A curated list of awesome communities related to creating, running and being successful at startups.
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Gen Z VCs slack community: A global collective of 22,000+ Gen Z VCs, founders, angel investors, operators and aspiring VCs… the future of innovation.
Ycombinator: TBD
500 startups: 500 Global is a venture capital firm with $2.4 billion¹ in assets under management that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
RippleX slack server: Community for RippleX 12-week startup program for underrepresented founders and VCs.
Techstars: TBD
DMZ slack server (invite only): Canada's leading startup incubator/accelerator.
YC co-founder matching: Match with co-founders based on your preferences for interests, skills, location, and more, and start building your company.
Founders Exchange discord server: Ask for help, general discussions around business.
Furlough discord server: Wide topic discord server for tech, ecommerce, general business, social-media.
r/Entrepreneur: Wide topic discussion board on reddit for all topics around Entrepreneur.
r/startups: Place to discuss startup problems and solutions.
r/EntrepreneurRideAlong: Solve issues, network without spamming, talk about the growth of your business
Hacker's News: Forum like discussion board, mostly focused on VC backed startups. Moderated by the Ycombinator team.
Lobsters: Similar to Hacker's News, 100% less Ycombinator. propaganda.
everthing marketplaces: Community for marketplace founders & leaders.
Accountability whatsapp group: Daily chats to hold new entrepreneurs accountable.
Stripe discord server: get 1:1 developer help from the stripe's internal dev teams.
OpenAI discord server: Talk about anything gpt related topics, from general discussion to prompt-engineering examples to API dev help.
Retool discord server: No-code app builder. Get help, get news and talk to other builders.
Dev.to: open forum for tech help
Tailwind: Discord server to get help on everything related to tailwind.
Nextjs: Discord server for nextjs help. Nextjs job board: Nextjs help + job board.
Adalo: Build Custom Responsive Apps & Publish Anywhere — No Coding Required
Paid communities are all the rage right now.
Hampton: Private network for high-growth founders, will set you back $8,500/yr but apparently it's already full with over 3,000 applicants.
Chief: Private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
Demandcurve: Newsletter, course, and a legit community of founders/mentors.
Operators guide: One of the best community for builders, a safe space for exclusive talent to conjure, question, and create.
Founders Cafe: For early stage solo(ish) founders who want to raise from top funds like YC.
Helpful local communities for the travelling founders.
Playa del Carmen whatsapp group: Great for digital nomad spending time in PdC. Weekly meetups socializing about variety of startup related topics, ranging from taxes, to founder fireside chats, to deep-tech discussions.
Bogota, Colombia whatsapp group
Medellin, Colombia communities
Braintrust discord server: User-owned talent network. Find jobs, get hired.
a.team: Community of for-hire talents that work together to deliver on great projects.
The Loop slack server: Semi-active channel that curates jobs across the industry, and connects investors, founders and developers.
Go slack server: Get Go announcements, get help on dev, find contrats/full-time jobs.
Toronto JS slack server: Ask for help, talk about JS community in Toronto, find jobs.
YCombinator startup job board Work at ycombinator startup job board
Who's hiring? Posted to hacker's news every start of the month, includes both full-time and contractor roles.
OnDeck: curated community designed to increase the odds of building a successful venture-backed company.
r/ExperiencedFounders: Curated community of experienced founders who shares their experience and have in-depth discussions.
Product Hunt: Get "hunted", get "upvotes", Brag about your "#1 on product hunt" badge on your marketing site.
the hive index: curated list of top online communities. gummysearch: search and get stats on trending subreddits. flyertalk: Jan Koum first pitched Whatsapp back in 2007 to the community, how cool is this?
if anyone have experience with the following list of job boards, please help me add a description and honest review, there are a lot of these things around and I don't want to be recommending bad ones.
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