Services and developer tools

There’s already a list of Hack Club tools and services on Toolbox so I won’t be listing them again. Instead, I’ll list a few I find interesting/important. I highly suggest reading the full list on Toolbox though.

Developer tools

Nest

Slack channel: #nest

Meet Nest! A 48-core server with 256 gigs of DDR5 and 1.92 terabytes of storage in the form of 2 NVMe drives hosted in Helsinki, Finland, on Hetzner accessable to any Hack Club member. Nest can be used to host websites, or game servers, or backends for projects.

Check out all the projects on Nest here!

Spaces

Slack channel: #spaces

Virtual development environments for Hack Clubbers. VSCode, Blender, KiCad, and more, in the cloud.

Hack Club AI

Slack channel: #hackclub-ai

Free LLM inference ($6 daily limit) for Hack Clubbers, limited to certain models.

A daily limit was added because a few hack clubbers were using 80% of the balance :( Credits are bought from OpenRouter.

Hack Club Search

Slack channel: #hackclub-search

Free Brave Search API results for Hack Club members

Workshops

Hack Club has, like, so many workshops. A workshop is essentially a mini-lesson that teaches you something new about webdev (or other subjects). They’re bite-sized and super digestable (each one is 5-15 minutes). They are workshops for making a snake game, or a stopwatch, or a Chrome extention, or for Python, or React and so. much. more. Seriously - check it out if you’re a beginner to programming or you’re looking to learn something new.

Misc

HCB

Hoo boy! HCB!

HCB is a fiscal sponsor, meaning that it provides its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to projects that receive donations through HCB. Legal tax evasion!!! When a donation is made to a project through HCB, a 7% fee is taken sobspin but there are no other fees afterwards! 🎉

Since 2018, HCB has processed 80+ million dollars in transactions across 6500+ projects. HCB does a lot of stuff for your organization, like…

automatically file taxes
pay team members automatically
accept donations
issue virtual or physical cards to spend money
make finances transparent

…and other features! Learn more at the official website!

Subdomain on dino.icu

You can get a subdomain on dino.icu for personal purposes like a portfolio or a random project you made. You get one by merging a PR into https://github.com/hackclub/dns into the dino.icu.yaml file. More detailed instructions are on the repo and inside the dino.icu.yaml file.

Temporary email addresses

Slack channel: #temp-email

Get your fresh and hot temporary email addresses here! Just say “gib email”

Misc

aisafety.dance

This isn’t exactly a “service,” but I couldn’t find anywhere else to stick this, so I’m sticking it here.

It’s a digestible write-up with comic strips to illustrate points about how AI could go horribly wrong