Honestly, feels like a solution in search of a problem. But it's awesome that you've gotten 1700 sign ups!
> I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.
Sounds like you talked to him with the idea of trying to incorporate meet.hn into HN directly. What if you got permission to do a monthly "Meet HN" thread where people can link to their meetups on meet.hn, similar to "Who's Hiring" and "Who's Looking". Seems like it would give you what you want with regards to getting eyes on meet.hn but without any need for technical implementations.
But yeah, while it's a cool idea, forcing the HN aspect is probably going to be a permanent and severe bottleneck. There isn't any real solution to getting this in front of people on HN but not on meet.hn regularly (and speaking as someone who isn't interested, I'd be irate at any change that did do that). I'd encourage you to instead make this a broader meetup solution for people that fall into the HN niche of interests and advertising it more broadly.
> I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.
Sounds like you talked to him with the idea of trying to incorporate meet.hn into HN directly. What if you got permission to do a monthly "Meet HN" thread where people can link to their meetups on meet.hn, similar to "Who's Hiring" and "Who's Looking". Seems like it would give you what you want with regards to getting eyes on meet.hn but without any need for technical implementations.
But yeah, while it's a cool idea, forcing the HN aspect is probably going to be a permanent and severe bottleneck. There isn't any real solution to getting this in front of people on HN but not on meet.hn regularly (and speaking as someone who isn't interested, I'd be irate at any change that did do that). I'd encourage you to instead make this a broader meetup solution for people that fall into the HN niche of interests and advertising it more broadly.