Hacker News with Generative AI: Community Building

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com)
18 months ago, I wasn’t planning on spending more time hanging out with my neighbors than with friends I’d known for decades. It started with a simple goal: my husband Tyler and I wanted that sense of community that feels like it’s only possible in the suburbs, but we believed we could achieve this while living in San Francisco. We brainstormed: should we make cookies and knock on doors? Should we invite neighbors over for dinner?
Community Building, Neighborhood, San Francisco
1648 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 497 comments
Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community (cursor.directory)
Community Building, Web Development, SaaS, Growth Hacking
50 points by pontusabb 16 days ago | 21 comments
I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023) (localfirstweb.dev)
The flap of a butterfly’s wings on one continent, so the story goes, can cause a tornado a year later in another. Here’s my story of how something like that can happen on the web too.
Web Development, Community Building, User Experience, Web Design
226 points by mooreds 51 days ago | 132 comments
5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web (bhupesh.me)
I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successes & some tips for folks thinking to build a community of their own or well for folks who are just interested in what went behind the scenes.
Community Building, India, Software Development, Reddit
7 points by bhupesh 60 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online (t4t.social)
Transgender Issues, Community Building, Social Media
484 points by t4t 71 days ago | 344 comments
Read CV Acquired by Perplexity (read.cv)
Since 2021 we've had the immense privilege of putting our whole selves into building and growing Read.cv. We're tremendously proud of what we've accomplished, and the wonderful community that has blossomed around it.
Startup Acquisitions, AI, Language Models, Community Building
19 points by camjw 76 days ago | 12 comments
Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025 (ycombinator.com)
Hi guys! I am considering of creating a new forum for a little fun, by hosting a current open-source forum software and making some changes and tweaks . An independent place on the Internet without any outside influence or interference.
Forum Software, Open Source, Community Building
27 points by Jsttan 99 days ago | 43 comments
Ask HN: How to Market Before Building? (ycombinator.com)
Has anyone here did something like this with 0 audience ? Because it seems that this only works when you have like a 10K followers or a 5K community members
Marketing, Startups, Community Building
10 points by izwasm 121 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: Odd Circles – A Meetup.com alternative (oddcircles.com) (oddcircles.com)
Replace your entire tech stack — from Meetup to Mailchimp — with one powerful platform. Community building, event hosting, email, courses, lead magnets, digital products, monetisation tools and much more, all in one place.
Community Building, Event Hosting, SaaS, Software, Alternatives
5 points by harshalone 127 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN!<p>I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city.<p>How it works?<p>Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329<p>1. Fill the form: username, city+country<p>2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description.<p>3.
Community Building, Hacker News, Social Networking
768 points by sirobg 202 days ago | 372 comments
Ditto: Build Your Community on Nostr (soapbox.pub)
Nostr, Community Building
12 points by srid 264 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: How can we open-source a 7 year old SaaS codebase and build a community? (ycombinator.com)
Open Source, Community Building, SaaS, Software Development
106 points by MarkinK 308 days ago | 80 comments