What are product management communities?

Communities for product managers and aspiring PMs covering roadmapping, discovery, stakeholder management, and career moves. Slack groups and independent forums are the main venues, with discussion ranging from frameworks and templates to the real-world messiness of shipping software with competing priorities.

Where do most product management communities live?

Slack is the most common platform in this report (43% of 30 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

97% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical product management community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 45K members and the median is 8K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (60%). Others that show up often include live chat, online/offline events, and job board.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Product Management topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Product Management Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 30 product management communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: product management communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated 2024-12-06

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Communities: 30
Platforms: 6
Avg members: 45K
Median members: 8K

Where Product Management Communities Are Hosted

Slack
13(43%)
LinkedIn
6(20%)
Facebook
3(10%)
Quora
3(10%)
Reddit
2(7%)
Discord
2(7%)

Format mix

Chat communities
15(50%)
Forum / feed-based
8(27%)
Other platforms
7(23%)

Chat communities is most common (50%), but forum / feed-based is also well represented (27%).

Slack leads, but LinkedIn and Facebook also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
3(10%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
6(20%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
7(23%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
9(30%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
5(17%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
0(0%)

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (45K vs 8K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Product Management Differs From Other Categories

Product Management is more free-to-join, and smaller, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Product Management	Hive Index average
Free to join	97%	85%
Median members	8K	24K
Average members	45K	652K
Paid or apply-to-join	3%	15%
Live chat	50%	40%
Discord share	7%	16%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
60%
Live Chat
50%
Online/Offline Events
33%
Job Board
27%

Niche Features

Member Perks
13%
Newsletter
13%
Courses
10%
Pairing
7%
Paid Community
3%
Tools
3%

Live Chat appears on 50% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 56

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Slack	13	43%	19	34%
LinkedIn	6	20%	5	9%
Facebook	3	10%	3	5%
Quora	3	10%	4	7%
Reddit	2	7%	2	4%
Discord	2	7%	23	41%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord gets 41% of clicks but only 7% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
42(75%)
Forum / feed-based
9(16%)
Other platforms
5(9%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
42(75%)
Forum
39(70%)
Online/Offline Events
34(61%)
Job Board
26(46%)
Pairing
16(29%)
Member Perks
12(21%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Large
24(43%)
Medium
12(21%)
Huge
10(18%)
Massive
6(11%)
Small
4(7%)

Top-clicked listings

FoundIt
15(27%)
Enable3 Community
8(14%)
Product School
3(5%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Trends

Founded year

2007

2008

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2010

2011

2014

2016

2017

2021

2022

2023

11 communities have no founding year on file.

Most listed groups were founded around 2008.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Product Management. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•Last updated 2024-12-06

FAQ

: Communities for product managers and aspiring PMs covering roadmapping, discovery, stakeholder management, and career moves. Slack groups and independent forums are the main venues, with discussion ranging from frameworks and templates to the real-world messiness of shipping software with competing priorities.
: Slack is the most common platform in this report (43% of 30 listings).
: 97% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 45K members and the median is 8K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (60%). Others that show up often include live chat, online/offline events, and job board.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Product Management topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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