48 Online Communities for Indie Hackers
Updated 8/4/2026
Small Bets
on campfire
Interested in entrepreneurship? Forget about starting a company. Try making $1,000 with a small project first. We learn a lot more from small wins than from big failures. When you join Small Bets you'll find a support network ready to help you get your first small wins, along with regular live workshops to teach and inspire you."You don't need another course but this by @dvassallo legit freed me from self-sabotage and procrastination. It's value dense, affordable and the community is still small and quite active."8K members
ChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses215 views / month
Lunadio
on discord
Turn your side project into profitable business. Private community of indie hackers helping each other build startups.1K members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletter120 views / month
AIMidUs
on slack
A community for solopreneurs and AI Enthusiasts.1K members
ChatEventsNewsletterJobs96 views / month
Early Stage Founders
on discord
Early Stage Founders is an online community focused on helping SaaS and service founders find their first customers, scale up to full-time revenue, and earn a living with their online businesses. ESF combines Growth Systems, coaching, and community to give members everything they need to get their online businesses off the ground - backed by a 100% money back guarantee.3K members
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses80 views / month
Pigeon Hack
on slack
A community of 600+ micro-preneurs and #indiemakers focused on audience first growth and general sales stuff.700 members
ChatPerks39 views / month
Micro SaaS HQ
on circle
A calmer ecosystem for Micro SaaS Builders. Micro SaaS HQ brings an entire ecosystem to you to help you build profitable SaaS Ideas."Congrats on the launch! I’ve got to say as a recent Pro subscriber, the community you’ve created has given me so much life and inspiration to go test the market on a couple SaaS ideas of my own. You’re always present and provide so much wisdom and feedback. I couldn’t imagine my life without the newsletters or community anymore! Hands down best resource for starting your own SaaS! 🙌🎉"500 members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid48 views / month
SoloFounders
on discord
Solofounders is a server for networking with fellow founders. Join our weekly zoom calls and share insights and advice.30 members
ChatEventsNewsletter43 views / month
LATAM Makers
on discord
This a community for makers based in Latin America or Spain.244 members
Chat46 views / month
Indie Women
on slack
An accountability-themed meetup turned slack channel for Indie Women.221 members
ChatEvents21 views / month
Marketers Chat
on slack
Marketers Chat is for the indie marketer. No BS here!Chat33 views / month
No-Code Exits Club
on heartbeat
Challenge, community, content and connections to help you start building & launching a product with No-Code and increase the odds to exit.25 members
ForumChatEventsNewsletterPaidCourses18 views / month
Female Entrepreneur Community
on skool
A global network of 250,000+ women in business, including coaches and service providers, focused on visibility, AI-supported systems, and collaboration.ChatCourses11 views / month
Trends Pro
on circle
Meet Successful Founders and Investors Join successful founders and investors such as Ben Tossell, Hiten Shah, Rob Walling, Rosie Sherry, Tyler Tringas, Lenny Rachitsky, Shripriya Mahesh, Arvid Kahl and more. Discover What’s Next Get the next 52 weeks of Trends Pro reports. Each report saves you more than 50+ hours of market research. Learn From the Best Hear from experts in our community. Get your questions answered and collaborate with others on topics such as Micro Private Equity, Micro-SaaS, Digital Products and more. See Around Corners See topics weeks, and sometimes months, before others. Join us as we collaborate, share predictions and find opportunities together. Daily Standups Get feedback, share wins, get support on launches, meet new friends, ask for help and share your work. Stay accountable alongside a group of successful founders. Weekly Meetups Hit a 10-Day Standup Streak and Join Trends Tribe Every Monday @ 5PM ET1K members
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidTools23 views / month
Indie Masterminds
on heartbeat
A tight-knit community of like minded solopreneurs, creators and indie hackers. Building independent bootstrapped businesses. Keeping each other accountable, sharing honest feedback and supporting each other in their journey.160 members
ChatApplyPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses20 views / month
Starter Story
Learn how people are starting successful businesses. 4,000+ case studies with founders who built their businesses to thousands of customers.235K members
ForumPerksNewsletterPaidTools25 views / month
Women Make
Women Make is a safe space for women entrepreneurs and makers. Find support, get feedback, help each other out, share your journey, celebrate wins together.ForumEventsNewsletter10 views / month
indieFamily
on discord
indieFamily is a thriving community of individuals who are passionate about building sustainable and profitable businesses without outside funding. Our members come from a diverse range of backgrounds, but share a common goal: to grow their businesses and support each other along the way.175 members
ChatEventsNewsletter14 views / month
Ramen Club
on slack
