What are the most successful paid communities?

Interesting. Trends were focused on being a newsletter (over a community) just a couple months ago.

There is:

• Farnam St.
• Lenny's Newsletter, a newsletter with community aspects
• Ministry of Testing which I founded and no longer run day to day is community/membership based (pre-covid it was a mixture of membership + events, now it is all focused in on membership)
• The likes of Dribbble is a paid community.
• Smart Passive Income launched one recently
• There are also niche and smaller attempts. Foundersummit.co, NessLabs and Interintellect

Membership sites have existed for years, I think the tech is generally (and slowly) getting better for it.

I would love to hear of more examples.

Lenny's Newsletter is a great paid newsletter, as @rosiesherry already mentioned!

I'd also add that Dave Gerhardt's (CMO at Privvy and formerly Drift) has a great one: https://www.patreon.com/davegerhardt

Same with John Bonini's Some Good Content community: https://www.patreon.com/somegoodcontent

Interested in hearing what other paid communities everyone knows of!

I'm not sure if anyone knows about Stratechery here. It is a great strategy, tech, geo-politics website cum newsletter to subscribe to.