48 Best Indie Business Communities (Updated Jun 2026)

48 Online Communities for Indie Hackers

Updated 6/11/2026

#1
Lunadio
on discord
Turn your side project into profitable business. Private community of indie hackers helping each other build startups.
1K members
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295 views / month
#2
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
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112 views / month
#3
SoloFounders
on discord
Solofounders is a server for networking with fellow founders. Join our weekly zoom calls and share insights and advice.
30 members
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86 views / month
#4
AIMidUs
on slack
A community for solopreneurs and AI Enthusiasts.
1K members
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97 views / month
#5
LATAM Makers
on discord
This a community for makers based in Latin America or Spain.
244 members
Chat
58 views / month
#6
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
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43 views / month
#7
YOLO Founders
on discord
The founder journey will never be lonely again. Network and grow together!
655 members
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31 views / month
#8
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
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Paid
44 views / month
#9
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
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197 views / month
#10
Indie Women
on slack
An accountability-themed meetup turned slack channel for Indie Women.
221 members
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14 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 ET
1K members
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34 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
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Paid
20 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
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24 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.
"This course by @dvassallo will show you: How to think about starting a business; How to reduce the risk of failure; How to use randomness to your advantage. Truly one of the best courses I've taken."
4K members
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28 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
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16 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
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13 views / month
Marketers Chat
on slack
Marketers Chat is for the indie marketer. No BS here!
Chat
12 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
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31 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
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15 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
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8 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
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25 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
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22 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
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12 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
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10 views / month
r/indiebiz
on reddit
A Reddit for small businesses, independents and startups to offer and share services, products, resources, and insight.
39K members
Forum
10 views / month
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.
Chat
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13 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
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14 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.
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8 views / month
r/thesidehustle
on reddit
r/thesidehustle is a community for the discussion of sidehustles and for receiving relevant feedback on newly developed projects/services.
235K members
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12 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
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7 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.
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8 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
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8 views / month
Founder Summit
A remote community of founders building calm profitable sustainable companies.
Apply
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8 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
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5 views / month
Astramind
Astramind is a platform for Makers, SaaS founders to build in public and engage with fellow makers who get to use their products. Get engagement from customers & makers for what you build right from day one.
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5 views / month

More communities (13)

Logo	Community	Members
	CtrlAltCC Easily find lesser known startup tools, see how other makers use them and share your own!	1K
	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
	Crowdfunding Academy on Guild The Crowdfunding Academy is a peer support network for anyone interested in crowdfunding. Our mission includes uncovering the benefits and potential pitfalls of crowdfunding, sharing real life experiences and learning from experts who have successfully run crowdfunding campaigns.	350
	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.	—
	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 builders	110
	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.	—
	Open Makers Open Makers is a community of makers who #BuildInPublic. Looking to join the "Open Maker / Build in Public" movement? We make it easy to share your profile and projects with fellow makers.	50
	Indiependent on Superwave The Indiependent is a a community for indiependent founders and creators finding their own path. What makes it different? 🤣 it's led by Rosie Sherry 🤝 it exists with the intention to stay active and create deeper connections 😬 30 days of inactivity will get you booted 🤗 it's not about getting big, it's about participating and building relationships 💵 the fee is lifetime, subject to you staying active 🔄 you can rejoin anytime and we will welcome you, but you must pay the fee again	100
	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.	—
	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
	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
	The Hiiv (beehiiv) on Slack The official Slack community for beehiiv creators to exchange insights and growth strategies.	—
	LION Publishers Slack on Slack Slack group for independent news publishers to share advice on newsletter business models.	—

FAQ

: Communities for solo founders and small teams building sustainable businesses without taking on investment. You will find a mix of Slack groups, Discord servers, and independent forums covering everything from getting your first paying customers to building productized services and small info product businesses.
: Hive Index lists 48 Indie Business communities on this page. Most listings with size data are medium (33%) or large (23%).
: Independent Platforms (13), Slack (12), and Discord (8) are the most common here. Click a platform icon above the list to open a filtered view.
: Live Chat is the most common (73%). Others that show up often include online/offline events and newsletter. Use the feature filters above the list to narrow results.
: 28 of 48 (58%) are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: On Hive Index, the default Popular sort surfaces Lunadio, Early Stage Founders, SoloFounders, and AIMidUs first. Popularity reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, not a universal quality score. Use the sort menu for Ratings, Largest, or Newest.
: Wannabe Entrepreneur Space, Hacker Cabin, and Indie Masterminds have the highest review scores on this page. Switch the sort to Ratings to see the full order. Reviews come from Hive Index members and reflect their experience, not our editorial ranking.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for topic relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available. Member counts are approximate. Popular reflects visitor interest in communities on the site, with richer profiles breaking ties. Ratings, Largest, and Newest use review scores, reported member counts, and listing age instead.