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Any small indie hacker communities around that hang out on Discord, Slack, etc?

I've never really been one for socializing through forums, and the personal brand building that everyone does on Twitter isn't really my thing.

Are there any smaller, organic, somewhat active communities that hang out in Discord, Slack, or something with indie hackers who just hang out and shoot the shit about ideas, what they're working on, or other random topics? It'd be cool to find some friends in this space to talk to and hang out with regularly.

on August 8, 2022
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    I run Indiependent (https://twitter.com/indiependenthq) on Slack, it has a slight twist to it that people have to participate...or you get kicked.

    The result is that the culture there is super helpful and supportive.

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      I'm brand new to being an indie hacker, but know Rosie and her excellent community work, so joining Indiependent was a no brainer (-:

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    There are two ways this plays out in my experience (I've tried a bunch of them over the years):

    • Someone starts a new forum or slack group and badly moderates it, or doesn't act as a gatekeepers and they end up with like 30k people in there who basically only turn up to drop links to their content.
    • Someone starts a private paid-only members club, but half the people regret joining and get no value from it and don't renew the next year. There's constant chatter between new joiners, the community founder, and maybe a handful of regulars.

    I'm sure there are examples where this isn't true, but that's what I've found time and again.

    @mathew_ send me and email, or DM on twitter. I was thinking it might nice to make a little cohort of like 10 people how just have a super small slack group (or whatever tool you prefer) - could even timebox it to 3 months, at which stage it could dissolve if it's not worked for everyone.

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      Thankyou. Yes, we have an amazing community at Micro SaaS HQ and the ecosystem also helps you getting started with a lot of reports/content.

      It's more of an ecosystem for Micro SaaS builders than just being a community.

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      Hmm, what's the community like there? I'm not above paying for access to a great community, but I'd imagine something like that is a bit more transactional than I'm looking for.

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    I cannot recommend the Indiependent community enough. After a very long time, I actually want to spend time hanging out in and contributing to a community.

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    Hey Mathew,

    I am building a small community of active people (5) that build side projects together. We are currently building two projects together and are looking for more. It's still in its early stages and if you are interested this is the link to the community hub https://join.slack.com/t/corenetworkgroup/shared_invite/zt-1e7axgqds-r56XhbYeOOfCbcjAaZy5LQ

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      Hey Thystler, im building Tiny Acquisitions, and just created tinyacademy.io ... What is your twitter i wanna talk!

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    There definitely are.

    To get into the smaller private communities you typically need to know someone already in the community and be invited.

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