The Homebrew Computer Club - inspiration for n0de

Most ambitious people build alone. n0de is fixing that.

n0de is a global builder network made of small, local meetups where real people meet offline - to build, share, and think together, weekly.
If you show signal, you're added to the ledger: n0de.club/yourname.
Each month, we publish a versioned global changelog of what was built, said, and shared.

Loneliness is the bottleneck.

Tools don't build momentum. People do.

Most builders don't lack skill.
They lack signal.

They're surrounded by noise, but not by others who actually give a damn.

Pop art illustration of Paul Graham

"Ambitious people are rare,

so if everyone is mixed together randomly,

the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers.

When you take people like this

and put them together with other ambitious people,

they bloom like dying plants given water."

that's what n0de does.

we water the right ones.

How n0de works

Weekly sessions

→ Every house meets once a week in person - café, home, studio

→ Deep work, 30-minute pulse (topic, podcast, demo)

→ Nothing is recorded unless it's useful

→ Recap logged to city.n0de.club/week-xx

Monthly drops

→ All cities sync one weekend a month: v0.1, v0.2, v0.3...

→ New people get 5 minutes to share their story

→ Top contributors are added to the ledger: n0de.club/name

→ A public changelog is published globally

The ledger + search

→ Every member has a minimal page (story, beliefs, builds)

→ Discover others at link.n0de.club - with AI, not by status

This is what it feels like.

Builders working together intensely at a LAN party setup.

You walk into a quiet house. Four people are building. One looks up, nods. You sit. You're in.

Early programmers collaborating around a terminal.

Someone demos their broken prototype. You help fix one line. Three weeks later, it ships.

People gathered and talking in an early computer lab setting.

You speak for 5 minutes at v0.3. Two people DM you after. One becomes your co-founder.

You don't join n0de.
You earn your spot by building.

We don't do:

followers
spectators
ghost members
central leadership
hype cycles
fake momentum

We do:

real people, building in-person
weekly check-ins, monthly drops
freedom to work on jobs, startups, or farms
caretakers, not admins
earned rep, not titles
quiet exits — no output, no presence

you can have a day job.

you just still show up.

Who it's for

From farmers building edge tools to teens building LLMs.

From solo founders in Bursa to security researchers in Nairobi.

If you build with intent, you'll find your people here.

"Geography was destiny - until now."

n0de starts in Europe and Asia. Then it spreads.
Not by hype. By conviction.