518.codes Information

518.codes was founded by three software engineers who met at Startup Tech Valley in May 2026. We hit it off immediately — trading business ideas, comparing go-to stacks, talking through where we each wanted to go in software — and kept landing on the same idea: the 518 should have a real community for the people who write code here. So we started one. We are not a conference. We don't have sponsors, swag, or a stage. We're a group of people who like to hang out, write code, and support each other and the community around us. Anyone can host, and everyone is welcome — junior, senior, between jobs, between languages. Wherever you are in your career, you have a place at our table.