Ask HN: College startups?

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by martinshen • 15 years ago

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I know that there are a lot of techie college start ups but there doesn't seem to be a community for them anymore. I remember back in the day we had collegemogul.com and now every so often I see an article or two about college kids on TC.. Is that it for coverage on dorm room startups?

wesleyzhao• 15 years ago

I always felt that HN was a community for the dorm room startup but I may be mistaken about the average age of trolls on this site. I am personally in college and would like to know if my assumption was wrong about the average HN'er.

matmann2001• 15 years ago

It's funny you mention this. I'm a fledgling programmer, early into my college career. For one of my first projects ever, I'm beginning to write a web application for college students to share and collaborate on ideas, hopefully helping people creating startups.

Just this past weekend, I taught myself enough Ruby (on Rails) to get the basic application down. My next steps involve designing a nice UI and to add more connection features.

I don't really have enough done to post anything here yet, but if there's something you'd really like to see in a web app like this, your advice is most welcome.

keiferski• 15 years ago

College student here, working on a startup. I've actually gone part-time on classes to work on my project full-time.

wjr• 15 years ago

Current student in NYC, building a bootstrapped SaaS application.

Would love to see more stuff coming from students on HN, rather then reading for x time about funding, viral social mashup pseudo startups and top 10 lists... of things to do and not to do...

martinshen2• 15 years ago

Sounds good everyone.. We should get a separate section or mailing list going. I'm based in Boston if anyone wants to help set up a meetup around there or NYC next next weekend Feb 25th-28th

robee• 15 years ago

Velocity residence at the University of Waterloo is basically for the purpose of dorm room startups.

http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca

martinshen2• 15 years ago

Awesome. I've actually never heard of this despite being a Toronto resident (or ex-resident)

dmazin• 15 years ago

College sophomore here working on a SaaS web app. I always wonder where the other people my age are.

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