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Last Friday we hosted Philly’s first Gen Audio × Tech meetup, PTE x Audiotool NEXUS, and it exceeded every expectation.

Nearly 60 people came out to explore what’s happening at the intersection of generative audio, AI, and music tech.

Massive thanks to Andreas Jacobi and Mirta Gilson from Audiotool for joining us all the way from Germany to show our developer community what’s possible on their NEXUS platform, with a live DJ set running the whole night to boot.

And to the team that made it run: Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Young-Burke, Randall Spence, Nolan Makatche and Liam Fitzgerald.

Shoutout also to Rithik Kundu, Grace Francisco and Dave Schneider for the early pushes that got this off the ground.

This is just the beginning. We’re building Philly’s third space for founders, and there’s a lot more coming.

Next up, and you don’t have to wait long:

Founder Junto Coworking, Tuesday 8/25 from 12 to 5 PM.
Location: Blockspace Philly

A third space for founders, creatives, and engineers to cowork and collaborate in a low-pressure environment. No agenda, no schedule, free coworking.

Just show up and work. RSVP to secure your spot while you still can.

Luma: https://luma.com/073bkzux
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316155379/?slug=philadelphia-entrepreneur&eventId=316155379 taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @phillyteche

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2 months ago

Philly Founders House Rooftop Vol 2 is in the books.

A nor’easter rolled in two days out, and we moved a sold-out rooftop event indoors with 48 hours’ notice. New venue, new layout, new plan, same night. 101 Speakeasy opened their doors and we pulled it off.

Huge thank you to the team who made it happen: Tim Gu, Trent, Scott, Paige, Gautham, and Nolan.

Tickets, sponsors, decor, logistics, and then half of it rebuilt when the weather turned. Nobody blinked.

Thank you to the three communities behind this one: Philly Founders House, Philly Social Club, and Philly Tech Entrepreneurs. Three communities, one night, one city.

Cache Ginger ran the music all night and kept the room moving. Thank you.

Thank you to 101 Speakeasy for the venue and the hospitality, and to Not Pizza for keeping the bar going.

And thank you to everyone who came out anyway. Founders, builders, and operators in one room on a rainy Saturday is exactly the point. The rain didn’t slow anything down. taken in Center City, Philadelphia by @phillyteche

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11 days ago

The reality of being a founder. The hype fades, and the late night engineering sessions begin. Grateful for the team putting in the hours to build something that lasts.

Shout out to Himanshu Hansaria for joining me for another late night build session in NYC! @hansariahimanshu

📍 Want to work with us in person? Come cowork with us this Friday, 9/25, at Founder Junto in Philly hosted by Philly Tech Entrepreneurs. Link: luma.com/ukq8d8ei

💻 Follow us on GitHub: github.com/nolanmak
We’re building a lot of open source projects:

• Agentflow: talk out loud with your Claude Code and Codex sessions

• Claude Intercept: see all the traffic on your computer, decrypted, including undocumented APIs. Great for QA and reverse engineering APIs. Built with our friend William Haesemeyer

• FlyOnTheWall: an open source Granola alternative. A local-first meeting recorder, no bot joins your call

• Murmur: an open source Wispr Flow alternative. Hold Control, speak, and it types for you on macOS

• Jarvis: our open source take on Hermes and OpenClaw, but better. A self-hosted AI assistant that runs your inbox and your relationships
◦ Triages 15+ channels, from Gmail and Slack to LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and X
◦ Drafts replies in your voice and waits for your approval
◦ Acts as a proactive CRM that nudges you about stale contacts and upcoming events
◦ Gets smarter the more you use it, as its knowledge base grows
◦ Improves itself by shipping new features autonomously every day

🐱 My cofounder Chris Crimi also built SeaCat, a Jev alternative for fast AI decisions with the odds attached. Send up to 64 multiple-choice, rating, or yes/no questions and get every answer back with probabilities, at $0.20 per million input tokens.

seacat.dev

⚙️ Ship Systems is the company behind it all. We design and ship AI systems, custom software and infrastructure for companies, from first audit to production. If your team has a workflow that should be automated, let’s talk. shipsystems.ai

📬 Want the behind-the-scenes? Sign up, for our Pretrill newsletter, at https://pretrill.com

#launchpad taken in New York City by @phillyteche

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18 days ago

Take the leap.

