Ask HN: How to make tech friends?
I'm 24 and I don't have any tech friends. I moved from Europe to US about 4 years ago and basically started my life from zero. I remember when I first came to the US I had only $200, a bag full of clothes and no family or friends.
Well, things have gotten better now. I've managed to evolve a bit. I've been to a community college for 2 years, I've discovered I have some family so I moved to Arizona and I've also made some good friends.
But I do have an issue that really bothers me. I don't have tech friends. And boy, I'm reading HN every day now and the energy and inspiration I get from it is amazing, but I have no one to share it with. I truly want to start my own company, but reading all these articles about how having 2 founders is better than 1 makes me question my chances of success. The idea of starting a company got me thinking that I could never find a co-founder since I really have no tech friends. No one to share my ideas with, get feedback or challenge them.
So my question is how do I find people that are great individuals, smart/talented and passionate about software development to befriend with?
P.S. * I know school is probably the best place to find tech friends, but I just couldn't seem to find anyone smart enough and really passionate about technology at my college.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 45.0 ms ] thread1) Attend local tech meetups, hackathons, conferences.
2) Contribute to open source projects.
3) Be active in an online tech community, like HN.
4) Start a blog and write about technically intriguing stuff.
5) Build something cool and share it with everyone.
6) Get a GitHub account
7) Check something in. It doesn't have to be brilliant. I've made friends on some of the dumbest projects, with some of my poorest code.
8) Fork somebody else's project, contribute back a change, or a bug fix, or something.
PS: I'm a founder