First NY Tech Meetup
We went to our first NY Tech Meetup a few days ago and had the chance to present JobThread to a great crowd. It was also interesting as Indeed was there and we were to present right after them. We already send our jobs to Indeed and they've delivered great search results to our users' sites and job postings, so it was a very easy transition.
It was also our first presentation in front of an audience of more than just a few people... and, well, I'm not a great public speaker, so there were a bit of first time jitters there. In the end the "gong show, show-and-tell" format saved us as people were able to just jump in with questions and I didn't have to worry about making a presentation as much.
Probably the most memorable presentation was given by one of the engineers at Meetup for a project called: DoubleFeature Finder, which is described as a way to: "Find local showtimes scheduled back-to-back and spend the entire day at the movies!" The tagline somewhat sums up the tongue-in-cheek quality of the site:
Also, it was cool to meet Joel Spolsky... actually, we never really met, though he did give a presentation about Copilot right after us and showed a clip from a video documenting the summer internship program that built it.
We did meet one of the guys behind SuprGlu though, which is a very nifty site.
We'll most likely keep going to the NY Tech Meetups, so if you're in NY and looking for an interesting group, I'd give it a try.
It was also our first presentation in front of an audience of more than just a few people... and, well, I'm not a great public speaker, so there were a bit of first time jitters there. In the end the "gong show, show-and-tell" format saved us as people were able to just jump in with questions and I didn't have to worry about making a presentation as much.
Probably the most memorable presentation was given by one of the engineers at Meetup for a project called: DoubleFeature Finder, which is described as a way to: "Find local showtimes scheduled back-to-back and spend the entire day at the movies!" The tagline somewhat sums up the tongue-in-cheek quality of the site:
"Never sneak into movies!"
Also, it was cool to meet Joel Spolsky... actually, we never really met, though he did give a presentation about Copilot right after us and showed a clip from a video documenting the summer internship program that built it.
We did meet one of the guys behind SuprGlu though, which is a very nifty site.
We'll most likely keep going to the NY Tech Meetups, so if you're in NY and looking for an interesting group, I'd give it a try.
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