Ask HN: Where are all the mechanical engineers?

Hey HN! I come from a mostly EECS background, but because I work for a tiny robotics startup, I've been doing a nontrivial amount of mechanical design work at my job recently. We've been hiring some really talented mechanical engineers, but I would love to meet more (and ideally hire more folks way better than me!).

It occurred to me that I have no idea if there is an equivalent to HN for mechanical engineers. Do you all have any ideas on where I could be meeting more people? Are there communities like HN with a more mech-e focused crowd?

(Context: we are working on construction robots that build solar farms, and we had a Launch HN [0] post a few months back.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455

Would love to see a HN for aviation startups.

Unfortunately most every time I see an aviation startup, it’s the same silly hot garbage. If I see one more multicopter based autonomous air taxi service, or magical supersonic transport for savage good boys pitched, I’m gonna scream.

(Context - 20+ years experience in product development engineering and new/derivative product launch at a large airframe manufacturer.)

We're here! Just lurking for interesting posts!

reddit.com/r/askengineers tends to be heavier in conventional engineering / industrials. IDK if they allow recruiting posts.

But I think CS people tend to be much more online, since they build the internet and all.

Not related to mechanical engineering, but I always wonder why there is such less discussion of real world product design. It's almost like we take stuff for granted. What type of degree would one need to develop a career designing stuff like lunch tiffin boxes or shoes or the other hundreds of myriad things we use in daily life? So many people seem obsessed with CSS and JS here.