Last night, Austin's builders and community organizers came back to Antler for the second Code for Community Austin meetup, hosted by Antler and sponsored by Gauntlet AI. The premise has not changed: local organizations already know what their communities need, and Austin has the talent to help them build it.
The presentations are over, but the work is just beginning. Below are the three projects shared on September 15, why each one matters, and the clearest way to raise your hand. You do not need to have every skill listed. Bring what you know, stay curious, and be ready to build alongside the people closest to the problem.
Meditation Community
Meditation Community helps people find in-person meditation and helps local teachers and organizers reach the people looking for them. The work starts in Austin, built on direct relationships with teachers rather than scraped listings.
Build an Austin meditation discovery service that connects organizer research, outreach tracking, event submissions, administrative review, and public listings. A visitor should be able to answer one question: I am in South Austin, free on Thursday evening, and new to meditation—what can I attend, what should I expect, and where do I register?
- Full-stack development
- Databases and authentication
- Product and workflow design
- QA and accessibility
- Research and outreach
Tiny Hacker House
Tiny Hacker House is an Austin initiative connecting affordable housing, a community innovation center, entrepreneurial collaboration, hackathons, and maker activities—sixteen years of community building now aimed at a live-work space Austin can actually afford.
Give the project a website it owns. Today the campaign lives inside a personal Squarespace site, tangled up with a resume and a decade of archives. Volunteers will build a focused public site, a lightweight content admin, and a simple relationship pipeline that turns interest forms into tracked follow-ups—on a documented codebase the project keeps.
- TypeScript and Next.js
- PostgreSQL data modeling
- Authentication and access control
- Content migration
- Design and accessibility
Access Ride
Access Ride helps people get to their appointments through a network of reviewed transportation providers. The demo works and the first rides are being coordinated by hand—what is missing is the foundation underneath it.
Turn a working demonstration into dependable infrastructure. Volunteers will move the site onto hosting the team can maintain, connect provider signup to secure storage for business details and documents, and keep a durable record of every ride from request through approved quote to outcome—so nothing important lives only in someone's memory.
- Backend and full-stack development
- Secure document storage
- Frontend and forms
- Deployment and recovery
- Testing and documentation
Thank you for showing up
To Antler for the room, to Gauntlet AI for backing the night, to Brandon, Anil, and Leroy for bringing real problems to a room of strangers, and to everyone who listened and offered their time—thank you.
Choose the project that stays on your mind. Open its volunteer form. Tell us how you would like to help. Let's build something useful together.