Not a college club
We are not tied to one campus, one batch or one faculty. Membership follows what you build, not where you study.
About · HackWithPune
A city that builds together.
HackWithPune exists to make Pune a more connected and active technology ecosystem, by giving emerging builders a place to learn, collaborate, compete and turn ideas into working products.
01The problem
Pune has the talent. What it lacks is the connective tissue.
Students, developers, designers, founders and companies all exist in the same city and rarely meet through their work. Campus societies are bounded by their campus. Hackathon organisers deliver a moment, not a network.
HackWithPune is the layer in between: persistent, open, and city-wide.
02Positioning
Not only a hackathon organiser
Hackathons are one door in. Workshops, open source, incubation and hiring keep people building between events.
A builder network
One shared city-level network of students, developers, startups, companies and technical communities.
03Principles
- 01
Ship real things
Every programme ends in something that runs. Attendance is not the metric. Output is.
- 02
Open by default
Open projects, open knowledge, open doors. Credit is always given and always public.
- 03
City over campus
Colleges are where we start, not where we stop. Everyone in Pune who builds belongs here.
- 04
Standards, not gatekeeping
High bar for work, low barrier to entry. Beginners are welcome; sloppy craft is not.
- 05
Earn trust slowly
We would rather run fewer, better events than many forgettable ones.
04Who it’s for
Students
Turn coursework into a portfolio. Find teammates beyond your campus.
Developers
Mentor, maintain, and meet people building at your level or beyond it.
Designers
Join product teams early. Ship interfaces that real users touch.
Founders
Find co-builders, first users and introductions to the right rooms.
05Organising team
Founding organiser
Pune
Programmes lead
Pune
Partnerships lead
Pune
Community lead
Pune