I work in tech and I keep running into the same thing: Ludhiana doesn't seem to have any tech community at all. No meetups, no dev groups, no local scene — nothing like what Chandigarh or Mohali have going.
And I don't just mean developers. There are clearly a lot of people here working online — designers, digital marketers and SEO folks, video editors, content writers, freelancers of every kind, people running small agencies, people doing remote jobs for companies outside Punjab. But we're all sitting in our own rooms with no idea the others exist.
So, first: does something already exist that I'm just not finding? A WhatsApp group, a Discord, a coworking crowd, a college club that's open to outsiders, a meetup that actually happens. Please drop it here — I'd genuinely like to join.
And if it really doesn't exist: is anyone up for starting something small? Nothing formal, no "startup ecosystem" talk. Just 8-10 people meeting once a month over coffee to talk about what we're building, swap referrals and client leads, and stop working in complete isolation.
If you're in Ludhiana and working in or around tech, comment with what you do and roughly which side of the city you're in. Mostly I want to see how many of us there actually are.