Primary link: http://hackerscoffee.org<p>I thought Coder’s Coffee (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010355) was a great idea but disagreed with a few aspects of its execution (registration solely via linkedin, iOS app only, manual approval process, brittle: crashed every time I used it on my phone). I noticed the app had stopped working entirely last week, and went to the site (http://www.coderscoffee.com) to discover that the project seems to be no more.<p>I re-implemented the concept, minus my grievances, in about 20 free hours I had last week (and also took the opportunity to make a time-lapse video of the development process, something I’d been wanting to do for a long time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlll6SN-Ybk).<p>This is very minimal and rough around the edges design-wise, but it has the critical features I’d been after. Just the features I wanted to make it capable of solving the problem of introducing me to other like-minded developers. I welcome observations/suggestions/improvements.<p>At the very least, you can grab a coffee with me if you’re in New York:<p>http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98722/pub
Looks pretty nice! You have a classic chicken and egg problem...nobody will be active on it until other people are active on it. But with you in NY, me in Chicago, and presumably many HNers in SF it shouldn't be too hard to get a few first meetings going.<p>(And if anyone wants to talk to a young, ignorant hacker who just inherited a startup and works for a second...hit me up! <a href="http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98727/pub" rel="nofollow">http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98727/pub</a>)
Impressive. Hopefully one day I'll be able to whack out a weekend project like this.<p>Thanks for the time-lapse video, was very interesting to see someone else's working perspective especially.