17 paid Indie Business communities
Updated 8/8/2024
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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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."I just joined @dvassallo’s course for cohort 5. The Discord is FULL of amazing makers. It’s like a curated group of the best from Twitter, plus more interaction and value."8K members
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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
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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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Founder Summit
A remote community of founders building calm profitable sustainable companies.ApplyPairingEventsNewsletterPaid6 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.ChatPerksEventsNewsletterPaid6 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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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
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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 again100 members
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Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (<20 members)
- Small: 1 communities (20-100 members)
- Medium: 8 communities (100-1,000 members)
- Large: 4 communities (1,000-10,000 members)
- Huge: 0 communities (10,000-100,000 members)
- Massive: 1 communities (100,000-1M members)
- Gigantic: 0 communities (1M+ members)
Community features
- 17Paid CommunityHas a paid membership or premium tier
- 13Live ChatReal-time chat for members
- 13NewsletterPublishes a member or topic newsletter
- 13Online/Offline EventsHosts online or offline events
- 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