Chris Crimi caught this in SF, all of us locked in, heads down, building. That’s the standard. The people who make it happen are the ones who bet on themselves and put in the reps next to others doing the same. Iron sharpens iron!

Great build session with:
Chris Crimi, Kivanc Peltek, Justis Mendez, Syed Ali, Ship Systems, Echonos AI, OneSixOne Ventures

If you’re building something, come lock in with us. Here’s where to find us:

Fri, Sep 25 · Founder Junto Coworking hosted by Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs 12–5 PM
· Blockspace Philly, 215 S Broad St Free coworking with Philly founders. No agenda, no schedule. Bring whatever you’re building and get heads-down next to people doing the same.

RSVP →
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316287818/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Luma: https://luma.com/ukq8d8ei

Sat, Sep 26 · Rooftop After Dark with Philly Founders House Doors 9:30 PM · private rooftop in Philadelphia Live artists, DJs, food and complimentary drinks. 21+, invite-only, cover at the door. Only confirmed guests get the address, so register first and choose Nolan Makatche as the person who invited you.

Register → https://phillyfoundershouse.com/events-9-26/

Thu, Oct 1 · Cureon Night #2: Healthcare x Builders co-hosted by Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs and Cureon 6:30–9:30 PM · Tactix Real Estate Advisors, 100 N 18th St, Suite 520, Philadelphia Healthcare workers bring the real problems, builders bring the solutions. Nurses, physicians, techs, admins, engineers, designers, AI developers, founders and students, all in one room to build something that actually matters for healthcare.

RSVP →
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316589723/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Luma: https://luma.com/nfr2u953

Come find Ship Systems at all three 🚢

S/o to Chris for the video and the team that makes this possible:

Isayah Young-Burke, Trent Andraka, Liam Fitzgerald, Aryan Katragadda, Randall Spence, Tim G., Muhammad Rashid, Judah George, Likitha Tejaswini Kambidi, Scott Heigl-Yates, Hafiz Ahmed Muttaky, Eassa Ayoub

#launchpad taken in San Francisco, California by @phillyteche

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24 days ago

Philly Tech Entrepreneurs is back, and the momentum is real. Last month we relaunched as an official Audiotool NEXUS Satellite Meetup at Blockspace Philly, and the room delivered.

Nearly 70 people came by as the Audiotool team presented their new NEXUS platform live, and we had a DJ and live music going all night. The response from the community was incredible. Now we’re keeping the energy going.

Here’s what’s coming up:

Fri, Sep 25 · Founder Junto Coworking hosted by Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs 12–5 PM
· Blockspace Philly, 215 S Broad St Free coworking with Philly founders. No agenda, no schedule. Bring whatever you’re building and get heads-down next to people doing the same.

RSVP →
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316287818/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Luma: https://luma.com/ukq8d8ei

Sat, Sep 26 · Rooftop After Dark with Philly Founders House Doors 9:30 PM · private rooftop in Philadelphia Live artists, DJs, food and complimentary drinks. 21+, invite-only, cover at the door. Only confirmed guests get the address, so register first and choose Nolan Makatche as the person who invited you.

Register → https://phillyfoundershouse.com/events-9-26/

Thu, Oct 1 · Cureon Night #2: Healthcare x Builders co-hosted by Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs and Cureon 6:30–9:30 PM · Tactix Real Estate Advisors, 100 N 18th St, Suite 520, Philadelphia Healthcare workers bring the real problems, builders bring the solutions. Nurses, physicians, techs, admins, engineers, designers, AI developers, founders and students, all in one room to build something that actually matters for healthcare.

RSVP →
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316589723/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Luma: https://luma.com/nfr2u953

Friday brings the density. Saturday brings the spark. Thursday brings healthcare and builders into the same room.

Come find Ship Systems at all three.

