What are cofounder communities?

Communities for founders looking to find a co-founder, early team member, or collaborator. Covers founder matchmaking platforms, Facebook groups, and Discord servers where entrepreneurs share ideas, seek technical or business partners, and help each other validate early-stage concepts.

Where do most cofounder communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (50% of 20 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

70% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical cofounder community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 279K members and the median is 3K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (95%). Others that show up often include job board, newsletter, and online/offline events.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Cofounder topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Cofounder Communities Report: Stats, Platforms, Trends &...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 20 cofounder communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: cofounder listings cluster on Independent Platforms, while a few large groups pull member averages up.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 20
Platforms: 5
Avg members: 279K
Median members: 3K

Where Cofounder Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
10(50%)
LinkedIn
4(20%)
Reddit
3(15%)
Facebook
2(10%)
Discord
1(5%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
15(75%)
Other platforms
4(20%)
Chat communities
1(5%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (75%), but other platforms is also well represented (20%).

Independent Platforms leads with 50%, but LinkedIn also has a meaningful share (20%).

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
1(5%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
4(20%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
5(25%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
6(30%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
2(10%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(5%)

1 community has unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (279K vs 3K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Cofounder Differs From Other Categories

Cofounder is less free-to-join, smaller, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Cofounder	Hive Index average
Free to join	70%	84%
Median members	3K	25K
Average members	279K	668K
Paid or apply-to-join	30%	16%
Live chat	25%	41%
Discord share	5%	17%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
95%
Job Board
50%
Newsletter
35%
Online/Offline Events
35%
Courses
25%
Live Chat
25%
Paid Community
15%
Pairing
15%

Niche Features

Member Perks
5%

Forum appears on 95% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 67

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Independent Platforms	10	50%	9	13%
LinkedIn	4	20%	7	10%
Reddit	3	15%	4	6%
Facebook	2	10%	38	57%
Discord	1	5%	9	13%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Facebook gets 57% of clicks but only 10% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Forum / feed-based
51(76%)
Chat communities
9(13%)
Other platforms
7(10%)

Most-clicked features

Forum
67(100%)
Job Board
43(64%)
Newsletter
8(12%)
Online/Offline Events
8(12%)
Live Chat
7(10%)
Courses
6(9%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Huge
49(73%)
Tiny
9(13%)
Medium
5(7%)
Large
3(4%)
Massive
1(1%)

Top-clicked listings

Find Your Co-founders or Investors
34(51%)
Hustle Cafe
9(13%)
Co-Founder
6(9%)

Most clicks go to forum / feed-based and chat communities communities.

Trends

Founded year

2005

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2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2019

2020

3 communities have no founding year on file.

Most listed groups were founded around 2020.

Community Quality & Ratings

Only 1 community has ratings so far, so read this as a small sample.

5.0 average rating across 1 community.

Rated examples

F6S
Independent Platforms · 5.0 stars · 4.6M members

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Cofounder. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for founders looking to find a co-founder, early team member, or collaborator. Covers founder matchmaking platforms, Facebook groups, and Discord servers where entrepreneurs share ideas, seek technical or business partners, and help each other validate early-stage concepts.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (50% of 20 listings).
: 70% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 279K members and the median is 3K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (95%). Others that show up often include job board, newsletter, and online/offline events.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Cofounder topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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