Minnestar

Minnestar Minnestar exists to create experiences where the passion and potential of the Minnesota technology community come together. http://minnestar.org/

We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that is organized, funded, and built to serve our great community. Minnestar exists to bring together Minnesota’s technology community. Our goal is to promote connections that help our community learn from each other, build their businesses, and start new entrepreneurial ventures. We aim to bridge the gap between software developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

T-minus 7 hours until 7 demos take the stage! 🤓7 demos.7 minutes each.0 slides.100% live tech.Minnedemo42 kicks off at...
10/01/2026

T-minus 7 hours until 7 demos take the stage! 🤓

7 demos.
7 minutes each.
0 slides.
100% live tech.

Minnedemo42 kicks off at 7 PM tonight at the Ordway — but the fun starts well before that. Come early. Stay late. Get your geek on. 🎉

All the info 👉 link in bio.

is taking over St. Paul TOMORROW!We’re bringing Minnesota’s tech + innovation community to downtown Saint Paul, Minnes...
09/30/2026

is taking over St. Paul TOMORROW!

We’re bringing Minnesota’s tech + innovation community to downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota of for an entire evening of building, connecting, and showing off some seriously cool stuff.

🌳 3:30 PM // Innovation @ the Park
🎭 5:30 PM // Minnedemo doors + networking
⚡ 7:00 PM // Demos begin
🍻 10:00 PM // Wild AI Afterparty

Start in Rice Park for Innovation @ the Park with Full Stack Saint Paul + local innovators, resource providers, and community organizations — plus food trucks, interactive tech, music + more!

Then head across the street to Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for , Minnesota’s original geek show-and-tell! Seven demos. Seven minutes each. No slides. Just real, working tech built by people right here in our community:

🥁 Sean Hobin // BeastBox
🐟 Lori Ryan + Arun Batchu // Gutchx
💡 Charlie Murray // Watt Window
🎫 Chris Minoko + Ahmed Ali // Haflad
🤖 Sage Faraday // Rosenblatt
📦 Koy Payne // WhereHowSpace
🎮 Scott Bromander // SnekLab

And when the demos are done? Head over to the Wild AI Afterparty to keep the conversations + connections going.

Come early. Stay late. Join us for one stop or make a night of it — just come curious and get your geek on. 🤓

🎟️ We opened up the balcony, so there are still some free Minnedemo tickets available. Grab yours from the link in bio.

🫶 A huge thank you to our sponsors for making Minnestar events possible and keeping them community-centered, free, and o...
09/28/2026

🫶 A huge thank you to our sponsors for making Minnestar events possible and keeping them community-centered, free, and open to all — especially as we gear up for on Thursday!

We’re incredibly grateful to every organization that shows up for and invests in the hashtag community. Whether you’ve been alongside us for years or are new to the family, we couldn’t do it without you.

Show ’em some love 👇

🚨 MORE MINNEDEMO42 SEATS JUST OPENED UP!Big news: we’ve unlocked additional balcony seating at the Ordway for Minnedemo4...
09/28/2026

🚨 MORE MINNEDEMO42 SEATS JUST OPENED UP!

Big news: we’ve unlocked additional balcony seating at the Ordway for Minnedemo42 THIS Thursday, Oct 1 in St. Paul!

If you missed out earlier — or have a friend you’ve been meaning to invite — now’s your chance.

⚡ 7 live demos
⏱️ 7 minutes each
🚫 No slides
🫶 600+ people from across the hashtag community

🎟️ Snag your ticket while they last — link in bio.

👋 Meet Scott Bromander, presenting SnekLab at hashtag ! 🎮Scott has spent years hearing people say, “I have a game idea!”...
09/25/2026

👋 Meet Scott Bromander, presenting SnekLab at hashtag ! 🎮

Scott has spent years hearing people say, “I have a game idea!” SnekLab is built to help them actually make it. Turn an idea into a playable prototype, then build out the world with visuals, characters, audio, 3D assets + more.

See Scott turn a game concept into something you can actually play LIVE at Minnedemo on Oct 1!

👀 A peek at the stack: React, FastAPI, Postgres, Valkey, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Black Forest Labs, ElevenLabs, Meshy, and Resend

🎟️ Get your ticket play along, link in bio.

👋 Meet Koy Payne, presenting WhereHowSpace at ! 📦One of the most important questions in warehousing sounds simple: Will...
09/25/2026

👋 Meet Koy Payne, presenting WhereHowSpace at ! 📦

One of the most important questions in warehousing sounds simple: Will it fit? WhereHowSpace uses inventory data, operating rules + real building constraints to generate storage capacity and feasible warehouse layouts in minutes.

See Koy build an interactive 3D warehouse layout from real operational data LIVE on Oct 1!

👀 A peek at the stack: Python, Flask, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Three.js + a custom warehouse optimization engine

🎟️ Snag your ticket, link in bio.

👋 Meet Sage Faraday, presenting Sovereign Software Factory: Powered by Hermes at ! 🤖What does a software engineering te...
09/25/2026

👋 Meet Sage Faraday, presenting Sovereign Software Factory: Powered by Hermes at ! 🤖

What does a software engineering team look like when some of the engineers are AI agents? Drawing on a military intelligence perspective, Sage will show Rosenblatt’s “software factory” in action — using agents to plan, build + review real engineering work.

See Sage and multi-agent software development in action LIVE on Oct 1!

👀 A peek at the stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Slack API, Hermes, GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Fireworks AI, DeepInfra + Anthropic

🎟️ Ticket link in bio.

👋 Meet Chris Minoko, presenting Haflad at ! 🎫 Selling tickets is only one piece of running an event. Vendors, booth pay...
09/25/2026

👋 Meet Chris Minoko, presenting Haflad at ! 🎫

Selling tickets is only one piece of running an event. Vendors, booth payments, check-in, texts, emails + spreadsheets quickly become the rest. Haflad brings all of those moving pieces together in one platform — and it’s already powering real events.

See Chris put the whole event workflow to work LIVE on Oct 1!

👀 A peek at the stack: TypeScript, React 19, TanStack, Node.js, Postgres, Stripe, Apple Wallet/PassKit, OpenPhone, Anthropic Claude, Mapbox + Railway

🎟️Tickets in bio.

👋 Meet Charlie Murray, presenting Watt Window at hashtag ! ⚡What does it actually cost to keep a factory running? Watt W...
09/25/2026

👋 Meet Charlie Murray, presenting Watt Window at hashtag ! ⚡

What does it actually cost to keep a factory running? Watt Window turns millions of industrial data points into the handful of insights that actually matter, helping surface opportunities to save energy and spot potential problems before they become outages.

See Charlie put Watt Window to work with real industrial plant data LIVE on Oct 1!

👀 A peek at the stack: Eaton, WAGO, Banner Engineering + Trumeter industrial hardware, Python, CODESYS Group, React, Amazon Web Services (AWS) + custom monitoring systems.

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