Shout out to the team making these possible: Isayah Young-Burke, Trent Andraka, Liam Fitzgerald, Aryan Katragadda, Randall Spence, Tim G., Muhammad Rashid, Judah George, Likitha Tejaswini Kambidi, Scott Heigl-Yates, Hafiz Ahmed

#launchpad taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @phillyteche

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24 days ago

Material. Density. Spark.

Late one night around a fire in Stone Harbor, Chris Crimi, my co-founder of Ship Systems and partner at Panga, explained how growth actually works.

There’s linear growth, where what you put in is roughly what you get out.

Then there are power laws. For a long time you put in effort and energy and almost nothing happens. Then it takes off and compounds.

Wildfires work the same way. They need material, they need that material packed close together, and they need a spark.

Look around a room full of founders, builders and people who care about what they’re making, and the material is already there. As Chris put it: “We can spread our ideas like wildfires spread energy, and put ourselves on the map!”

So here’s how we’re spending the last weekend of September:

🔥 Fri, Sep 25 · Founder Junto Coworking
hosted by Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs
12–5 PM · Blockspace Philly, 215 S Broad St
Free coworking with Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs. No agenda, no schedule. Bring whatever you’re building and get heads-down next to people doing the same.

RSVP →  Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316287818/?eventOrigin=your_events 
Luma: https://luma.com/ukq8d8ei

🔥 Sat, Sep 26 · Rooftop After Dark with Philly Founders House
Doors 9:30 PM · private rooftop in Philadelphia
Live artists, DJs, food and complimentary drinks. 21+, invite-only, cover at the door. Only confirmed guests get the address, so register first and choose Nolan Makatche as the person who invited you.
 Register → https://phillyfoundershouse.com/events-9-26/

Friday brings the density. Saturday brings the spark.

Come find Ship Systems at both 🚢 @ship_systems

S/o to Hafiz Ahmed Muttaky for the content.

#launchpad taken in Stone Harbor, New Jersey by @phillyteche

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25 days ago

Philly Tech Entrepreneurs is closing out September on a rooftop in collaboration with Philly Founder House.

Rooftop After Dark, Saturday, September 26. A curated night of live artists, DJs, and complimentary food and drinks on a private Philly rooftop.   This is the night to close the laptop and meet the people building alongside you.

Doors at 9:30 PM. There’s a cover at the door, and the address goes out only to confirmed guests.

Spots are limited and filling fast, so please join the waitlist to lock yours in: phillyfoundershouse.com/events-9-26

See you on the roof. taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @phillyteche

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a month ago

Founder Junto #1 is in the books.

Thank you to everyone who came out to Blockspace Philly.

A room full of founders, heads down, getting real work done. Exactly what we were going for.

And.... We’re running it back!

· Friday, September 25
· 12 to 5PM
· Blockspace Philly Community Coworking

A third space for founders, creatives, and engineers. No agenda. No
schedule. Just founders coworking.

Show up and work. Bring whatever you’ve got going — code to ship, an
idea to sketch, a startup to push forward. Find a spot, go heads-down,
and put in real work alongside other people doing the same.

Good company, no pressure, actual work getting done.

(The name is a nod to the Junto, the club Franklin started in Philly back
in 1727, where tradesmen and thinkers met to sharpen one another. Same
spirit, different tools.)

Free to attend, but the room only holds so many. Grab a seat while they
last:

Luma → https://luma.com/ukq8d8ei
Meetup → https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316287818/?slug=philadelphia-entrepreneur&eventId=316155379&isFirstPublish=true

And to the crew keeping it running: TJ the dog, Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Young-Burke, Randall Spence, Nolan Makatche, FACTORY GTM, Ship Systems, Liam Fitzgerald and Blockspace Philly.

and to everyone that came through! Including: Tim G., Eassa Ayoub, Paola Hertz, Chase Lauer, Winthrop Brignoli, Jerome Barnes, Christian Iosif taken in Center City, Philadelphia by @phillyteche

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One Tuesday at Block Space Philly. Two reasons to show up. Build alongside founders and engineers all afternoon, then close the day watching people demo what they made.

Here’s the lineup:

Founder Junto, 12 to 5 PM

A third space for founders, creatives, and engineers. No agenda, no schedule, just coworking.

