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.
Topics Discussed in Independent Platforms Communities
Stack Overflow
Software Development
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers. Our products and tools help developers and technologists in life and at work. These products include Stack Overflow for Teams, Stack Overflow Advertising, and Stack Overflow for Talent and Jobs. Stack Overflow for Teams, our core SaaS collaboration product, is helping thousands of companies around the world as the transition to remote work, address business continuity challenges, and undergo digital transformation. Whether it’s on Stack Overflow or within Stack Overflow for Teams, community is at the center of all that we do.100.0M members
ForumJobsSeeking Alpha
Investing, Stocks
Seeking Alpha is the world’s largest investing community. Powered by the wisdom and diversity of crowdsourcing - millions of passionate investors connect daily to discover and share new investing ideas, discuss the latest news, debate the merits of stocks, and make informed investment decisions. Available on mobile, tablet or desktop, 20 million people use Seeking Alpha every month.20.0M members
ForumNewsletterCode Project
Software Development
Code Project is a community for computer programmers with articles on different topics and programming languages such as web development, software development, C++, Java, and other topics.14.7M members
ForumEventsBehance
Art
Behance is a platform for creative professionals around the world to showcase their own work and to discover the creative work of others through three key features: Search (Discover), Live, and Jobs.10.0M members
PerksJobsCoursesThe Student Room
Students
The Student Room is the UK's largest online student community.10.0M members
ForumKaggle
Data Science
Kaggle offers a no-setup, customizable, Jupyter Notebooks environment. Access free GPUs and a huge repository of community published data & code.7.8M members
ForumCoursesMinecraft Forum
Gaming
Everything Minecraft! Talk about talk about mapping/modding on any Minecraft edition and show off your clips, live streams, fan art, and more.6.6M members
ForumChatHacker News
Entrepreneurship, Tech, Software Development
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.5.0M members
ForumJobsHabitica
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
ChatBitcoin Talk
Crypto, Bitcoin
Forum for all things Bitcoin3.4M members
ForumStocktwits
Investing, Stocks
See what’s happening now in the markets. See what actual investors and traders are saying in real time about the stocks, crypto, futures, and forex you care about for free.3.0M members
ForumStartup 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
ForumApplyEventsWebflow
No Code
We're empowering everyone to create for the web — and leading impactful, fulfilling lives while we do it.2.0M members
ForumPerksEventsProformative
Finance
Resources and Community for Finance Professionals2.0M members
ForumEventsNewsletterCoursesHR.com
Hr
Browse our forums for all of your HR needs.2.0M members
ForumCollege Confidential
Students
Join the world’s largest college-focused community. With millions of users each year, and over 22 million posts across thousands of topics, CC is the place you can turn to with questions. Whether you’re looking for tips on getting into your dream school, info on academic programs, or recommendations for the best schools for vegans, our community of students, alumni, professionals, parents — or even your future classmates — has answers.1.5M members
ForumNewsletterIGN Boards
Gaming
Lobbies for Nintendo, Playstation, and XBox games.1.4M members
ForumBubble
No Code
Bubble is the most powerful no-code platform, empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps.1.3M members
ForumPerksCoursesNintendo Life
Gaming
Welcome to the Nintendo Life Forums, the place you can discuss everything from the world of Nintendo.1.3M members
ForumNewsletterProduct Hunt
Entrepreneurship, Tech
Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.1.3M members
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