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So very true, I live here as well and noticed the same things. Even the local hackerspace (which is Germany's 2nd biggest) is very hardware oriented, it seems. Mechanical engineering is just very strong here.

I'd be very interested in more interesting things to work on, but as it is, its mostly big business IT with lots of Java and XML.

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maybe having different strengths than other "startup capitals" is something good, the only thing is that not many of those people with that knowledge take the decision to create a startup of their own.

look at the latest trend of startups that have hardware as part of their product and the internet of things movement, that will require different skills and there's a lot of that in stuttgart :)

I've been working in a small IT company in Stuttgart for the last five years and I have exactly the same problem. I'm looking forward to the days when we will start to see some exciting IT start-ups near Stuttgart - if they are ever to come =)

I'd be interested in any further info you have on it.

The last time I'd looked up Stuttgart's hackerspaces on hackerspaces.org, the pages looked dead.

I went one day to the stuttgart hackspace (http://shackspace.de/) and they gave me a nice introduction and tour, it's really big, they do really cool stuff.

if you are around you should go and take a look.

Its definitely big and active, not dead at all. The people are very open and most quite friendly, I can recommend it. Its just more on the hardware side of things, or at least thats the impression I got.

Thanks, I was looking for something like that.