Awesome Startup Communities

A curated list of awesome communities related to creating, running and being successful at startups.

The rating system

Rating	Description.
	Unrated.
🌶️	Good knowledge base, infrequent job postings
🌶️🌶️	Engineers / founders actively seeking advice, occassional job postings
🌶️🌶️🌶️	Frequent job postings and lively discussions
💵	Confirmed contract (me or others)

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Contents

• Awesome Startup Communities
  • Contents
  • Accelerators & VCs
  • Finding a co-founder
  • General chat
  • Tech Help
  • No code
  • Paid
  • Digital Nomad
  • Job boards
  • Curated
  • Show off
  • Bonus
  • Need description

Accelerators

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.

Finding a co-founder

YC co-founder matching 🌶️: Match with co-founders based on your preferences for interests, skills, location, and more, and start building your company.

General chat

Unicorn Embassy: International community for emigrant tech founders, with active chapters in 8 cities (Yerevan, Tbilisi, Belgrade, Dubai, Istanbul, Barcelona, Valencia, Bali). 150+ events: pitch sessions, masterminds, founder dinners. Bilingual EN/RU. Free.

Rands leadership slack server 🌶️🌶️🌶️: Invite only, wide range of topics that cover leadership & tech.

Furlough discord server: Wide topic discord server for tech, ecommerce, general business, social-media.

r/Agency discord server 🌶️: r/Agency discord server for all agency founders.

r/saas 💵: Place to discuss SaaS 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.

Tech help

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.

Nuxt 🌶️: Discord server for nuxtjs help.

No code

Adalo: Build Custom Responsive Apps & Publish Anywhere — No Coding Required

Paid

Paid communities are all the rage right now.

Tribe 💵: $200/month cost, imho one of the best community for SMB/agency/PE buyers. I've landed multiple projects from the members here from referrals.

Kizuna discord 🌶️: Invitation only community for discussion about business, marketing, sales, storytelling.

Digital Nomad

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

Job boards

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.

Curated

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.

Show off

Product Hunt: Get "hunted", get "upvotes", Brag about your "#1 on product hunt" badge on your marketing site.

VibeHacker: Product discovery community for AI builders and vibe coders — directory, reviews, discussions, and launches.

CodeTrendy: Startup discovery directory where founders list SaaS, AI and developer tools to get in front of developers, founders and investors.

RadarMakers: Free launchpad for indie makers. Products get upvotes, comments, and ratings on idea, execution, design, and value.

Bonus

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?

Need description

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.

toptal

gun.io

js chimp

remoteok

weworkremotely

rails jobs

python jobs

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