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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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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
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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 - #4
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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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
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The 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
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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
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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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OneHallyu
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
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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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Drooble
Music
The Social Network For Musicians! A revolutionary approach to networking and music promotion104K members
ForumTravellerspoint
Travel
Travellerspoint helps you discover new destinations, organise your trips and share your travel experiences1.1M members
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Fetish.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!ForumChat
The Cage
Bdsm
Friendly, Fun, Kink Positive, BDSM Community. The Cage is a community and social networking platform focused on BDSM and kink-related discussions.ForumChatEvents
GirlBoss
Entrepreneurship, Female Founders
The Girlboss Professional Network is a platform built for ambitious women. It’s a place for entrepreneurs, career pros, side-hustlers, freelancers, and gig-economy workers to ask questions, exchange ideas, and connect with each other. We’re creating a space for you to share not just what you do, but who you are.ForumEventsNewsletterJobs
Thursday Night Sales
Sales
The #1 Weekly Virtual Sales Happy Hour!ChatEvents
Habitica
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
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TalkFood
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
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The 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
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F6S
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
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Cloudy Nights Forum
Astronomy
Cloudy Nights Forum is dedicated to provide a forum where you can ask your questions or provide answers based on your experience, and perhaps most importantly, the site publishes reviews of astronomical scopes and equipment as written by experienced observers in the amateur astronomy community.180K members
ForumEventsNewsletterElectronics 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
ForumAll 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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Tiny 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
ForumNewsletterMetapix Art
Ai Art
Metapix art, an AI community hosting AI Art Lounges where community members can share and discover new ways to create with AI.(1)35 members
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Indie Hackers
Entrepreneurship, Indie Business
Join the Indie Hackers community. Learn from the founders behind hundreds of profitable online businesses, and connect with others who are starting and growing their own companies.140K members
ForumApplyPerksEventsNewsletterJobsBDSM.com
Bdsm
BDSM offers a rich and varied community experience with over 32,000 groups to join offering more than 2.1 million discussions. There are bondage groups arranged by special interest and kink as well as by location meaning that you should be able to find one that suits you.752K members
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OnlineBookClub
Reading
OnlineBookClub.org is a free site for readers that has been around for over 10 years.1.0M members
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Allkpop
K Pop
A popular English-language website that primarily focuses on providing news, updates, and information related to K-pop (Korean pop music) and the entertainment industry in South Korea. The website covers a wide range of topics, including news about K-pop groups, solo artists, music releases, celebrity gossip, concert information, music show rankings, and more.230K members
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SaaS Invaders
Saas
A Kick SaaS Community. All topics on SaaS growth, marketing, customer success, product, sales and business.ForumPerksHR.com
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Browse our forums for all of your HR needs.2.0M members
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Gumvue
Ai Art
AI Artists Community. Redefining Art with Generative AI. Bringing together AI Artists on the same platform.3K members
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FoundersList
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
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The Blog Societies
Blogging, Social Media
A cultivated community for influencers to unlock the resources, connections and tools necessary to grow their blogs140 members
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Finance, Accounting
Resources and Community for Finance Professionals2.0M 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.
