Join the ##solofounders channel on freenode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991799

by dugmartin • 16 years ago

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I just created the ##solofounders channel on freenode. As the channel name suggests it's for startups or ongoing businesses created by a single founder. Stop by if you are interested.

swombat2• 16 years ago

Why would you go there instead of #startups? Are solo startups so different that they cannot benefit from the advice of non-solo startuppers?

cemerick2• 16 years ago

When you're a solo founder, the weighting of the same issues would appear to be significantly different -- or, at least that's my impression when talking to partnered founders.

There's also the sometimes-existential question of being solo, which, yes, brings a whole new set of issues to the table around working habits, motivation, funding, etc.

swombat2• 16 years ago

Come to #startups, we've got plenty of solo founders too :-)

brennannovak• 16 years ago

I'm there... doesn't seem the creator is actually there. Hrm!

cemerick2• 16 years ago

dougmartin on irc is dugmartin here. Make fun of him for the digg reference! ;-)

dugmartin2• 16 years ago

Make sure you use double hashes - ##solofounders

I wanted to stay within the freenode etiquette so I used ##solofounders since its not really a project.

axod• 16 years ago

The alternative is to go on a different IRC network more friendly and less rules based...

Freenode ironically isn't very free.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

The differences are smaller than the common elements, and besides that, any chatroom that you try to set up around a subset of a slightly larger one will always suffer from the empty room effect.

It takes a significant number of people to kickstart a new community and even though I'm right in the middle of the target audience I'll stick to #start-ups simply because you can only monitor so many inputs.

The same happens to sites that try to run alternatives to HN for some subset of the information (or even for a different kind of information), they invariably have a huge peak on day one and then they die within a few days, months at best.

The one exception eventually died because the owner didn't put in the effort to keep it going.

Starting a new community is not as easy as announcing one.

dugmartin2• 16 years ago

It probably will peak and then level off, but hopefully it will allow folks to make some connections and when it does level off the s/n ratio will be higher than a crowded channel. Right now there are 25 folks in the room and the conversation is already pretty interesting.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

Tell me in three weeks!

DTrejo• 16 years ago

Link to solofounders:http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23%23solofounders&...

Link to startups: http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23startups&uio=d4

(For those who've never used IRC)

tzm• 16 years ago

Any ##solofounders or #startups meetups in NYC or WNY areas?

Join the ##solofounders channel on freenode

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