NYC, Where are the Indie Hackers?

heads up — i live here and i'll be hosting an in-person meetup in nyc in just a couple weeks (haven't settled on a specific day yet)! word on the street is @csallen is also visiting from seattle.

I've been in NYC for 15 years (originally from Sweden) and have been part of a number of co-working and incubators over the years. Most recently I was a Betaworks in Meatpacking and before that at the Art/Tech incubator NEW INC.

As @big213 already mentioned it's hard to meet people who are actually in the process of building stuff, perhaps it's a result of expensive office/co-working rents and people trying to reduce costs in the early stage of building.

I've been in NYC for the last 3 years. It has its ups and downs 😆 I mostly dislike it except for the fact that you can find many cool people (like IH members here).

There used to be a pretty regular meetup before COVID. We need to renew that tradition.

I've lived in NYC all my life! I think it's about what part of NYC you're in. Sure there's finance and wall street, but there's also big tech companies with offices in NY. I work at a big tech company and almost everyone at work is building something on the side or just for fun.

Also as a side, a lot of builders and devs I know are just building from home.

About once a month, I get a couple of NYC indie hackers together to chat about our products over beers. If you'd like to join the next one, DM me on Twitter @foliofed!

Been living in Manhattan for a few months so far, and my experience has been similar. I'd say that, in general, catching a builder in the act of building is pretty rare. Sure, there are plenty of people thinking about building stuff, and then there's people who have concluded building stuff, either due to having given up or finished building whatever they wanted to build. And then there's the fact that the people building stuff are probably too occupied doing that to be out and about. So, you combine all these factors, and you realize that people building things are an elusive bunch. But they are out there, I guess you just have to know where to look.

Just sent you an email btw, feel free to connect!

I lived in NYC for a few months in 18/19, and loved it!
Anyway, I was wondering the same recently: not running into indie makers in my country. My solution was to turn to Twitter. I scraped all users related to #buildinpublic, and filtered for location. Now, at least I found 100+ users close to me, and already made connections and had opportunities.
If you're interested I could make a list filtered on NYC for you