46 Online Communities for Indie Hackers
Updated 5/12/2026
Lunadio
on discord
Turn your side project into profitable business. Private community of indie hackers helping each other build startups.1K members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletter397 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
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses149 views / month
AIMidUs
on slack
A community for solopreneurs and AI Enthusiasts.1K members
ChatEventsNewsletterJobs128 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
ChatEventsNewsletter84 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
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidTools50 views / month
LATAM Makers
on discord
This a community for makers based in Latin America or Spain.244 members
Chat49 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."I love how Upen openly shares value, it's a no-brainer to be a part of this community. "500 members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid50 views / month
YOLO Founders
on discord
The founder journey will never be lonely again. Network and grow together!655 members
ChatPerksEvents26 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
ForumPerksNewsletterPaidTools41 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
ForumChatEvents34 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
ForumApplyPerksEventsNewsletterJobs218 views / month
Hacker Cabin
on discord
We are a small community and we plan to stay that way. Amongst our members are people that have built projects with thousands of monthly visitors, had projects acquired for 5 and 6 figure sums, and more. The founder has worked tirelessly to create an open, welcoming and trusted space where people can get support in their maker journey, sharing both the high and lows, and well as gaining practical insights along the way. Whether you're launching your first product or scaling your tenth, you'll find people here who understand the journey and can help you navigate it.50 members
ForumApplyPerksEventsNewsletterPaid33 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
ChatApplyEventsPaid10 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
ChatEventsNewsletter17 views / month
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."Taking this course and joining this Discord has been an incredible learning journey. Top notch, creative, generous, engaged people coming together to figure out how to design work around life. Makings solopreneurship not so solo."4K members
ChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses23 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
ChatPerks10 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
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
ForumPerksEventsPaid9 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
ChatApplyPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses24 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
ChatApplyPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaid6 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
ForumChatEventsNewsletterPaidCourses24 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.ChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid14 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
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
ForumChatNewsletter6 views / month
Smarter Founders
Unlike expensive founder networks with restrictive admission criteria, Smarter Founders is FREE and open to all who take our Founders Pledge. United by our entrepreneurial spirit, we welcome all founders from all corners of the globe. Members join Smarter Founders to share our hard-won knowledge, ask for help when we need it and help others when we can.ForumApplyPerks11 views / month
Indie Women
on slack
An accountability-themed meetup turned slack channel for Indie Women.221 members
ChatEvents9 views / month
Not Another Slack
on slack
Not Another Slack is a community dedicated to people interested in or running their own side project. From creating their own website to building apps, whatever it is that is outside of their day job, we're here to celebrate and help others to build and launch their own side projects.117 members
Chat5 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.ForumChatApplyEventsNewsletterPaid5 views / month
100DaysOfNoCode
on slack
We’re an online campus helping creators, career switchers and professionals get started in no-code with practical, engaging and effective learning experiences.600 members
ForumPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses12 views / month
Founder Summit
A remote community of founders building calm profitable sustainable companies.ApplyPairingEventsNewsletterPaid5 views / month
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Profitable Directories
A directory needs to sell 84 premium listings at $299/yr or 125 at $199/yr to generate $25k. You can then list the directory for sale on MicroAquire for 3-4x ($100k). So $125k total. In this course I cover the strategy I'm using to build and grow 20 directories to do just this. By purchasing this course, you get access to my private community with 110 other directory builders110 members
ChatPaidCourses5 views / month
The Femmepreneur Society
on skool
An online and in-person community for female entrepreneurs ready to connect, network, and collaborate through monthly social events, business tools, and expert webinars.ChatEventsCourses9 views / month
r/indiebiz
on reddit
A Reddit for small businesses, independents and startups to offer and share services, products, resources, and insight.38K members
Forum5 views / month
Marketers Chat
on slack
Marketers Chat is for the indie marketer. No BS here!Chat7 views / month
CtrlAltCC
Easily find lesser known startup tools, see how other makers use them and share your own!1K members
Newsletter3 views / month
FAQ
Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (<20 members)
- Small: 6 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: 10 communities
- Discord: 8 communities
- Reddit: 4 communities
- Circle: 2 communities
- Heartbeat: 2 communities
- Skool: 2 communities
- Campfire: 1 communities
- Facebook: 1 communities