23 Indie Business forum communities
Updated 8/8/2024
Lunadio
on discord
Turn your side project into profitable business. Private community of indie hackers helping each other build startups.1K members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletter217 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
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses106 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’m a huge fan of these newsletters. I only subscribed a few months ago, but quickly read the entire history of previous issues. I’ve taken away valuable insights and inspiration from a lot of them and I always look forward to the next issue. Great job and congrats on the launch!"500 members
ForumChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid38 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
ForumChatEvents33 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
ForumPerksEvents13 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
ForumChatPairingPerksEventsNewsletterPaidTools26 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
ForumPerksNewsletterPaidTools50 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
ForumApplyPerksEventsNewsletterJobs245 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.ForumEventsNewsletter9 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
Forum12 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.ForumChatApplyEventsNewsletterPaid10 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
ForumPerksEventsNewsletterPaidCourses11 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
ForumChatEventsNewsletterPaidCourses22 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
ForumChatNewsletter8 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
ForumChatApplyPerksNewsletterPaid
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
ForumPerksEventsPaid7 views / month
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 members
ForumChatEventsNewsletter8 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.ForumApplyPerks6 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.238K members
ForumChat9 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
ForumChat5 views / month
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 members
ForumNewsletter3 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.ForumPairing6 views / month
r/indiebiz
on reddit
A Reddit for small businesses, independents and startups to offer and share services, products, resources, and insight.40K members
Forum8 views / month
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Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (<20 members)
- Small: 3 communities (20-100 members)
- Medium: 4 communities (100-1,000 members)
- Large: 8 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
- 23ForumThreaded discussions and forum-style posts
- 14NewsletterPublishes a member or topic newsletter
- 13Online/Offline EventsHosts online or offline events
- 12Live ChatReal-time chat for members
- 11Member PerksOffers member perks, discounts, or benefits
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