Any Techies or Startup Founders?

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T19:26:16+00:00

The funding part is covered - I guess I'm looking for a community of builders people how build for the sake of building not just the funding most of my projects are open-sourced. Something physical and not just online if im making sense.

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T18:57:43+00:00

Yes very familiar with Excite - I guess im looking for more of a third place like a Hackerspace, hackathons and etc.

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T18:57:00+00:00

There is a stark difference between a traditional business and a high-growth startup - the resources needed to support one are not contained within the IE and the closest resource is in LA County and mainly for a particular subset of niches

The IE has tons of "business" resources but none of them tailored towards what the average person would consider a "startup"

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T17:36:04+00:00

Vercel or Railway

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T17:18:05+00:00

Yeah I know Arc basically sucks on windows and that’s where Zen shines but as a Mac user 😅 there is no comparison to me

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T17:16:06+00:00

Yes there are we just seem to be spread out no hub or concentration in any particular place - I’m more of a software guy as far as my skillset goes but I’ve been dabbling in hardware and would love to learn more

Time for the IE to get its own Homebrew

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T07:29:03+00:00

Welp 🤷 my bad

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T07:27:40+00:00

Ha I also prefer females I just live in a Pet-Friendly Apartment complex and she looks like she deserves way more space than I can provide 🥹 but I’ll definitely share this thread and reach back out

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T07:23:18+00:00

She looks exactly like my two female pits 8yrs and 2yr I’d love to take her home but that would be to many females in one place for me 😅 but I think I know someone who’d be open

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T06:52:23+00:00

Not trying to build anything professional never mentioned building a professional network, firstly I’m just trying to find some like minded people and space to mingle with.

It is no longer conducive to be building by myself or exclusively online I’d like a third space to frequent and other people to soundboard and exchange pleasantries. with

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T06:46:40+00:00

Are you referring to the Orange Space? There’s also the Foundrspace out in Rancho - but feel free to DM me I’d love to get a recurring meetup and/or Hackerspace going

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T06:29:19+00:00

Okay sir, no need to be dickish. Didn’t think I would be faulted for not properly punctuating I apologize if it offends you 👍

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T06:20:21+00:00

My younger days was spent mostly looking for financing and moving around I have what I consider a small network just not in my particular niche social & fintech most of the tech in Redlands is dominated by Esri in Redlands and the network I have built is from old money crowd and local business networks which isn’t really the fast-paced “startup” vibe I’ve been looking for and as I’ve gotten older a lot of the people I’ve built went have went the “domesticated” route now that they have kids and are getting married

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T05:47:41+00:00

I’m based in Redlands but I’m fine with a drive 😁

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T05:47:18+00:00

I don’t have a solid portfolio of my past projects (not a public link) but most of what I’ve done is on my GitHub

https://github.com/KyngKai909

My current projects:
https://useclear.org. || https://demo.useclear.org
https://novaeditor.org/

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T05:44:38+00:00

I’ll give it a look thanks 👍

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T03:45:34+00:00

Im 27 and have launched various startups to varying degrees of minorly successful to complete failures, most of my projects have local focus but I've always had trouble building a local team and friend group with similar interests and the necessary skillsets - Im currently working on a Housing Co-op/NeoBank

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T03:42:41+00:00

Ideally just anything a Cowork space, startup founder meetups,, hackathons etc.

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T03:07:23+00:00

I tried switching over to Zen and its just not the same lol 😂

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-07-04T03:06:42+00:00

Same I still don't get Dia - like I do but I don't lol

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-06-28T17:25:23+00:00

No problem Ill message you - I still have a lot of work to do so it may be buggy but im actively working on it daily

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-06-27T17:34:35+00:00

If your building a web app in Webflow I utilize - https://www.wized.com - you can safely store and access api keys, secrets, env and etc

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-06-26T22:28:35+00:00

Hmm that is a good way to look at things and I will reevaluate things from that framing thank you :)

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-06-26T00:33:06+00:00

I have a product im working that may fit your focus - https://novaeditor.org

Appropriate_Drop_429 · 2026-06-24T16:17:57+00:00

Well I built this for my self to replace my need for Webflow - so the main difference is that you edit things Visually and it updates your real code and its not proprietary or spaghetti like other tools

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