Hacker
Bloc

Eastern Bloc roots.
Silicon Valley ambition.

Hooded builder soldering at a workbench, halftone green

What is it?

Floors 0–2 — a hacker house in Warsaw where we live and build our startups: Hacklab and Epikor.

Floor −1 — a mini hackerspace where Warsaw founders learn, prototype, and ship MVPs — get first users, early feedback, and learn from each other.

We're fucked. We moved in July 1st and the landlord wants to sell the house. We need €1 000 000. €800k to buy it, €200k to renovate and stand it up. If you care about making Poland Europe's tech epicenter, visit the sponsor page or book a meeting with us directly.

Floors

Sleeping floor. Bunks and dorm space for founders crashing during builds and hackathons.

Full residency floor — founders living where they build. First wave gets first pick.

The social floor. Meetups, demos, long tables, and the room where the house actually gathers.

Event hall for 100+. Talks, demo nights, and the room that runs the house calendar.

Hacklab office and studio. Day-to-day work floor — desks, recording, and shipping in progress.

Expanded production studio and founder workspace. More desks, more builds, more signal.

Outdoor yard and BBQ. Soft entry into the bloc — grill smoke, whiteboards, stranger friends.

Year-round garden kitchen. Soft entry stays; capacity and weatherproofing grow.

Hardware lab below street level, run with Epicor. Solder, CNC, GPUs.

Full hardware dungeon — more stations, more machines, space for bigger builds.

House rules

01Bring more value than you take. Think about how you can be useful and what you can give before asking about taking.
02Clean up after yourself. Wash every dish you used immediately, put your shit in the trash, don't leave your stuff in random places.
03Don't touch other people's shit. Laptops, monitors, cameras, chargers, cables, speakers, lights and so on.
04Don't go into residents' private rooms uninvited.
05Don't interrupt Hacklab meetings!
06Fridge, coffee, and house 24/7 are for residents and Hacklab team. Goblins get the dungeon. Floor 2 is booked guests only. Floors 0 and 1 are residents and Hacklab team, except during events.
07Events are the exception. During a public event, guests can be on floor 0 and floor 1. Not floor 2, not overnight, not the fridge. When the event ends, default rules are back.
08House daddy's call is final. No courtroom.
09Floor 0 is hacklab work. Do not park yourself in a Hacklab office you were not directly invited to.

Mission — The First Wave

> Warsaw has the talent. It never had the room. HACKER BLOC is the room — a brutalist block with Eastern Bloc roots and Silicon Valley ambition, wired for the people who build instead of pitching.

> We are not coworking. We are not an incubator. We are not a theoretical nonprofit. We put our own money, weekends, and power tools into this building, and it shows.

> The first wave is the founding crew: the ones who showed up when the dungeons were still dark, ran cable through concrete, hosted the first BBQs, and shipped the first hackathon before the paint dried.

> Everything here is skin in the game. Sponsors power it, residents run it, and nobody rents a desk — you earn a spot by building things that work.