Comment by bryanlanders

Yeah, you're right it can be tough. We started our own organization (https://sdx.community) centered around hackers/builders because it felt like it was missing, exactly as you described!

We share on Twitter, Luma, LinkedIn, and try to get other community groups to amplify, but there's a lot of noise out there, so we likely miss a lot of cool people.

Sometimes you get lucky and there's a good community slack/discord (for example the San Diego Startups slack) where you'll see most events posted. Otherwise, startups that are hiring engineers tend to sponsor and share events. Beyond that you have to just find out from other hackers where they're speaking or joining something.

Where do you live?