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Anyone doing "founder hours" / virtual coffees here?

What the title says. How do you guys connect with fellow IHers on a recurrent basis? Is there a group in place that manages this or...?

EDIT: comment below if you'd like to run some form of virtual coffee chats with other founders? maybe we could whip something out.

UPDATE: Partnered up with Stanley to help him run virtual coffees on a Discord server with the help of DailyBot — check out his post: "90% of Indie Hackers fail alone. Here's what we're doing to change that" to understand a bit more about where we're coming from!

on January 11, 2024
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    I'm interested!

    UPDATE:
    Figured since there was demand for this, I'd go ahead and create it

    Tired of hacking solo?

    Let's change that

    Introducing foundermeetup

    Connect with founders, one virtual coffee cup at a time

    https://foundermeetup.dev

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      Great idea but the sign up form doesn't work on Android/Chrome mobile. It won't allow you to insert your email address.

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        Fixed! Some CORs issues just never seem to go away haha

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    I'm very interested! By the way, I've noticed that people often enjoy chatting and socializing on LinkedIn, so if any of you have LinkedIn groups where you frequently participate, feel free to contact me 🙋

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      Partnered up with fellow IHer, Stanley, to see if we could run automatic virtual coffee pair-ups for the ppl under this post, would you like to join?

      Stanley explained a bit more on this post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af
      appreciate any support!

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      If anyone can suggest related indiehacker groups on LinkedIn I would love to join as well!

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        If you're on Discord, we opened an Indie Hacker Coffee Lounge you can join - we'll be doing a test drive there and match fellow IHers under this post there, see more in Stanley's post if you're interested.

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    Hi, that sounds like a really great idea. would love to join too. please keep us posted!

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    I would love to join, too. Thank you for the great idea

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    That’s should be cool

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      If you're still willing to participate, we'd love to have you! See our update post!

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    Sounds interesting! I'm in

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      Appreciate your interest! Partnered up with Stanley (gwszeto) to run coffee chats automatically in a Discord server, see more in his post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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    Sounds like a good idea! I am in!

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      Stanley (gwszeto) and I joined forces to bring this to life! Are you still in? Check out our update post if so: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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      Hey I'm building out foundermeetup.dev to address this issue. Could I DM you to ask you some questions about this?

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          Awesome, let me know if there's a way I can contact you, else you can DM on Twitter

          https://x.com/gwszeto?t=dztRbUT3QmZBVIo81J26GQ&s=09

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    I have been wanting to do this as well. I think on twitter spaces might be a good way. count me in!

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      Stanley (gwszeto) and I joined forces to make it happen! Although we figured we could start an MVP on Discord. Keep in mind we were thinking about 1-1 virtual coffees, so it's like having a pool of founders and automatically pairing people up so they can have random chats and share some cool stories - basically someone different every week or so! Your idea is certainly something to consider as well, we could do monthly spaces or something like that on top of the 1-1 chats?

      Anyway, check out our follow-up post if you're still interested: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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    I'd be interested as well! Maybe we can set up a hacker discord

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      We did! Stanley (gwszeto) and I partnered up to run automatic 1-1 virtual coffees between fellow IHers! Check out our follow-up post if you're still in!

      https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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      I would join the server!

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        We did! Stanley (gwszeto) and I partnered up to run automatic 1-1 virtual coffees between fellow IHers! Check out our follow-up post if you're still in!

        https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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    I would be interested as well

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    Oh! Would love that!

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      Man, we put something together! Are you still interested? If so, check out our follow-up post — Stanley (gwszeto) and I joined up forces to make it happen: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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      Yeah, me too, though I don't know how counterintuitive would be to set up a Discord server or something like that just for this. Maybe something the IH team could add natively?

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        Feel that might be a service you have to pay for

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          DailyBot (my tool) has a native virtual coffee feature for Discord. Quick updaate: partnered up with Stanley (gwszeto) to make this a reality! Are you interested?

          Here's our follow-up post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/90-of-indie-hackers-fail-alone-heres-what-we-re-doing-to-change-that-e8ecb381af

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