Code together.
Own your stack.

Pittsburgh Geeks is a community of coders, makers, and technologists who believe the best code is written around a table with good coffee — and the best servers are the ones you co-own.

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What this is

Pittsburgh has always been a city that builds things. Steel, bridges, robots, and now — software that serves its community instead of extracting from it. Pittsburgh Geeks exists to reclaim the city's maker identity for the digital age.

Community Meetups

Study groups, hackathons, workshops, and lightning talks. Some are beginner-friendly. Some are deep-dives. All are free.

Coop Servers

A member-owned server collective. Your data stays in Pittsburgh, on hardware the community owns. No VC-backed cloud. No surprise bills.

Learning Together

Whether you're shipping your first HTML page or debugging kernel modules, you'll find people who want to help and learn alongside you.

Coding Meetups

Regularly scheduled gatherings around Pittsburgh. No RSVP required. Just show up with a laptop and curiosity.

Wednesdays

Open Hack Night

7–10 PM at HackPGH (1936 5th Ave). Bring a project, find a crew, or pair on someone else's. All languages, all levels. Pizza provided when sponsorship allows.

2nd Saturday

Study Group: Web Fundamentals

10 AM–1 PM at South Side Works co-working. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no frameworks, no build tools. Learn how the web actually works before you layer abstractions on top of it.

4th Saturday

Coop Build Day

10 AM–3 PM at the Digital Disconnections workshop (9936 Saltsburg Rd). Infrastructure work on the coop server fleet. Install drives, debug networking, provision containers. Boots-on-the-metal ops.

Quarterly

Pittsburgh Hackathon

A weekend-long build event. Previous winners: a community fridge map, a bus arrival predictor that actually works, and a group chat that stores nothing on any server. Join the mailing list to hear about the next one.

Know a venue that wants to host? Running something that belongs here?

Suggest a Meetup

Coop Servers

Rent is what you pay for things you'll never own. We don't believe in rent.

The Pittsburgh Geeks Server Cooperative is a member-owned infrastructure collective. Members contribute monthly dues, and the coop maintains a shared fleet of servers in Pittsburgh. Your sites, databases, and services run on hardware the community owns — not a cloud provider that could change its terms, raise its prices, or shut down your account with a form email.

Individual

$15/mo
  • 1 website or service
  • 5 GB storage
  • Shared CPU
  • Community support
  • Voting membership

Great for a personal site, blog, or small side project.

Most Popular

Coop Member

$35/mo
  • Up to 5 websites
  • 25 GB storage
  • Dedicated CPU share
  • AI edit agent included
  • Priority support
  • Voting membership

The sweet spot. Mirrors the Discnxt commercial service but as a coop — you own your share.

Organization

$95/mo
  • Up to 25 websites
  • 100 GB storage
  • Guaranteed CPU
  • AI edit agent included
  • 99.9% SLA
  • 3 voting seats

For small businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations.

Not sure yet? Come to a meetup first. Talk to members who run their sites on the coop. No sales pitch — just people who believe servers should be owned, not rented.

How it compares

Coop Member Discnxt (commercial) Typical cloud
Pricing model Co-op owned Flat fee Monthly subscription
You own the server Yes (collectively) Yes, but via Discnxt No
Data location Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Somewhere (?)
AI edit agent Included Included Extra
Voting rights Yes N/A (customer) No
Site portability Full Full Locked in

Get involved

No application process. No membership fee to show up. Pittsburgh Geeks is open to anyone who codes, wants to code, or builds things with technology.

Come to a meetup

Show up at any of the regular events listed above. Introduce yourself. Bring a laptop or just bring questions.

Join the coop

Ready to move your site to hardware you co-own? Sign up for any coop tier. First month is free — come to a build day and meet the hardware.

Volunteer

Help run events, mentor beginners, or contribute to the coop infrastructure. The community runs on people who show up.

Stay in touch

Join the mailing list for event announcements, coop updates, and Pittsburgh tech news. No spam. No VC pitch decks.

Questions? Ideas? Want to host something?

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