Ask HN: How do you network with passionate and motivated people these days?

4 points by codemonkeysh 3 years ago | 5 comments

How do you network with people who are motivated, passionate, and actually doing something?

I love visiting coffee shops, but I like to connect with people who have the following attributes:

1. Motivated and building something 2. Isn't full of excuses or highly negative 3. Works on making progress daily

muzani 3 years ago |

I used to join entrepreneurship groups, but 5 years later they're still sharing motivational posters on Facebook. I did find a good group by joining accelerators and pitching classes.

I'm in a very good group with some of the best engineers I've met in the field. But it comes at a cost of having to hold an engineering job.

Back when I was freelancing, I'd hang around people who were actually making good money off it. But after no longer freelancing, that group also mysteriously died down.

If you want to meet people who are committed, you have to commit to something.

unsupp0rted 3 years ago |

To extend the question: how do you network with them remotely, when you don't live in a city or country with such people at your disposal in your language.

minhmeoke 3 years ago | |

Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/) has an excellent variety of people working on DIY projects. They host a variety of events as well which you might find to be interesting: https://hackaday.io/events

runjake 3 years ago | |

Online groups and in-person conferences, especially. Then, maintain those personal connections you've made at the conferences.

minhmeoke 3 years ago |

The best solution would be finding some kind of self-selection or filtering mechanism (eg: meetups, tech incubators, open source projects, maker fairs, maker spaces) that selects for people interested in building something interesting.

If you're looking online, Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/) has an excellent variety of people working on DIY projects.

Someone recently started a Hacker News Learns discourse group which you might be interested in joining: https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG

There seem to be several highly motivated people there working on various interesting projects. You might find some other interesting ideas in this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354994