Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack

The domain is dumb, Slack&#x27;s hash logo is a nod to IRC and not Twitter. It doesn&#x27;t represent tagging, it represents IRC channels.<p>Edit: hey hastagstartup.co downvote brigade, hashstartup.co is still available. So is hashstartups.com which is even better.

The signup has really bad UX. Can&#x27;t even use it.<p>There is a secret (or you will find it later):<p>- You have to pay 10$;<p>- or write a &quot;great motivation&quot;;<p>to sign up.

Speaking of #startups, that channel is free to join on irc.freenode.net.

For those who are wondering the slick UI for the sign up was made with Typeform out of Barcelona :)

I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it&#x27;s tricky to tell if that&#x27;s really the case (I don&#x27;t believe there&#x27;s bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn&#x27;t inspire confidence).

The concept of a global community of startup people is nice, but why do I have to use your platform to be a part of it?<p>That question felt unanswered to me after 60 seconds on the landing page.

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Pretty cool! I just signed up. I think its an interesting line of dialog to have going in the background, and am hopeful it will make the path to starting and running a startup clearer for me.<p>The signup process is kinda neat, but some of the questions made me go &quot;errr...&quot;<p>edit: i see they(you?) use typeform for the signup form; never heard of them before, but pretty neat!

We&#x27;ve been making something during our internal hackathon with a similar goal in mind, but perhaps a different approach. Hopefully I can get some feedbacks: <a href="http://jiver.co/startup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jiver.co&#x2F;startup</a><p>It&#x27;s a rough alpha (desktop web-only, mobile support in January).

Why you always use weird slack for private community chats? It has really slow performance everywhere.

I see that you ask for 10 euro donations. What is the money used for?