One of the guest contributors or I write about some of the topics and news specific to real estate industry. For those topics, of course you can discuss them in the comments. But we don’t write about everything, and we never will. That said, wouldn’t it be cool if there was a way to discuss things just amongst this specific community of tech savvy professionals? Any community member could submit a link they find interesting, along with a short comment — and have a discussion thread ensue. hackernewsI know all the coders that read this blog know what Hacker News is. It’s a very, very active community of developers and entrepreneurs started by Paul Graham (founder of YCombinator). Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm in NYC, re-did their site late 2013 as a Hacker News like offering, for more of a business crowd (like me) to discuss startups, investing & fundraising, and technology. You can see it at USV.com. The whole thing is written in Python, and was open sourced. You can view the source code here: https://github.com/unionsquareventures/theconversation Is there appetite in this community to add a Hacker News for Real Estate offering to Geek Estate (using the USV code)? And if so, are you willing to back up your interest with either a bit of money or actual development help? I’m not a developer, nor do I have the money to fund this, but I do think Geek Estate has the right community base to utilize such an offering. So, if you all want to chat and chip in to make it happen, I’m happy to coordinate the project. If not, that’s okay too.