Top Independent Platforms Communities1045
- #1
Starter Story
Entrepreneurship, Saas, Indie Business, Business, Marketing
Learn how people are starting successful businesses. 3,079 case studies with founders who built their businesses to thousands of customers.(3)235K members
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SalesHookup
Sales, Business Development
SalesHookup is a platform that matches B2B sales professionals for video networking sessions. Members use their sessions to solve their biggest sales challenges whilst building relationships with like-minded peers. Highlights - Members in 50 countries - Trusted by LinkedIn, Hubspot, Google, and more - Automated matching - Live video networking sessions - Personalised list of your matches(4)3K members
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Kink Talk
Bdsm
Kink Talk is a community and resource for adults researching and exploring the kink, BDSM, and fetish worlds. Here, you can discuss BDSM, Femdom, Chastity Belts, Bondage, and more!62K members
Forum - #4
CGTrader
3d Art, 3d Printing
CGTrader is the world's preferred source for 3D content. Join CGTrader community to buy & sell 3D Models, find freelance projects, showcase your art, get feedback and recognition!6.0M members
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Vogue Club
Beauty, Fashion
Vogue Club is a private, exclusive online community and membership platform created by Vogue magazine. It offers a unique space for fashion enthusiasts, industry professionals, and Vogue readers to connect, engage in discussions, access exclusive content, and stay updated on the latest fashion trends, news, and events.ForumPerksEventsNewsletterPaid - #6
Drooble
Music
The Social Network For Musicians! A revolutionary approach to networking and music promotion104K members
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LookBook
Fashion
Lookbook.nu is an online community and platform for fashion enthusiasts to share their personal style through photographs. It serves as a platform where individuals can showcase their outfits, experiment with different styles, and gain inspiration from others.600K members
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Travel Massive
Travel, Professions
Travel Massive connects thousands of tourism professionals, travel media, influencers and startups from around the world to meet, connect and share ideas.80K members
ForumEventsNewsletterJobsCourses - #9
All Poetry
Poetry
The web's largest poetry writing group - from beginners to experts. Improve your poetry, create a fan base, and read the best poetry of our generation. Allpoetry is home base for poets.2K members
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Spiritual Forums
Spirituality
This community is for people from all backgrounds to discuss Spiritual, Paranormal, Metaphysical, Philosophical, Supernatural, and Esoteric subjects. From Astral Projection to Zen, all topics are welcome.281K members
Forum MLB 9 Innings Rivals Official Forum
Baseball, Gaming
This is the official forum for officially licensed MLB mobile game with the latest rosters and schedules! Enjoy an MLB mobile game with improved graphics! Discuss the game with other players!ForumEventsNewsletterThursday Night Sales
Sales
The #1 Weekly Virtual Sales Happy Hour!ChatEventsFetish.com
Bdsm
Kink-positive BDSM community for fetish dating with free chat for kinksters. With 24/7 forums, chat and magazine, you'll always be entertained!ForumChatTravellerspoint
Travel
Travellerspoint helps you discover new destinations, organise your trips and share your travel experiences1.1M members
ForumThe Fashion Spot
Fashion, Beauty
The ultimate spot for the fashion obsessed including runway reviews, celebrity style and fashion, fashion and beauty trends, designers, models, and more. The Fashion Spot forum is a platform for fashion enthusiasts to engage in discussions, share their fashion insights, ask for advice, and connect with like-minded individuals. It covers various categories, including fashion news, trends, celebrity style, beauty, shopping, and more.82K members
ForumOneHallyu
K Pop
A popular international forum for K-pop and Asian entertainment discussions. A hub for international fans to engage in conversations, share news, and connect with others who share their interests in K-pop and various aspects of Asian pop culture.124K members
ForumEventsFetLife
Bdsm
FetLife is the most popular social network for the BDSM, fetish & kinky community. Its mission is to help people feel comfortable with who they are sexually. It's important to note that while FetLife is a popular platform for people in the BDSM and kink community, it's intended for adults only and requires users to be 18 years or older to join.10.4M members
ForumEventsCosplay.com
Cosplay
Cosplay.com is a place for cosplayers, photographers and fans to celebrate the cosplay hobby in one place. This is a platform where cosplayers and enthusiasts can share their costume creations, participate in discussions, and connect with others who share their interest in cosplay.ForumEventsSmall Business Forum
