Come build with us

Detroit Hacker House

Our goal is to incubate technology companies through a residential, cohort-based accelerator program in Detroit, MI. We provide room, board, mentorship and curriculum designed to remove distractions and barriers for founders to focus on building their product and business model through MVP validation.

Wayne State Students Apply Now!

Build > Ship > Learn

Live and work alongside your House Manager and EIRs who help you to build your product through mentorship and milestones

MVP (Minimally Viable Product)

We coach founders through the process of applying their customer discovery research to building an MVP and iterating to validate the key features and business model from customer response.

Mentorship

In addition to working alongside our House Manager, EIRs or Entrepreneurs in Residence provide support and feedback through workshops, office hours, and supporting unique needs depending on the startup.

Housing

Founders live alongside each other as roommates with a House Manager with free room, board, house keeping, laundry, wifi, in-home deskspace, and team outings.

Venture Backable

We work closely with VCs in setting key program targets that build investor confidence in the startup.

Our Team

As the co-founders of Detroit Black Tech and Hacking With The Homies Developer Conference, we are uniquely focused on furthering the Detroit Tech ecosystem while making sure Black and Brown Techies are supported. Since joining forces around 2017 we have worked to build programs and events that enable Developers to build better, faster and in a supportive community. We are furthering this vision by working on building technical founders as well as providing support to non-technical founders in our community.

Jeseekia Vaughn

Detroit Hacker House Program Director

Entrepreneur, Senior Software Engineer, MVP Developer, Developer Educator, and Machine Learning Engineer in startups

Mack Hendricks

Detroit Black Tech Executive Director

Entrepreneur, Principal Systems Engineer, and Senior Solutions Engineer in startups and the Fortune 500

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Detroit Hacker House 2025 Cohorts

We are partnering with TechTown Detroit to host the Live Innovate Play House for Wayne State students and recent grads. Learn more and apply on the program page or submit a general application if you're interested in future cohorts!

Live Innovate Play House General Application

Get in touch

If you want to learn more before applying or want to partner with us in bringing this opportunity to more founders please reach out!

jeseekia@detroitblacktech.org

Detroit, Michigan, USA