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 (41% of 32 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

94% 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 48K members and the median is 9K. 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 (63%). 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 32 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 periodically

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Communities: 32
Platforms: 7
Avg members: 48K
Median members: 9K

Where Product Management Communities Are Hosted

Slack
13(41%)
LinkedIn
6(19%)
Reddit
3(9%)
Facebook
3(9%)
Quora
3(9%)
Independent Platforms
2(6%)
Discord
1(3%)

Format mix

Chat communities
14(44%)
Forum / feed-based
11(34%)
Other platforms
7(22%)

Chat communities is most common (44%), but forum / feed-based is also well represented (34%).

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

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
3(9%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
4(13%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
8(25%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
10(31%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
5(16%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
0(0%)

2 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (48K vs 9K), 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	94%	84%
Median members	9K	25K
Average members	48K	673K
Paid or apply-to-join	6%	16%
Live chat	44%	41%
Discord share	3%	17%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
63%
Live Chat
44%
Online/Offline Events
28%
Job Board
22%

Niche Features

Newsletter
13%
Courses
9%
Member Perks
9%
Pairing
6%
Paid Community
3%
Requires Application
3%
Tools
3%

Forum appears on 63% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 38

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Slack	13	41%	22	65%
LinkedIn	6	19%	3	9%
Discord	1	3%	9	26%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Slack hosts 41% of listings and 65% of clicks, so supply and interest line up.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
31(91%)
Other platforms
3(9%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
31(91%)
Online/Offline Events
22(65%)
Job Board
16(47%)
Forum
15(44%)
Pairing
10(29%)
Newsletter
8(24%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Large
18(53%)
Huge
6(18%)
Massive
4(12%)
Small
4(12%)
Medium
2(6%)

Top-clicked listings

FoundIt
9(26%)
Product School
3(9%)
Product Led
3(9%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and other platforms communities.

Trends

Founded year

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2021

2022

2023

12 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.

Updated periodically

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 (41% of 32 listings).
: 94% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 48K members and the median is 9K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (63%). 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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