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Vetted Founders Only
Every member is reviewed before they get in. We optimize for builders shipping in the open and operators with hard-won pattern recognition — not titles, not stage, not vanity.
About // Hacker Garage HQ
A room full of operators.
Hacker Garage is an invite-only community for the people actually shipping the work — founders, engineers turned founders, and operators who can't sit still. It is built around weekly events, a vetted founder network, and a physical garage HQ in San Francisco that members can use whenever they need to think out loud, run a debug session, or close a deal.
Members
184
Cohorts
07
Events / Week
03
Founded
2024
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Weekly, Not Annual
Three events every week. Ship nights, founder lunches, and angel office hours. Real cadence beats one-off summits — momentum lives in the calendar.
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Garage HQ, Always Open
A physical room in San Francisco, keys for members. Show up at 2am to debug, drag a co-founder in, run a customer call from the booth, hack on a Sunday.
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Angels On Call
A standing roster of operator-investors who answer DMs the same day. We curate intros against real ask, not panel theater.
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