Ramen Club is the Slack community, content and tools getting bootstrapped founders to ramen profitable, and beyond. "The accountability, advice and deeper bonds I get from Ramen Club have been pivotal to me reaching $3.5k MRR for Tiiny Host." - Philip Baretto, Founder, Tiiny Host"120 members
ChatApplyPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaid26 views / month
Founders Cafe
Co-work with founders from Stanford, YC, Harvard, & more. Our cohort co-works together every day. Shoot the shit. Share our struggles. Develop lifelong friends.120 members
ChatApplyEventsPaid18 views / month
YOLO Founders
on discord
The founder journey will never be lonely again. Network and grow together!655 members
ChatPerksEvents13 views / month
Verk Community
on slack
Stay updated on the latest AI employee additions to our digital workforce. Engage in lively discussions about the future of work, the AI workforce and its evolving landscape.43 members
ForumPerksEvents7 views / month
IndieStack
We're the Private Community for Indie Founders. Building, launching, running, and growing digital products has its own unique challenges. We're a community that's sharing our experiences, insights, and solutions about digital products. Our goal is to help individuals make a living off what they create online.ForumChatApplyEventsNewsletterPaid9 views / month
r/indiewebdev
on reddit
A community for independent web developers of all skill levels, building personal or experimental websites and tools. Share projects, get feedback, discuss web standards, and connect with like-minded creators who are passionate about shaping the web outside the mainstream.9K members
ForumChat10 views / month
Build Sell 30
on discord
The free 30 day Build & Sell startup challenge. The rules are simple: build and sell a business in 30 days!600 members
ChatPairing14 views / month
Productize Community
on facebook
The place to discuss anything related to productized services and ManyRequests, a software to build and manage your productized service. Agency owners / freelancers / marketers / bootstrappers / startup founders --> Turn your services into a scalable, profitable, business. Launched or running a productized service? Feel free to ask for feedback as well as share your milestones.5K members
Forum13 views / month
The Hiiv (beehiiv)
on slack
The official Slack community for beehiiv creators to exchange insights and growth strategies.Chat11 views / month
LION Publishers Slack
on slack
Slack group for independent news publishers to share advice on newsletter business models.Chat8 views / month
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Everything Marketplaces
on slack
We're a community sharing insights & about everything marketplaces. Building, launching, and running online marketplaces has its own unique challenges. We're a community that's sharing our experiences, insights, and problem solving about everything marketplaces.ChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid11 views / month
WIP
Join a community of makers shipping together. From first-time entrepreneurs to solo-founders bootstrapping $300,000/year companies. Build better habits by surrounding yourself with productive makers. Get advice & feedback from experienced bootstrappers. Stay accountable by publicly sharing your progress.2K members
ForumPerksEventsPaid10 views / month
Makerlog
Makerlog works by logging your daily project-related tasks, earning streaks (consecutive days of work), and interacting with other makers to get feedback or early users.8K members
ForumChatEvents19 views / month
r/growinpublic
on reddit
All things startup related. A community to discuss starting a business, new business ideas, building your business, building a brand, get business feedback.2K members
ForumChatNewsletter7 views / month
CtrlAltCC
Easily find lesser known startup tools, see how other makers use them and share your own!1K members
Newsletter6 views / month
Indie Hackers
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
ForumApplyPerksEventsNewsletterJobs222 views / month
MegaMaker
on meeps
MegaMaker is for geeks who ❤️ making things. We help developers, designers, and product people: Make better stuff on the web. Earn a better living from what they make. For some folks, “earning a better living” will mean bootstrapping a product business, but for others, it might mean building a side-project that earns $2k / year and helps them take their family to Disneyland. Basically, we’re web workers who want more than a regular 9-5.774 members
ForumChatApplyPerksNewsletterPaid8 views / month
Wannabe Entrepreneur Space
on slack
Bootstrapping a company or a side project is not an easy job! You might feel lonely or lost. There are always millions of questions in your mind and almost zero answers… Joining our WBE space can probably help!60 members
ChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterTools10 views / month
FAQ
Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (<20 members)
- Small: 5 communities (20-100 members)
- Medium: 16 communities (100-1,000 members)
- Large: 11 communities (1,000-10,000 members)
- Huge: 1 communities (10,000-100,000 members)
- Massive: 3 communities (100,000-1M members)
- Gigantic: 0 communities (1M+ members)
Community features
Community platforms
- Slack: 12 communities
- Discord: 7 communities
- Reddit: 4 communities
- Circle: 2 communities
- Heartbeat: 2 communities
- Skool: 2 communities
- Campfire: 1 communities
- Facebook: 1 communities