a house for builders who would rather ship than sleep.
Sixteen places, and no way to widen the door. Proximity is the whole product.
Outreach reached more than forty thousand builders across India. Sixteen of them will live and work in the Delhi house.
apply for onea room changes the pace of the work.
The first Hack47 room is not a conference, a course, or a content calendar. It is thirty days in a Delhi villa with people who arrived to make the work more real. Build in the open. Ask better questions at dinner. Leave with something that exists.
Not a lecture series. Not a demo-day factory. Pilot 01 stays small because proximity is the product.
working with the people building it.
Credits, compute, tooling and first-cheque conversations for the sixteen. The stack the house runs on.
Looking to partner?
Hack47 puts sixteen of India’s sharpest builders in one Delhi house for thirty days. Partners show up as credits, compute, tooling, teaching time, or a first cheque — and get a month inside the work rather than a logo on a banner.
Marks shown are the tools the house builds on. Formal partnerships are listed by name once each one clears it.
thirty days, and how they are spent.
Nobody starts from a blank page. You come in with something already running — a repo, a prototype, a user or two — and the thirty days are spent pushing it somewhere it could not have gone alone.
One log entry a day, posted where the other fifteen can read it. What moved, what broke, what you are stuck on. Being stuck in public is how you stop being stuck.
Four demo nights across the month. Ten minutes each, live software only. If it cannot be shown running, it does not get shown.
One long table, everyone at it. Whoever is closest to a hard problem talks first, and the rest of the room takes it apart. Most of what people remember happens here.
Halfway, every project gets a hard review from mentors and the room. Double down, cut scope, or start again with two weeks left. People who change direction here usually finish stronger.
Room, food, laundry, desk, bandwidth and machines are handled by the house. Not a perk — a design decision. The only difficult thing in your day should be the work.
One open evening in Delhi. Mentors, partners and whoever the sixteen want in the room. Everything shown is running, and everything shown is yours — Hack47 takes no equity.
The thirty days end, the fifteen other people do not. Alumni of pilot 01 keep house access, intros, and first call on every room that opens after this one.
the villa.
the house is a rehearsal for a campus.
Pilot 01 is thirty days in a rented villa. What we are actually building is permanent: a founder campus in Delhi where people live on site, cohorts overlap, and the door does not close at the end of a month.
One address. Residencies running back to back, a workshop and a studio floor, mentors who keep desks there, and a community that compounds because nobody has to leave to stay in it. India has plenty of programmes and almost no places. We are building the place.
One villa, sixteen places, thirty days.
Cohorts that overlap, so the room never fully empties.
A permanent Delhi address built for founders who live on site.
forty-seven hours, in one city at a time.
The house takes sixteen. The hackathons are how we meet everybody else — short, in person, and run in the cities builders already live in.
Hack47 runs a rolling series of forty-seven hour build weekends across India. No pitch decks, no idea stage, no theme for the sake of a theme — you arrive with a laptop, leave with something running, and the room is judged on what works. Every edition also doubles as a live audition: the people who stand out get a direct line into the next residency intake.
Opening edition. Two hundred builders, one floor, forty-seven hours.
Infra and agents weekend, hosted inside a working engineering office.
Consumer weekend. Ship something a stranger can use by Sunday night.
Campus edition, run with student engineering societies.
We bring the format, judging and prizes. You bring a room and a hundred builders.