Weekend Club is dead. Long live Ramen Club 🍜

Some news: Weekend Club is dead. We're now https://ramenclub.so.

The community, content & tools supporting founders to ramen profitable, and beyond.

Since we ran Saturday IRL co-working sessions for founders back in 2019, our community has evolved considerably.

Many of our early members (many of who I met through local Indie Hackers meetups) have gone on to build successful internet businesses, like VEED, Tiiny Host, Data Fetcher, Indie Bites and many more. 🔥

And like our members, our service evolved too. From just IRL weekend co-working, we added masterminds, founder AMAs, remote co-working (weekdays & weekends), $50k worth of discounts, an active Slack, the list goes on.

It became clear we'd outgrown the 'Weekend Club' name.

Now, great communities have a coherent purpose - which ties into their brand & visual identity.

From conversations with people in and outside the community - it was clear that many people joined for a core reason... support on their journey to become "ramen profitable, and beyond." ✨ http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

As a founder, It's a worthy goal for you starting out. It provides the freedom to be less reliant on a job, savings, family or outside investments.

It's not the end destination, but a critical milestone in achieving freedom and control over your schedule. And it's been very well received by our members, the #RamenGang so far!

So how will we fulfil the vision? Well...

1/ Community 🫂

✅ Active Slack of 90+ founders at different stages
✅ Masterminds with 2-3 others for accountability and deeper bonds
✅ Wednesday/Saturday remote co-working
✅ IRL Saturday co-working at https://thehalley.co.uk in London (Lisbon soon!)

2/ Content 📖

✅ Regular deep-dive posts on topics like ramen profitability, market validation, growth tactics and much more.
✅ Live bi-weekly AMAs with experienced founders like Rosie Sherry, Arvid Kahl & Amar Ghose.
✅ In-house mentorship with our experienced financial, marketing and validation advisors

3/ Tools 🛠️

✅ Community-first product studio (Studio Ramen) building tools for and with our members (with paid gigs). First drop a free 'ramen profitable calculator'.
✅ Daily shipping streaks in Slack via our in-house tool 'PowerUp' to gamify communities.
✅ Much more to come!

Not to mention $50k worth of discounts, and our awesome in-house virtual assistant
Lydia Melvin 🔥

I'm particularly excited about Studio Ramen's potential. https://github.com/studioramen. Many communities have discussed making their own product studio, but few have done so yet.

We're looking to create a best practice template for how to operate these - and have some wild ideas on governance structures and how to best incentivise/involve the community. Stay tuned for more here.

Needless to say, but the roadmap's looking spicy 🥵

A special thanks to all my fellow Ramens aka #RamenGang: our amazing community members and hosts. You know who you all are. Ramen Club is nothing without you all 🍜🍜🍜

This is the most rewarding journey I've been on already, but it still only feels like day 1. I couldn't be more excited for what the next year (or 10) will bring.

If you like what we're doing, here are 3x quick ways you can support us today:

• show us some love on Product Hunt today https://producthunt.com/posts/ramen-club-2
• check our slick new website out https://ramenclub.so (maybe even sign-up? idk 🤪)
• and RT our Twitter thread! https://twitter.com/charlierward/status/1521399183684427777?s=20&t=QYfH_PpwcQ8WXcjQx_ukvA

Big love to the whole Indie Hackers community, Courtland/Channing et al - it's changed the direction of mine and many others lives, long may it continue!

With peace, love & MRR,

Charlie