Show IH: Mastermind Groups for Indie Hackers

Hello Indie Hackers 👋

I'm launching Indie Masterminds.

A mastermind program for bootstrapped founders, creators, makers.

The idea for mastermind groups first occurred to me when I started doing it with a friend 3 months ago.

Major benefits:

• Support and help
• Accountability
• And brutally honest feedback

(I know I need it 😅)

Joining a paid group makes sense because:

• People who are serious about their business self select into it.

• Most "free" communities have become promotion zones, hard to find valuable interactions.

• Keeps you accountable to take positive action. You have skin in the game.

I'm structuring them as small groups of 4 founders each.

• Meeting once a week for 4 weeks.
• Facilitated Zoom calls with 1 hot seat every week.
• On the hot seat we take the biggest challenges/problems/ideas of 1 person and the whole group brainstorms on it together.
• Members closely work together to grow together, share honest feedback and advise to each other.

This makes sure that everyone has their own "personal advisory board". More than 4 people can feel like a crowd, and less can feel like the group isn't diverse enough.

A mastermind group is a great tool for every stage of your entrepreneurship journey:

• Full time job but starting a side hustle
• Pre-idea stage, market research, validating demand
• Building distribution (an audience, a newsletter, waitlist, etc.)
• Already have an idea, building product, talking to users.
• < $100 revenue
• $100 - $1000 revenue
• $1000+ revenue

And it can work for most business models:

• SaaS business
• Content business
• Service business

Groups will be formed based on their business model and entrepreneurship stage. All members will be just 1 step ahead or behind each other in their journey.

I think this is the best way to learn and grow together.

(Someone called it YC groups for bootstrapped founders 😅)

Also - no recurring costs.

Most free communities these days have become promotion zones.

And the recurring costs of paid communities start to add up very quickly.

So we need a middle path - To get the most value without getting burdened by the cost.

I think this is the solution.

For the July masterminds, 2 groups are already full (I launched last week on Twitter and got a great response there)

There is space for 1 more group (4 people)

If you want to get the early bird discount, then make sure you go via this link.

Let me know if you have any questions/doubts/comments.

Cheers,
Ayush 🙏