The Indian Hacker Houses were promised to be great and boy did they DELIVER.🎯
Insightful talks from the best, fun side events & some fire projects on display.
Here's a recap of an insane 2 weeks in Bangalore and Mumbai.
this is an appreciation post for
@retiredchaddev
,
- attends Hacker House demo day
- requests intro with 3 teams who presented
- instantly airdrops $5K grant to each
true chad🫡
Who are the top Solana ecosystem contributors in india? 👀
QT this with your proof of contribution and we may give you a $500 stipend to join us at the Solana
@hackerhouses
in BLR 🇮🇳
Shoutout to everyone who stepped out and joined the Ecosystem Call IRL last week.
Incredibly grateful to our hosts who stepped up for their local community.
And drop a W for the unstoppable force that made this possible,
@kashdhanda
Twitter Space Alert 🎙️
We're hosting a Master Class on how you can start building mobile apps on Solana.
Tune in to hear directly from Superteam members who've been there, done that -- and ask them all your Qns.
⏰ 930pm IST, Thursday 18th Jan
Set your reminders below 👇
Finally hosting our 1st Bangalore Supermeet with partners
@Sequoia_India
&
@devfolio
. If you work, invest, or are just looking to get more involved in crypto from 🇮🇳, come join us next week!
Register fast — 150 spots only.
Hackathon 🤝 IRL
We're hosting a hackathon kick-off mixer this Saturday in BLR, join us to:
- find co-founders, teammates, ideas, etc
- get alpha on local prize tracks from Okto & Reclaim
- jam with friends from FBI, Buidlers Tribe & Soonami
Limited spots, RSVP below.
Solana ❤️ India 🇮🇳
You came. You saw. You built.
Thank you — Hacker House Bengaluru was special because of your contributions.
Give some love to the teams who pitched at Demo Day today and see who won! 👇
Scribes might be over but the writing bounties continue to flow 🌊
This deep dive is for anyone interested in ONDC 🤝 Solana.
$1000 in prizes up for grabs.
A 20yr old cyclist from India built Strava Unwrapped, a free website that generates a beautiful year in review video from your activities, but Strava shut it down.
Nearly 1000 people used it before his API access was cut off. After that, many *paying users* of Strava DM'd him
It's Hacker House week!
Some agenda highlights:
- Opening fireside w/
@imsiddshetty
, India Stack 🇮🇳
- Stand-Up by Karunesh Talwar 🎤
- $6.5K in cash prizes for demo day 💰
We have Liftoff 🚀
The Indian Startup Village is officially underway.
Workshops, co-working, a ton of fun and giga shipping over the next two weeks — watch out!
What's next for payments after UPI? 🌎🇮🇳
Nandan Nilekani has laid out a vision for a global financial internet (unified ledger, digital assets, tokenisation, etc) in a 44 page whitepaper.
If you want to learn more, we've got a bounty for the best deep dive of said whitepaper.
Shoutout to everyone who came out to the kick-off mixer yesterday.
And props to the participants who took the floor and workshopped their ideas with the group.
March is gonna be 🚀
Today's the day! 🤯
10 Cities are hosting IRL Watch events for the Ecosystem Call -- BLR, Kolkata, Pune, Nagpur, Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Mumbai & Kanpur !!
Two housekeeping announcements:
1. Check your registration status on the EVENT PAGE; some emails may have
If you are,
- new to Solana
- coming to the Bengaluru HH
- want a chance to earn $$ & get on the main stage
then, we've got 2 bounties around creating developer guides for Blinks that you won't want to miss👇