Ask HN: Aussies, put your hands up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228778

by froo • 16 years ago

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If you're an Aussie and HN user, say hi!

froo• 16 years ago

Perth here, contact details in my profile if you want to chat about whatever

dp79• 16 years ago

Hi! Brisbane here

nailer• 16 years ago

London here.

hungrybeast• 16 years ago

Melbourne here!

intranation• 16 years ago

Hello, London (originally Sydney) here.

candeira• 16 years ago

Melbourne (originally Madrid) here.

niko1• 16 years ago

Just moved to Brisbane to start a startup.

thenbrent3• 16 years ago

Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here?

At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the way)

dmharrison4• 16 years ago

I would wager it's probably Sydney, but then again I don't think any Australian town is the clear winner.

Canberra had a lot of enterprise focussed software startups which didn't get much notice; but I think compared to the US equivalents, alot of Australian companies fly under the radar.

My belief is if you're starting in the Aus rather than the US it doesn't really matter which city you're in as long as it's got a reasonable feeding uni. Having worked and recruited with US and Aus staff I definitely think Australian software engineers are some of the best and typically suitably pragmatic for software startups. (Until they fully roll out the US style of generalist and masters, aka uni melbourne approach, but I guess we'll see)

inevaexisted• 16 years ago

Sydney!! Hi... looking for an internship/grad position(final year).

zacspitzer• 16 years ago

melbourne!

joshd• 16 years ago

London (by way of Brisbane).

codemoran• 16 years ago

* codemoran puts his hand up <codemoran> sydney here.

Evgeny• 16 years ago

Melbourne. No plans on startups though.

pedrogrande• 16 years ago

Hi! I'm a lurker from Bondi. Chasing the dream.

samh• 16 years ago

Canberra here. (I'm not Julia Gillard, but sometimes on Call of Duty servers I pretend to be).

Kreels• 16 years ago

Sydney North West. Lisp Hacker. Lurking.

GVRV• 16 years ago

Melbourne. Student at Monash University. From India.

thejay• 16 years ago

Sydney lower north shore. Recharging for another startup.

jgoosdh• 16 years ago

Hi! Just north of Sydney.I love AbstractServiceLoaderBasedFactoryBean's (aka a Java hacker)

zengyro• 16 years ago

do expats count? Melbournian living in Scotland.

pmccool• 16 years ago

Hi! Brisbane here.

shib71• 16 years ago

Sydney

ajt• 16 years ago

Brisneyland

abdulla• 16 years ago

Melbourne here.

dmharrison4• 16 years ago

Brisbane, hi!

Recently moved to Brisbane from Canberra and starting knowtu. Looking at ilab and will make it to opencoffee sometime. Are there any good Brisbane entrepreneurship/tech groups someone could recommend? HN meetup?

JacobAldridge2• 16 years ago

Another Brisbane boy here. HN meetup would be great, since we seem to have a few locals. I can probably organise a casual venue one evening in the Valley? Maybe chip in for some drinks or dinner?

dmharrison4• 16 years ago

I'd definitely be in.

thenbrent3• 16 years ago

I'd be keen for that too.

There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/

spohlenz• 16 years ago

Currently living in Clare but I'm in town often enough to say I'm from Adelaide.

dreamtime• 16 years ago

melbourne

gbc• 16 years ago

Canberra. Rails. Hi.

ryszard99• 16 years ago

sydney!!

Aidan• 16 years ago

Melbourne!

benkant• 16 years ago

Perth repping.

latent• 16 years ago

Brisbane developer, into govt research mostly. Involved with humbug (unix/linux), brispy (python), dorkbot (arts/eletronics), the edge (creative/design/tech), hackerspace (engineering/electronics), linux.conf.au and other things most likely :)

cheers,

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