(The name is a nod to the Junto, the club Franklin started in Philly in 1727 where tradesmen and thinkers met to sharpen one another.)

Tuesday, August 25, 12 to 5 PM
Blockspace Community Coworking, Philadelphia
RSVP: luma.com/073bkzux
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316155379/

AI Philly Skill Share, 5:30 to 7:30 PM

Builders demo what they’re working on, trade feedback, and collaborate on open source AI. Come show what you’ve got, or come find something to build.

Tuesday, August 25, 5:30 to 7:30 PM
Blockspace Community Coworking, Philadelphia
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/ai-philly/events/315721664/

Seats are capped, so grab one while they last!

Hosted with our friends at Philadelphia Tech Entrepreneurs and AI Philly. Thanks to Michael Ghen and Matthew Rosen, Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Young-Burke, Randall Spence, Nolan Makatche, FACTORY GTM, Ship Systems, and Liam Fitzgerald for making it happen, and to Bull Harttraft, LLP for backing the space. taken in Center City, Philadelphia by @phillyteche

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2 months ago

Space is limited, and it’s going fast. RSVP before the room fills up.

Founder Junto Coworkong
· Tue Aug 25
· 12 to 5PM
· Blockspace Philly

A third space for founders, creatives, and engineers.

No agenda. No schedule. Just free coworking.

Show up and work. Bring whatever you’ve got going, code to ship, an idea to sketch, a startup to push forward.

Find a spot, go heads-down, and put in real work alongside other people doing the same.

The idea is simple: good company, no pressure, actual work getting done.

(The name is a nod to the Junto, the club Franklin started in Philly back in 1727, where tradesmen and thinkers met to sharpen one another. Same spirit, different tools.)

And to the crew keeping it running: Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Young-Burke, Randall Spence, Nolan Makatche, FACTORY GTM, Ship Systems, and Liam Fitzgerald.

Free to attend, but the room only holds so many.

Grab a seat while they last:
Luma → luma.com/073bkzux
Meetup → https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316155379 taken in Center City, Philadelphia by @phillyteche

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2 months ago

Seats are capped — and they’re going. RSVP before it’s full.

FOUNDER JUNTO · Tue Aug 25 · 12–5PM · Blockspace

A third space for founders, creatives, and engineers. No agenda. No schedule. Free coworking.

Just show up and work. Bring whatever you’re building, whether that’s shipping code, sketching an idea, or pushing your startup forward. Post up, get heads-down, and grind alongside other people doing the same.

The point is simple: good company, no pressure, real work.

(Name’s a nod to the Junto — the club Franklin ran in Philly starting 1727, where tradesmen and thinkers met to sharpen each other. Same idea, different tools.)

And to the team making it run: Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Burke, Randall Spence, Nolan Makatche, FACTORY GTM, Ship Systems and Liam Fitzgerald.

Free to attend, but the room only holds so many. RSVP while there’s still space:

Luma → luma.com/073bkzux
Meetup → meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/316155379 taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @phillyteche

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2 months ago

Tonight’s the night. Philly Tech Entrepreneurs is back, and this is the energy we’re bringing.

Today we officially relaunch as an Audiotool Satellite Meetup, kicking it off with a night built around community, music, and where AI-powered creativity goes next.

Forget the conference format and the keynote marathons. This is just founders, developers, designers, researchers, creators, and startup people back in one room together.

We’ll be unveiling Audiotool NEXUS, giving you a first look at the August 23 NEXUS Hackathon, and sharing what’s ahead for the developer workshops. And of course, live music.

Over 50 people have already signed up and only a few spots left. We’re close to maxed out, so RSVP ASAP before we’re full.

Tonight, Friday, August 14, 2026, 6:00 to 9:00 PM EDT
Blockspace Philly Community Coworking, 215 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA
RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/philadelphia-entrepreneur/events/315894876/

Doors open in a few hours. Swing by and reconnect with Philly’s startup scene.

Big thanks to Audiotool, Aryan Katragadda, Isayah Young-Burke, Randall Spence, Liam Fitzgerald, FACTORY GTM, Ship Systems, and Nolan Makatche for making this happen! taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @phillyteche

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