso, Norway right now.
edited: oops, i think you just added Oceania.
Yeah, I did. Forgot that one, but remembered it on review :-)
From Eugene, Oregon, live in Padova, Italy.
Kathmandu, Nepal. Currently in Louisiana.
Hey! Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay!
Dublin, Ireland
Middle England.
France but I currently live in Malaysia
Colombo, Sri Lanka! But live in Dubai.
My fiancee is Sri Lankan, I'm Arab. Sup cousin! :-)
Gurgaon, India
Pordenone, Italy. Anyone else here?
Paris, France
Marseille, France
Lyon, France :)
We're getting closer... :)
I'm offering a belgian beer to the closest person!
Could you guys add your location on http://hackrtrackr.com/
and maybe update your profiles with skills and projects?
Holmdel, NJ (~1 hour outside NYC)
Am I the only one from Pakistan?
Greek,living in northern Europe
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Any other 'sconsinites?
Darien, Il a suburb of chicago.
crystal lake, il here
Chicago! (Oak Park, Illinois)
Naperville, Illinois :)
Chicago, as well.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Represent!
DC native
I just moved to the DC area last summer.
I'm near DC too. Anyone in the area drop me an email.
Me too. Feel free to say hi.
Belgium, where are you?
Bangalore and Boston :)
Pretoria, South Africa
Prague, Czech Republic
Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Panama City, Panama
Downtown San Jose.
Salt Lake City, UT
Chihuahua, Mexico
Sydney, Australia
Anyone from Ohio?
I'm from Cincinnati, currently living in Rochester, NY for university, but planning to move back this summer....
Originally from Cincinnati, now in Silicon Valley
Columbus, but not from that city, but am from Ohio.
Cebu, Philippines
Manila, Philippines
Makati. Poor Makati. Sa may Market sa C5.
Augusta, GA, USA
Antwerp, Belgium
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Santiago, Chile
Yo soy de Talcahuano, Chile
Europe, Sweden
Cambridge, UK
Torino, Italy
Cork, Ireland
Phoenix, AZ
Middle East
tuscany, italy. Europe rulez
Serbia
Slovenia
Germany
India
Denver, CO
Highlands Ranch, CO
Hong Kong
Liverpool, UK