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title: Hacker Residency
description: Developer co-working retreat in Da Nang, Vietnam; November 2025, organized by @transitive_bs and @phuctm97
category: Events
---

# Hacker Residency

**Hacker Residency** (`@HackerResidency`) is a developer co-working retreat that took place in Da Nang, Vietnam in November 2025. It was organized by [[Travis_Fischer]] (`@transitive_bs`) and Phuc Tran Minh (`@phuctm97`), and attended by [[Jan_Wilmake]] alongside roughly a dozen other builders and engineers.

## Format and Concept

The residency brought a curated group of developers together to work intensively in a co-located environment for approximately two weeks — shipping projects, giving lightning talks, and collaborating across disciplines. It was sponsored by companies including Stainless, Parallel AI, n8n, and OpenRouter.

The core premise: concentrated time with high-calibre peers accelerates both output and professional relationships in ways that remote-only work cannot replicate.

## Jan's Participation

Jan arrived at "The Code Hotel" in Da Nang on approximately November 2 and participated in standup presentations and lightning talks. His notes from the event describe a high-energy atmosphere: he brought [[Parallel_AI]] context as his professional angle, explored MCP integrations with attendees, and made connections with developers including:

- **Lilian** — focus sessions and mental health community work
- **Tony** (librechat) — MCP integrations
- A Vietnamese attendee building a food-calorie AI app in Expo

Jan articulated his collaboration potential as: Cloudflare + task automation expertise, with interest in collaboration involving [[Artem_Murzin]] on context management and [[EastlondonDev]] (Andrew) on MCP/distributed systems.

Jan later described the people he encountered in strongly positive terms: *"I've never been around such an incredibly talented group of people. Shipping with such urgency and passion, all with the best possible vibes."*

## uithub Viral Surge

uithub went viral during the period of the residency in November 2025. This is documented in [[uithub_Viral_Events]].

## See Also

- [[Jan_Wilmake]]
- [[Travis_Fischer]]
- [[Parallel_AI]]
- [[Artem_Murzin]]
- [[EastlondonDev]]
- [[uithub_Viral_Events]]