I dropped out of high school and started building things on the internet. I’d already been to Network School and two other hacker houses — and everywhere I went, I found the same thing: the right people change everything.

The problem was there weren’t enough hacker houses. So I posted a tweet. It went viral. An hour later, I posted another one — announcing Cracked Hacker House Bangalore. Over 50 people applied. I selected the 10 most cracked.

On 5th May 2026, ten strangers moved into a villa in Bangalore for 30 days. No curriculum, no schedule — just proximity and ambition. Two new startups were founded. Someone raised $50k. By the end of the month, the entire first batch was invited to sit down with Harshil Mathur, CEO of Razorpay.

One week into Bangalore, I’d already announced the next house — Da Nang, Vietnam. For that cohort, Boardy, a $100M AI company, came on as a sponsor. Then Dubai. Then Bali. Each time, people who’d never met were building things together by week one.

Cracked isn’t an accelerator. It’s a spiderweb — designers, engineers, founders, hackers, AI builders, creators, all connected through the houses they’ve lived in. Every cohort adds more nodes. Every city tightens the web. The future is a global network of cracked people who found each other in a house.