Small Business
We are a friendly community of small business owners sharing our experience to help others, discuss issues, talk shop, and learn more about runnining and growing our businesses.29K members
ForumHabitica
Accountability, Personal Growth
Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you, Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy, hard-working, and happy.4.0M members
ChatF6S
Cofounder, Venture Capital
A free platform with over 4 million users. F6S lets you connect with accelerators, funds, investors — you name it. More to the point, they'll let you post a position at your startup. The F6S community delivers company growth through funding, investment, pilot contracts, grants, partnerships, jobs & talent and company services.4.6M members
ForumApplyEventsNewsletterJobsCoursesMathematical Association of America
Math
The Mathematical Association of America is the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts. We further the understanding of our world through mathematics because mathematics drives society and shapes our lives.ForumPerksEventsPaidStartup Grind
Entrepreneurship
Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.2.0M members
ForumApplyEventsElectronics Point
Electrical Engineering
Electronics Point was founded in 2005 by a young electrical engineer located in the UK while at University. His efforts over the last decade have helped it become a community where members can discuss, advise and debate electronics-related topics. We look to promote the community through technology commentary, community research, and interviews with the engineers who are designing the future. We aim to explore up-and-coming components, designs, and consumer products and assess the pending progress of the industry as it relates to the hardware engineer. We want to uncover the people behind the hardware, better understand their lives and habits, and knit together a community of big-picture thinkers.53K members
ForumArtStation
Art, 3d Art
ArtStation provides you with a simple, yet powerful way to show your portfolio and be seen by the right people in the industry.PerksNewsletterJobsCoursesGrowth Hackers
Entrepreneurship, Marketing
High quality trending articles on growth hacking, marketing channels, user acquisition, engagement, product launch and more.150K members
ForumEventsJobsThe Cage
Bdsm
Friendly, Fun, Kink Positive, BDSM Community. The Cage is a community and social networking platform focused on BDSM and kink-related discussions.ForumChatEventsThe SaaS Community
Saas, Entrepreneurship
The purpose of this community is to help and inspire each other in SaaS. Benefit from networking, expert speakers, SaaS events, and in-depth posts on SaaS metrics.3K members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletterJobsCoursesTiny Buddha
Spirituality
Tiny Buddha is about reflecting on simple wisdom and learning new ways to apply it to our complex lives, complete with responsibilities, struggles, dreams, and relationships. This is a place to ask questions, share information, and have discussions on anything related to Spirituality.7.0M members
ForumNewsletterDreamphilic
Ai Art
Frontpage for AI-generated content1K members
ForumFoundersList
Entrepreneurship, Cofounder, Ideation
FoundersList is an open platform for founders to connect, launch ideas/products, find recommended professionals/service-providers, events, cofounders and more. It is a co-founder site where people can create listings for a co-founder like they would for job ads. Founderslist offers helpful tools applicable to new founders.500 members
ForumChatEventsNewsletterJobsCoursesTalkFood
Food, Cooking
A community forum dedicated to discussions about various food-related topics. It provides a platform for members to share recipes, cooking tips, restaurant recommendations, and engage in discussions about food and culinary experiences.33K members
ForumThe Full Stack
Software Development, Web Development
Make code not war ♥️ Discover and connect with developers sharing their work5K members
ForumChatEventsNewsletterJobsSephora
Makeup, Beauty
Sephora's Beauty Insider Community is an online community where the beauty obsessed and beauty newbies alike can gather virtually to ask questions, join challenges, share their looks, swap tips, try out new products, and connect virtually with other Sephora shoppers. This is a forum where you can ask questions, get advice, and talk about all things beauty!6.0M members
ForumPerksEventsNewsletterSaaS Friends
Saas, Entrepreneurship
SaaS Friends is a free-to-join private community exclusively for SaaS founders over $20k MRR (monthly recurring revenue)400 members
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What are Independent Communities?
These are online communities that are hosted on their own platform, and not a part of a social network like Reddit/Facebook/LinkedIn, or communication platform like Slack and Discord. Although they may utilize community software like circle.so to implement the features of their community, they have their own brand and identity.