Indie Business Communities

Learn how people are starting successful businesses. 4,000+ case studies with founders who built their businesses to thousands of customers.

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.

How do I make more money on the side of my full time hustle? Growth marketers who know how to do things and have put in the hard work.

A Reddit for small businesses, independents and startups to offer and share services, products, resources, and insight.

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.

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.

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.

All topics front-end and back-end by the web development community. Discord: https://discord.gg/M9PFbx7Cem

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.

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.

A community for solopreneurs and AI Enthusiasts.

Turn your side project into profitable business. Private community of indie hackers helping each other build startups.

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 ET

Easily find lesser known startup tools, see how other makers use them and share your own!

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.

A community of 600+ micro-preneurs and #indiemakers focused on audience first growth and general sales stuff.

The founder journey will never be lonely again. Network and grow together!

The free 30 day Build & Sell startup challenge. The rules are simple: build and sell a business in 30 days!

We’re an online campus helping creators, career switchers and professionals get started in no-code with practical, engaging and effective learning experiences.

A calmer ecosystem for Micro SaaS Builders. Micro SaaS HQ brings an entire ecosystem to you to help you build profitable SaaS Ideas.

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.

This a community for makers based in Latin America or Spain.

An accountability-themed meetup turned slack channel for Indie Women.

Grow in Public is a community to discuss starting businesses, sharing new business ideas, discuss building a brand, and more! We are looking to connect you with other founders who you can build and learn with.

indieFamily is a thriving community of individuals who are passionate about building sustainable and profitable businesses without outside funding. Our members come from a diverse range of backgrounds, but share a common goal: to grow their businesses and support each other along the way.

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.

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.

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"

Not Another Slack is a community dedicated to people interested in or running their own side project. From creating their own website to building apps, whatever it is that is outside of their day job, we're here to celebrate and help others to build and launch their own side projects.

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 builders

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 again

Bootstrapping a company or a side project is not an easy job! You might feel lonely or lost. There are always millions of questions in your mind and almost zero answers… Joining our WBE space can probably help!

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.

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.

Solofounders is a server for networking with fellow founders. Join our weekly zoom calls and share insights and advice.

Challenge, community, content and connections to help you start building & launching a product with No-Code and increase the odds to exit.

Marketers Chat is for the indie marketer. No BS here!

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.

A remote community of founders building calm profitable sustainable companies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An online and in-person community for female entrepreneurs ready to connect, network, and collaborate through monthly social events, business tools, and expert webinars.

A global network of 250,000+ women in business, including coaches and service providers, focused on visibility, AI-supported systems, and collaboration.

The official Slack community for beehiiv creators to exchange insights and growth strategies.

Slack group for independent news publishers to share advice on newsletter business models.

Building a community of no-code people, The Maker School is a place for creators seeking to advance their development skills.