Are you an entrepreneur / Indie Hacker looking for maker communities to join?

Here is a list of communities you possibly don't know about.

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Bootstrapped:

It's a small community of bootstrappers, super friendly. Members make and sell desktop apps, SaaS products, and mobile apps.

Created by @steveofmcleod

https://t.co/6XCBs3Z5Um
MakerLog:

MakerLog is perfect if you want to build in public! It's a big community of 7000 members. Folks post their daily tasks and grow a network of supportive, like-minded people!

Created by @matteing

https://t.co/Q3KI1MLGu3
IndieWorldwide:

It's a community of 1000+ Indiehackers based on Slack, with weekly meetups and 1-to-1 founders meetings as well!
I LOVE meeting new IH every week!

Created by @AnthonyCastrio

https://t.co/Qn2ywuAgrF
Jetpack

It's a community of entrepreneurs, super focus on growth. You'll find some SaaS entrepreneurs, Content Creators, Brand Builders, and also some Agency Owners.

Created by @imsamthompson

https://t.co/FddPGBf9Jx
Nocodefounders

It's a community of #nocode founders (obviously), I think it's the bigger one with almost 7000 members! If you build no-code stuff you should register there!

Created by @joshua_tiernan

https://t.co/576Epb4gPl
WebWide

WebWide is a small community of makers and developers with 2000 members. I love the old school design of it (it's a forum), super effective and the people there are super friendly!

Created by @adam_greenough

https://t.co/QViKPLUzOu
If you want to discover more makers communities, chat groups, or even Facebook groups you can check SpreadTheWorld.

I curated a list of 400+ places to post your startup:

https://t.co/RbuaWF4IWk

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Strong marketing game, super hard work, can stream for 24 hours and currently leading a new streamer movement with the #24hrstartup challenge.
Make it bigger than yourself.
👉 @thepatwalls

Made the awesome
https://t.co/lBYn9nP3KJ which works perfectly and saved me hours and hours.
Make a simple, helpful product.
👉 @gvrizzo

Making the stylish @threader_app looking for maximum integration with Twitter (it might even become part of Twitter one day...)
Raise the bar for quality, look for seamless integrations.
👉 @marie_dm_ + @yesnoornext

Successfully monetized a tiny social network @wip without screwing his users, focusing on the maker community.
A small engaged community is enough.
👉 @marckohlbrugge
What are some things you should *NOT* do as an indie hacker?

I was recently on @ProductHunt Radio (
https://t.co/IuSMrZTaYG) where @Abadesi asked me this question about all sorts of challenges that founders face.

Here are a few of my thoughts…

@Abadesi Don't blindly follow advice without considering the context in which the advice was given (from who, to who, when, for what) and adapting it to fit your personal situation.

E.g. advice that works for a high-growth VC-funded startup might be disastrous to your indie business.

@Abadesi (This applies to any and all advice in life, btw, not just advice for how to start and run a company. It's almost never a good time to turn off your brain and blindly follow what others are saying.)

@Abadesi Don't equate being a founder with being an inventor. It's an analogy that can easily go too far.

You'll end up overvaluing and over-protecting your pet ideas. Or worse, you'll never come up with an idea at all, because you'll assume that it needs to be something completely new.

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Ivor Cummins has been wrong (or lying) almost entirely throughout this pandemic and got paid handsomly for it.

He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...


... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:


Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.

Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9


Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."

I wonder why...

Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x


Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.

Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq
“We don’t negotiate salaries” is a negotiation tactic.

Always. No, your company is not an exception.

A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.

Listen to Aditya


And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.

I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.

You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.

Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]