A curated list of awesome communities related to creating, running and being successful at startups.
| Rating | Description. |
|---|---|
| Unrated. | |
| 🌶️ | Good knowledge base, infrequent job postings |
| 🌶️🌶️ | Engineers / founders actively seeking advice, occassional job postings |
| 🌶️🌶️🌶️ | Frequent job postings and lively discussions |
| 💵 | Confirmed contract (me or others) |
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Gen Z VCs slack community: A global collective of 22,000+ Gen Z VCs, founders, angel investors, operators and aspiring VCs… the future of innovation.
YC co-founder matching 🌶️: Match with co-founders based on your preferences for interests, skills, location, and more, and start building your company.
Rands leadership slack server 🌶️🌶️🌶️: Invite only, wide range of topics that cover leadership & tech.
Furlough discord server: Wide topic discord server for tech, ecommerce, general business, social-media.
r/Agency discord server 🌶️: r/Agency discord server for all agency founders.
r/saas 💵: Place to discuss SaaS problems and solutions.
r/EntrepreneurRideAlong: Solve issues, network without spamming, talk about the growth of your business
Hacker's News: Forum like discussion board, mostly focused on VC backed startups. Moderated by the Ycombinator team.
Lobsters: Similar to Hacker's News, 100% less Ycombinator. propaganda.
everthing marketplaces: Community for marketplace founders & leaders.
Accountability whatsapp group: Daily chats to hold new entrepreneurs accountable.
Stripe discord server 💵: get 1:1 developer help from the stripe's internal dev teams.
OpenAI discord server 🌶️🌶️: Talk about anything gpt related topics, from general discussion to prompt-engineering examples to API dev help.
Retool discord server: No-code app builder. Get help, get news and talk to other builders.
Dev.to: open forum for tech help
Tailwind 💵: Discord server to get help on everything related to tailwind.
Nextjs 🌶️🌶️: Discord server for nextjs help.
Nextjs job board 💵: Nextjs help + job board.
Nuxt 🌶️: Discord server for nuxtjs help.
Adalo: Build Custom Responsive Apps & Publish Anywhere — No Coding Required
Paid communities are all the rage right now.
Hampton: Private network for high-growth founders, will set you back $8,500/yr but apparently it's already full with over 3,000 applicants.
Chief: Private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
Demandcurve: Newsletter, course, and a legit community of founders/mentors.
Operators guide: One of the best community for builders, a safe space for exclusive talent to conjure, question, and create.
Founders Cafe: For early stage solo(ish) founders who want to raise from top funds like YC.
Kizuna discord 🌶️: Invitation only community for discussion about business, marketing, sales, storytelling.
Helpful local communities for the travelling founders.
Playa del Carmen whatsapp group: Great for digital nomad spending time in PdC. Weekly meetups socializing about variety of startup related topics, ranging from taxes, to founder fireside chats, to deep-tech discussions.
Bogota, Colombia whatsapp group
Medellin, Colombia communities
Braintrust discord server 💵: User-owned talent network. Find jobs, get hired.
a.team: Community of for-hire talents that work together to deliver on great projects.
The Loop slack server: Semi-active channel that curates jobs across the industry, and connects investors, founders and developers.
Go slack server 💵: Get Go announcements, get help on dev, find contrats/full-time jobs.
Toronto JS slack server 🌶️🌶️: Ask for help, talk about JS community in Toronto, find jobs.
YCombinator startup job board 💵: Work at ycombinator startup job board
Who's hiring?: Posted to hacker's news every start of the month, includes both full-time and contractor roles.
OnDeck: curated community designed to increase the odds of building a successful venture-backed company.
r/ExperiencedFounders: Curated community of experienced founders who shares their experience and have in-depth discussions.
Product Hunt: Get "hunted", get "upvotes", Brag about your "#1 on product hunt" badge on your marketing site.
the hive index: curated list of top online communities. gummysearch: search and get stats on trending subreddits. flyertalk: Jan Koum first pitched Whatsapp back in 2007 to the community, how cool is this?
if anyone have experience with the following list of job boards, please help me add a description and honest review, there are a lot of these things around and I don't want to be recommending bad ones.
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