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> Hanging out with other humans is good – and if you can’t find a community… you can always build your own. I did just that, and built https://wonderful.dev ht

• altmanaltman 9mo ago
  They literally said that online communities wasn't what they were talking about though. > And this was when I finally realised something that should have been obvious. I had a small group of close friends who were spread across the country. I had a wider group of friends and acquaintances who I’d talk to online. > But what I lacked was a community.
  • welder 9mo ago
    If I have an in-person community that's non-tech it's enough for me to only have an online tech community. That's how it was for me growing up, and it would be great to have that again.
    • altmanaltman 9mo ago
      yeah but it isn't about what you want. Ofc you like the idea, you built the damn thing. But the author of the post (which you replied/advertised to) explictly talked against this kind of thing. It's like a Budweiser ad on a mosque
• didgeoridoo 9mo ago
  Meta commentary: there’s something interesting in the fact that my first instinct was “great another piece of vibeslop”, which inverted completely to genuine interest when I recognized your username. The “personal brand” and track record might be getting even more important now that the bar to building something has dropped to the floor.
• tapete3 9mo ago
  I don't think you will attract any competent "devs" with a platform that is locked behind a GitHub 2FA login. I am not going to create an account at Microsoft to use your platform.