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Osten Wiecen Japleft a comment
It's really interesting to see networking come up so consistently as the top expectation here. Having been to many events, I've noticed the biggest gap isn't the desire to connect, but the structure to do it meaningfully—especially in a room of 70 people where you can't meet everyone. Discord is a great start for pre-event mingling and announcements, but as @leah_madden hinted, a tool designed...
When you attend a tech event, what do you usually expect?
Osten Wiecen Japstarted a discussion
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🎯 The Problem As a developer who loves to travel, I always hit the same wall: "How do I find the real tech community here?" Scrolling through generic event sites and impersonal LinkedIn feeds never led to the genuine connections and exciting hackathons I was looking for. The discovery process was broken. 💡 Our Solution So I built Hackamaps. It’s a live map that visualizes your local tech...
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Osten Wiecen Japleft a comment
I love going to hackathons — meeting new people, building cool stuff, and using it as an excuse to travel. Every time I joined one in a new country, it gave me a wider perspective and pushed me to grow. That’s why I built HackaMaps: to make discovering hackathons across countries (and continents!) way easier. I wanted a single place where anyone could explore events, plan trips, and jump into...
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